Description

Job Type: Full Time

Salary Range: $125,000-$145,000

We Provide

• Full benefits package for full-time employees
• Retirement savings plan
• Exciting, supportive and fun work environment
• Family and friends discounts on travel, tech, food, beverage, and fitness
• Development and training opportunities

The Position

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing practical, secure, and scalable technology solutions that enable Gateway Casinos & Entertainment’s business outcomes. This role partners with business and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into end-to-end solution designs across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, and security.

The Solutions Architect provides expert hands-on architectural leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle—supporting planning, guiding implementation teams, ensuring solutions align with organizational standards, and enabling smooth transition to operations within a highly available and regulated gaming and hospitality environment.

Key Responsibilities 

Solution Architecture & Delivery

• Lead solution architecture for assigned programs and projects, from early discovery through implementation and stabilization.
• Translate business requirements into clear solution designs, including application components, integrations, data flows, security controls, infrastructure needs, and anticipated future requirements.
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts (e.g., solution overviews, logical designs, integration diagrams, and non-functional requirements).

Options, Trade-offs & Decision Support

• Evaluate solution options and recommend approaches that balance value, cost, delivery speed, risk, and operational supportability.
• Identify dependencies, constraints, and architectural risks early, and drive mitigation plans with delivery teams.

Integration & Cross-Domain Alignment

• Design integration patterns and interfaces across platforms and vendors, ensuring solutions work cohesively across the environment.
• Collaborate with SMEs to align designs to standards, reduce technical debt, and reuse shared capabilities where possible.

Security, Reliability & Compliance

• Ensure solutions meet required controls for cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, disaster recovery, and audit/regulatory obligations.
• Incorporate non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, monitoring, logging, and operational support into solution designs.

Implementation Guidance & Quality

• Provide expert hands-on technical guidance to infrastructure and partners during build and deployment to ensure solutions are implemented as intended.
• Lead and/or participate in design reviews, validate key technical deliverables, and support troubleshooting of complex issues during delivery.

Operational Readiness

• Work with IT operations/support teams to ensure smooth handover: support models, runbooks, monitoring, training, and documentation.
• Ensure solutions are maintainable and supportable, with clear ownership and lifecycle considerations.

What You Bring  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, senior engineering, or technical lead roles delivering enterprise solutions.
• Experience working with vendors/third parties and evaluating solutions.
• Experience in regulated environments (gaming, hospitality, financial services, or similar) is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end solutions across applications, data, integration, infrastructure (cloud & on-prem), and security.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modern architectural patterns (cloud, hybrid, microservices, integration platforms).
• Strong stakeholder management skills, capable of gaining support from senior tech stakeholders and guiding broader project teams through complex transitions.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on, pragmatic decision-making.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build consensus at all levels of a global organization.
• Infrequent travel to company sites may be necessary.
• Flexibility to work occasional time periods outside standard day hours.

Who We Are

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited (“Gateway”) is one of the largest and most diversified gaming and entertainment companies in Canada with 31 gaming properties in British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta. Across its entire portfolio, Gateway currently employs approximately 7,200 people and features approximately 391 table games (including 31 poker tables), 14,288 slots, 81 food and beverage outlets and 564 hotel rooms.

Gateway has been in the business of gaming and entertainment in Canada for more than thirty years and continues to evolve and expand its renowned offerings, including developing casino and restaurant brands. The Gateway to Your Future starts with us.

Gateway celebrates and empowers our team members, who make it all possible. A career at Gateway means working with great people, being recognized for your unique contribution and career advancement opportunities across our 31 locations. Our employees thrive with ongoing training and leadership programs while working in a dynamic and fun environment. See for yourself what it’s like to be on a team that values your vision, skill and energy.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. 

Gateway does not utilize any form of artificial intelligence (AI) in the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants.