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Solutions Architect
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Montreal, , Canada
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Job Description
Company Montreal, an industry leading developer of video games, located in the heart of Montreal’s Mile-End, offers a unique environment where creativity, teamwork and cutting-edge technology bring to life critically acclaimed video games and iconic AAA franchises.
When you join Ubi Montreal, you enter a community of passionate, extraordinary people connected by their need to innovate, to be creative and to work with the latest technology. You’ll discover a world where employees enjoy constant career advancement, a supportive learning environment, and competitive compensation packages.
Summary
The solutions architect is responsible for evaluating distributed architectures with a particular focus on databases, identifying physical and virtual hardware needs, designing systems based on internal or 3rd party technologies, while maximizing maintainability and cost-effectiveness. He/she is also involved in the research and development of new technologies to further the company objectives.
Mission
Reporting into Company’s Global IT group, the solutions architect partners with stakeholders both inside and outside the group (either game development teams or middleware developers). The main tasks include:
• Review and validate solutions based on several SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Validate proposed architectures to maximize maintainability and cost-effectiveness.
• Propose improvements and amendments when appropriate.
• Work together with partners to define purchase plans for both physical and virtual resources.
• Participate in peer reviews and other knowledge exchange initiatives.
• Participate in the creation, evolution and enforcement of internal standards.
• Follow internal processes on change management and incident resolution.
• Prepare and present communication material mainly for technical audiences.
• Evaluate technologies for company-wide adoption.
• Act as a senior technology advisor for other teams.
Qualifications
Education
BA, BSc in Computer Science or equivalent title.
Experience
• 5+ years of experience in solution design
• Provable experience in a variety of technologies and providers among the following sets:
1. Chef, SaltStack, Ansible
2. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure
3. MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop
4. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ
• Extensive NoSQL database experience is a preferential skill.
Skills and Knowledge
• Extensive knowledge in the field of databases, automation and configuration management.
• Fast learning
• Team player
• Strong motivation to improve oneself and others
• Good ability to communicate both in written and verbal form
• Bilingualism (French-English, spoken and written)
Additional Information
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.