Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior Cloud Solution Architect
Location: Ottawa, ON
Duration: 12+ Months
Pay rate: C$100 to C$110

Introduction

The consultant will play a pivotal role in overseeing the core technology services solution architecture activities for a new back-office system program, ensuring effective coordination across various technical teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications (Must-have qualifications that candidates must meet to be considered)

• Canadian Federal Government Security Clearance – Reliability Status
• University degree or college diploma in computer science or a related discipline
• A minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated experience in information technology, with at least 5 years of experience in Solution Architecture supporting complex enterprise technology environments
• A minimum of five (5) years of recent demonstrated experience architecting and delivering cloud-native and container-based solutions using Azure, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift, and/or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing Azure IaaS infrastructure, networking, security, data protection, and workload portability solutions

Preferred Skills & Qualifications (Nice-to-have skills but are not required)

• Demonstrated experience architecting highly available, resilient, and scalable multi-site, multi-region, and multi-cloud solutions
• Experience applying cloud financial management (FinOps) principles, cost optimization strategies, governance practices, and risk management
• Experience supporting the full system development lifecycle (SDLC) and resolving complex technical risks, issues, and dependencies

Day-to-Day Responsibilities (key tasks and expectations for the role)

• Oversee the solution architecture activities ensuring effective coordination across cloud, container, database, integration, security, and operations teams
• Develop, maintain, and govern the end-to-end Solution Architecture Document (SAD) and architecture decision records
• Facilitate architecture reviews, technical assessments, risk identification, and governance activities
• Ensure solution delivery alignment across Azure, OpenShift, SQL, IBM MQ, networking, security, and observability workstreams
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, project teams, platform services, and engineering teams

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.