Technology Architecture
Design the technical foundation behind products, platforms and enterprise systems.
- Enterprise & solution architecture
- Cloud & integration architecture
- API strategy
- Modernization, scalability & security
Senior Technology Architecture & Advisory
Technology has become too important to get wrong.
Senior technology architecture and CTO/CIO advisory for organizations navigating complex products, platforms, data, AI, integrations and technology decisions.
We help leadership teams understand what they have, determine what they actually need, design the right architecture, and turn it into an executable plan. When execution capacity is required, our delivery arm through Rubicon MicroProducts can help build it.
Architecture · CTO/CIO Advisory · Data · AI · Cloud · Platforms · Integrations · Technology Transformation
The problem
When technology gets complicated, someone needs to see the whole system.
Our role is to create clarity before more technology gets added.
Organizations usually call us when one or more of these things are happening:
01
The platform has grown faster than its architecture.
02
Major decisions are being made without an experienced technical executive.
03
Teams and vendors are working without coherent technical direction.
04
Scaling, integration, security or operationalization is getting difficult.
05
Data exists everywhere but is difficult to trust or use.
06
AI initiatives need to move from experimentation to production.
07
Modernization needs an architecture before implementation begins.
08
Technical debt is slowing products or business operations.
09
A CTO or CIO perspective is needed without another full-time executive.
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Investors or leaders need an independent technical assessment.
What we do
Senior technical leadership where architecture meets the business.
Fractional CTO / CIO Advisory
Senior technology leadership without requiring a full-time executive hire.
- Technology strategy & roadmaps
- Engineering organization review
- Build vs buy & vendor decisions
- Executive, board & diligence support
Data & AI Architecture
Turn fragmented data and AI initiatives into an architecture that can operate in production.
- Data platforms & lakehouses
- Data Vault & semantic models
- AI/ML architecture
- Governance & production integration
Product & Platform Architecture
Help product organizations move from feature development to sustainable platform engineering.
- SaaS & multi-tenant platforms
- Platform decomposition
- API ecosystems & workflows
- Performance & scalability
Integration & Enterprise Systems
Create an architecture across systems that were never originally designed to work together.
- ERP & CRM integration
- Healthcare interoperability
- Identity & payment platforms
- Event-driven architecture
Technology Assessment & Rescue
Independent technical review when something is expensive, delayed, unstable or difficult to understand.
- Architecture & technical debt assessment
- Platform health review
- Vendor & infrastructure review
- Remediation roadmap
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How healthy is your technology architecture?
Ten questions, an instant scorecard, and the areas to fix first. Or read our ERP, CPQ & CRM RFI checklist.
Focused advisory
Four focused ways to work with senior architects.
Independent architecture advice for enterprise software selection, AI initiatives and existing environments — plus lower-cost support for the legacy and SaaS systems you already depend on.
Enterprise software selection
RFI advisory for CPQ, ERP, MRP & CRM
Before issuing an RFI or choosing a vendor, define the operating requirements and architecture the solution must satisfy. We help compare responses against real workflows, integration needs, migration risk and total implementation effort.
- Requirements & evaluation criteria
- Vendor demonstrations & architecture fit
- Decision record & implementation roadmap
From experiment to production
AI/ML advisory: GenAI, ML & API-first
Choose useful generative AI and machine learning applications, then design the data, advanced computing and API-first architecture needed to operate them. We assess quality, governance, cost and integration before a pilot becomes a production dependency.
- Use-case & model evaluation
- Data, compute & API architecture
- Production controls & delivery roadmap
Fixed price · two weeks
Architecture assessment, CAD $12,000
A senior read of your architecture in two weeks: current-state map, risks, realistic options and a sequenced roadmap — delivered as one decision package with a known scope and a known price.
- Current-state map & risk register
- Target options with trade-offs
- 30/90/180-day roadmap
Legacy apps · SaaS takeover
Legacy application support & SaaS takeover
We take over support of legacy applications and third-party SaaS systems for far less than traditional maintenance contracts — using hyperautomation and deep cloud, architecture and SDLC experience to keep them stable, secure and improving.
- Structured knowledge transfer & takeover
- Automated testing, deployment & monitoring
- Lower run cost, with a modernization path
Industries
Architecture is strongest when it understands the industry around the technology.
Our advisory work is concentrated where systems, data, integrations and operational workflows are complex.
Healthcare, MedTech & Social Services
Architecture for environments where technology must connect clinical, operational, regulatory and human workflows.
FHIR-oriented architecturesClinical and operational dataAI-enabled medical technologyCase, workflow and identity platforms
Manufacturing & Industrial Technology
Architecture connecting engineering, equipment, operations, product data and enterprise systems.
Manufacturing platformsIndustrial analyticsERP and cloud modernizationIoT and product configuration
FinTech, Payments & Financial Platforms
Architecture for systems where transaction integrity, data, integrations and operational controls matter.
Lending and underwritingPayment rails & ACH / PADReconciliation and workflowsFinancial data and decisioning
SaaS & Complex Digital Platforms
Architecture for software companies moving from application development toward scalable product platforms.
Multi-tenancy and identityBilling and APIsWorkflow engines and analyticsAI-enabled product capabilities
Case studies
Real projects, described honestly.
Anonymized client work — the problem, the decisions and what changed.
Manufacturing / Industrial Equipment / HVAC
From engineering calculations to a digital industrial product platform
Turning pump-selection engineering logic into reusable services that feed web applications, quotations and enterprise systems.
Read the case studyFinTech / Alternative Lending
Architecting a financial data platform for faster, better-informed underwriting
A reusable data foundation that turns inconsistent banking, accounting and commerce records into usable underwriting information.
Read the case studyEnterprise / Manufacturing / Data-Intensive Organizations
Creating a governed enterprise data architecture from fragmented systems
Data Vault and semantic models that bring consistency, history and traceability to data scattered across ERP, operational and legacy systems.
Read the case studySocial Services / Financial Operations / SaaS
Designing consistent billing and payment workflows across disconnected systems
Clarifying ownership, lifecycle and reconciliation for childcare billing that spans an operational SaaS platform, third-party invoicing and bank payment files.
Read the case studyManufacturing / Industrial Technology
Bridging industrial operations and enterprise software
Connecting ERP, engineering, product data and operational workflows in manufacturing — without adding another layer of fragmentation.
Read the case studyExample problems
The kinds of architecture problems we are brought in to solve.
Not client stories — concrete examples of the situations we work on in each industry. If one of these looks familiar, we can probably help.
A care platform that outgrew its integrations
A healthcare services platform connects to EHRs, lab systems and partner portals through a tangle of point-to-point integrations. Every new partner takes months, data quality is inconsistent, and nobody can say exactly where patient data flows.
- The work: Map the actual data flows and integration surface, define a target integration architecture with clear ownership and audit trails, and sequence the migration so clinical operations are never at risk.
- The direction: A platform where adding a partner is a configuration exercise, not a project — and where compliance questions have concrete answers.
A payments product hitting its scaling ceiling
A payments platform built for an early market is now processing volumes its original architecture never anticipated. Settlement jobs overlap, reconciliation is partly manual, and every change to the core ledger carries risk nobody has fully quantified.
- The work: Assess the ledger, settlement and reconciliation architecture against real throughput and correctness requirements, identify the failure modes that matter, and design an evolution path that does not require a rewrite.
- The direction: A core that scales with transaction volume, with reconciliation and auditability built in rather than bolted on.
A SaaS product slowed down by its own success
A multi-tenant SaaS platform has accumulated years of features on an early-stage foundation. Release cycles are stretching, enterprise customers are asking for isolation and controls the architecture cannot offer, and the engineering team is split between firefighting and roadmap.
- The work: Evaluate the tenancy model, data architecture and deployment pipeline against where the business is going, then define a modernization roadmap that separates quick structural wins from deeper platform work.
- The direction: An architecture that supports enterprise requirements and lets the team ship again — sequenced so the business keeps moving while the foundation improves.
Every engagement starts from your actual systems, constraints and economics — not a template. These examples show the shape of the work, not a fixed package.
Architecture + delivery
Advice is more useful when someone can actually execute it.
Most advisory firms stop at recommendations. GetArchitect has access to a mature engineering and R&D delivery organization through Rubicon MicroProducts.
An engagement can stop after architecture and advisory — or continue directly into implementation.
GetArchitect
Direction
- Executive technology advisory
- Architecture & solution design
- Roadmap & governance
- Technology assessment
Rubicon MicroProducts
Execution
- Software, cloud & data engineering
- AI/ML engineering & integrations
- DevOps, QA & modernization
- Product development & support
Business Problem
Architecture
Roadmap
Delivery
Production
There is no requirement to use Rubicon for implementation.
We can remain an independent advisor to your team or vendors. But when execution capacity is the constraint, we can move into delivery without spending months assembling another team.
How we work
Start with the problem, not a consulting package.
Understand
We start with the business objective, existing technology, constraints, people and economics.
Diagnose
We identify architecture problems, dependencies, technical risks and decision points.
Design
We define the target architecture, priorities, roadmap and practical next steps.
Execute or Advise
Your team, existing vendors, or Rubicon can implement the plan.
Engagements can range from a few focused advisory sessions to an ongoing fractional CTO/CIO relationship or a full architecture-and-delivery program.
Engagement types
Engage us at the level you actually need.
Architecture Session
For a defined architecture or technology decision.
Architecture review · vendor decision · modernization · AI architecture · build vs buy · platform design
Technology Assessment
A structured review of an existing technology environment.
Current state · risks · architecture observations · priorities · target state · implementation roadmap
Fractional CTO / CIO
Ongoing senior technology leadership without a full-time executive hire.
