Senior Solution Architect - Data & AI

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

We're looking for a Senior Solution Data & AI Architect to join our growing team!

• Lead the architecture and design of Data, AI, and GenAI solutions supporting strategic business initiatives.
• Create solution architectures, architecture blueprints, design patterns, and implementation roadmaps that guide delivery teams from concept to production.
• Ensure architectures are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise technology standards.
• Translate business requirements into practical, actionable solution designs.

• Drive adoption of modern architectural approaches including cloud-native, event-driven, API-first, and serverless patterns where appropriate.
• Design AI and machine learning architectures, orchestration, deployment, serving, monitoring, and governance capabilities.
• Help define reusable platform services, reference architectures, and technical standards that accelerate delivery across multiple products.
• Assess emerging technologies, industry trends, and market solutions to identify opportunities that create business value.

• Partner closely with product, engineering, data, security, and platform teams to guide architecture decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Lead architecture discussions with senior technology and business leaders and help shape strategic technology decisions.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and provide architectural oversight for complex initiatives.
• Help teams navigate technical trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and implementation challenges.
• Promote engineering excellence and architectural consistency while enabling teams to innovate.

• Contribute to architecture governance, principles, standards, and best practices across the Data and AI ecosystem.
• Foster alignment across multiple product teams through reusable patterns, reference architectures, common services, and shared architectural approaches that accelerate delivery while reducing complexity.
• Lead technology assessments, proof of concepts, and build-versus-buy evaluations to support strategic technology decisions and platform investments.
• Perform risk assessments and build-versus-buy analyses and provide recommendations to stakeholders.

• Coach and mentor architects, engineers, and technical leaders.
• Advocate for architecture quality, simplicity, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Build strong partnerships across teams and help create a collaborative architecture community.
• Act as a trusted advisor who can challenge assumptions and guide teams toward better outcomes.

• 10+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data-driven solutions in cloud environments.
• Track record of successfully leading architecture for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country. 
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.

• Experience designing modern Data and AI architectures
• Strong understanding of data platform architecture, data integration patterns, and large-scale data processing.
• Experience defining architecture patterns for AI and ML solutions, including experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and operationalization.
• Familiarity with GenAI architectures, orchestration frameworks, retrieval patterns, AI agents, and model integration approaches.
• Experience with AWS SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, LangChain and LangGraph, Snowflake.

• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, MLOps, observability, and automation practices.

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong experience working with Agile product and delivery teams.
• Natural collaborator who enjoys mentoring others and building consensus around architectural direction.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.
• Ability to balance business value, technical excellence, cost, risk, and delivery objectives.

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We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

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