Solutions Architect - Toronto - AIP Connect

Description

Our client is an award-winning, AI-powered documentation platform that is fundamentally transforming documents into data across critical banking processes like trading and lending.

We are seeking a Sr Manager, Technical Solutions / Solutions Architect to lead a small but high-performing team responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing client integrations with our client's SaaS platform.

This role will serve as the technical backbone of our client's services organization, ensuring enterprise customers in the financial sector achieve successful, scalable, and secure implementations.

The ideal candidate blends deep technical acumen with strong communication and leadership skills—able to translate complex business requirements into practical, high-quality technical solutions. This leader will partner closely with clients, Professional Services, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams to drive successful outcomes while building scalable processes for the future.

This is your opportunity to join a highly respected, high-growth company at the intersection of FinTech and AI, where your work will have a direct impact on global banking efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Solution Design
• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of enterprise-level customer integrations, ensuring smooth onboarding and adoption of the SaaS platform.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor for senior customer stakeholders, providing strategic guidance and solutions that align with both business goals and technical realities.
• Oversee solutioning activities leveraging APIs, BI tools, databases (SQL), and integration technologies to meet complex customer requirements.
• Act as a strategic bridge between business and technical teams, translating business objectives into clear, actionable solution architectures.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to ensure the team can deliver effectively using existing product capabilities, escalating only when novel or complex needs require deeper development involvement.
• Operational & Technical Excellence
• Champion operational excellence across client technical engagements by implementing process improvements, version control, and scalable delivery methodologies.
• Promote best practices for safe, sustainable technology use, including in-house data query management, environment versioning, and quality assurance of client configurations.
• Work cross-functionally to improve triage and prioritization processes for technical requests, balancing responsiveness with strategic focus.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a technically fluent team capable of independent problem-solving and confident exploration of new tools and platforms.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability, and structured experimentation, encouraging team members to navigate ambiguity and uncover the right solutions.
• Model an adaptable mindset — emphasizing learning, iteration, and collaboration in fast-changing client and technical contexts.

Stakeholders

• Head of Client Services: the manager and ultimate responsible to drive overall client success and solution delivery excellence.
• Professional Services & Customer Success: to ensure end-to-end client delivery and adoption.
• Engineering & Product Teams: to align client solutions with platform capabilities and future roadmap.
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO): to maintain technical integrity and ensure scalability and compliance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, or integration leadership within SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong background in API integration, databases (SQL), data pipelines, and business intelligence tools.
• Experience working with financial institutions or highly regulated clients strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to translate business problems into technical solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing small, high-impact technical teams.
• Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and organizational skills, with a hands‑on approach and curiosity for figuring things out.
• Familiarity with change control, versioning, and operational governance practices.

Why Join?

• Cutting-Edge Technology: Work on a platform recognized for its innovative use of AI in the banking sector.
• Proven Success & Growth: Recently completed a Series B funding round led by notable investors, signifying rapid expansion and stability.
• Industry Recognition: Our client has been named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in AI for Banking, a CB Insights Global Top 100 Most Promising FinTech (2024), and a Global Top 100 Most Promising AI Startup (2023), among other accolades.
• Global Reach: While headquartered in Toronto, our client has a growing global footprint with operations in New York and London.

Posted Salary: $180,000 – $190,000 a year

Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on job‑related skills, relevant experience, education, and training. This range reflects base salary only and does not include eligibility for bonus program or other benefits.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology, Consulting, and Management
• IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Business Consulting and Services

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