Roadmap ownership · governance · vendor management · engineering oversight · board and investor support
Architecture + Delivery
Architecture and implementation handled together.
GetArchitect leads architecture and technical direction while Rubicon provides engineering capacity.
Who we work with
Designed for situations where the technology decision matters.
CEOs & Founders
Technology is critical, but no senior technical leader is in the room.
CTOs & CIOs
An independent architect or additional senior capacity is needed.
Product & Engineering
A platform needs modernization, scaling or direction.
Investors & Operators
Technical diligence or portfolio-company support is required.
Enterprise Leaders
Transformation crosses systems, vendors, data and functions.
Why GetArchitect
Architecture without theatre.
Business before technology
Architecture exists to support an operating model, product or business outcome.
Independent thinking
We are comfortable recommending less technology or challenging an implementation.
Architecture that can be built
Recommendations must survive engineering, budgets, existing systems and production.
Senior people stay involved
Architecture and technical direction are led by experienced practitioners.
Delivery is available, not mandatory
Use your team, your vendors, or ours.
About
Built from years of actually building systems.
GetArchitect is led by technology executives and architects with hands-on experience designing, operating and modernizing complex technology environments.
Our work spans architecture, software engineering, cloud, data, AI, enterprise systems, integration, security and technology operations — across healthcare, MedTech, social services, manufacturing, industrial technology, FinTech, payments and SaaS.
Unlike advisory practices built primarily around management consulting, our background comes from designing and delivering production systems.
Through Rubicon MicroProducts, a Canadian IT services and product company, we also have access to a multidisciplinary R&D and engineering organization when implementation support is required.
Where we work
Based in Ontario, Canada · engaged worldwide
Mississauga, Ontario
Head office · primary delivery base in the Greater Toronto Area
Aurora, Ontario
Second Ontario location serving clients across the region
Global / Remote
Distributed teams beyond Canada — remote, and on site when it matters
Experience
A timeline of real work.
No inflated numbers, no borrowed logos — the work below is what our team has actually designed, built or rescued.
2011
Began delivering custom software and enterprise integration work for clients in financial services and manufacturing.
2014
Expanded into data warehousing, governance and analytics platforms across enterprise data sources.
2017
Took on healthcare and social-services systems — patient data, consent, and integration with clinical and administrative platforms.
2020
Built automation and low-code delivery practices (RPA, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, PowerBI) alongside cloud work on AWS and Azure.
2023
Launched our own products — Fundue and Data Mountain — small, focused tools for complex business use cases.
Today
GetArchitect formalizes the advisory side: senior architecture and technology leadership, with Rubicon MicroProducts available for delivery.
Real projects
The kind of systems we have actually worked on.
FinTech & Payments
Digital banking and secure payment systems operating in regulated environments, where ledgers, reconciliation and auditability are non-negotiable.
Healthcare & Social Services
Systems that handle patient data and consent, integrate with clinical and administrative platforms, and support care delivery operations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industry 4.0 work — automation, IoT integration and data analytics on production floors and supply chains.
Enterprise Platforms
Customization and integration of Dynamics, SAP, Salesforce and Infor — the systems companies actually run on.
Data & Analytics
Data warehousing, governance and self-service analytics platforms built across fragmented enterprise data sources.
Our Own Products
Fundue and Data Mountain — products we designed, built and operate ourselves, not just slides about other people's systems.
Client names and confidential details are shared in conversation, not on a public website.
Who we are
Practitioners, not a brand.
Senior technology leaders and architects
GetArchitect is organized by a small group of senior technology leaders and architects who have spent their careers on both sides of the executive technology role: CTO (software, engineering, architecture, data, AI and delivery) and CIO (enterprise systems, ERP, integrations, infrastructure, security and transformation).
The same practitioners who assess your situation stay involved through recommendations and delivery. We do not hand engagements to junior staff, and we introduce the specific people who would work with you before any engagement begins.
We keep names off the public site deliberately: our work is with confidential systems and regulated environments, and we would rather earn trust in a first conversation than through a profile page.
- TOGAF certified architects
- Certified cloud architects
- Hands-on ERP and CRM delivery
- AI and data platform experience
AI architecture assessment
Turn a complicated situation into a useful first brief.
Describe the situation in your own words. You’ll receive an initial executive readout, likely architecture concerns, critical questions, and practical next priorities.
Use operational detail, not confidential data.
The brief is directional and based only on what you provide. It does not replace technical diligence.
A useful first conversation
Have a technology decision that is getting expensive to postpone?
A first conversation is simply to understand what you are trying to solve and determine whether we can be useful. No long discovery process. No obligation.
Book an intro
Thirty minutes to understand the problem.
Good topics for a first conversation:
- Architecture problem
- Modernization initiative
- Fractional CTO/CIO need
- Data or AI initiative
- Product architecture
- Technical assessment
- Vendor or platform decision
- Difficult integration
Tell us when suits you
Send the short form with a preferred time — we reply personally to confirm a thirty-minute call.
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