AWS Solution Architect

Category: Architecture

Main location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto

Position ID:J0526-1715

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or Client office at a minimum 2 days per week - subject to change at any time.

Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient AWS cloud solutions to support modernization and migration initiatives within the banking domain.
• Define end-to-end cloud architectures and migration strategies, including re-hosting, re-platforming, and re-architecting, while ensuring alignment with business, technical, security, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with client architects, development, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to establish best practices for cloud-native applications, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), automation, and operational excellence.
• Develop architecture blueprints, high-level design documents, and technical roadmaps while providing leadership across infrastructure, application, and data modernization workstreams.
• Implement AWS security, networking, and data strategies in compliance with enterprise standards and regulatory frameworks such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2.
• Conduct architecture reviews, identify optimization opportunities, recommend AWS-native solutions for scalability and cost efficiency, and support technical solutioning, proposal development, and mentoring of project teams on AWS best practices.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• 10+ years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud architecture, solution design, and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with Node.js-based application architecture and development, with the ability to design and support cloud-native and microservices-based solutions on AWS. Node.js expertise is the primary requirement; experience with Python or Java is an added advantage.
• Proven expertise in leading cloud migration and modernization projects involving large-scale applications, distributed systems, and complex enterprise integrations.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS core services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, IAM, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security architecture, encryption, IAM governance, resiliency, observability, and cost optimization best practices.
• Experience designing and implementing serverless, microservices-based, and event-driven architectures using AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Kinesis, or Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Experience implementing non-functional requirements (NFRs) including scalability, performance, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence using tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, or Datadog.
• Prior experience working within banking, financial services, or payments environments is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills with the ability to translate complex technical solutions into business value.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or Associate certification is required.

"CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $115,000-$165,000. This role is an existing vacancy."

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Use of the term 'architect' in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices architecture or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial architect regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT architect-related functions, but licensure from an architect regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Architecture is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

Skills:

• Cloud Computing
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Financial Services
• Java
• Node.Js
• Python