Job Title: Lead GCP Architect

City: Toronto, Windsor

State/Province: Ontario

Posting Start Date: 9/9/26

Job Description:

Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to define secure integration strategies, devise solution frameworks for enterprise systems, and identify infrastructure dependencies to enable efficient and compliant implementation.

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Area of Responsibility

Requirement Analysis-Collaborate with business leaders and technical teams to define solution strategies that align with enterprise IT roadmap, security, and risk management requirements, ensuring implementation feasibility across multiple systems.

Designing-Create design frameworks for enterprise systems, review implementation across applications, and assist in creating reusable patterns and governance processes to ensure proper integration and risk control.

Integration assessment and support-Define integration framework, manage infrastructure dependencies, and create strategies for secure and efficient integration across enterprise systems.

Troubleshooting-Assess the solution in the client environment and address any issues identified during the troubleshooting process through appropriate remediation steps.

Risk Analysis and Assessment-Identify potential risks, potential impact and define governance processes for risk management and compliance across enterprise solutions and review its adherence.

RFPs-"Collaborate with sales and delivery teams to contribute to proposals by providing inputs on the interoperability of multiple applications within an enterprise system, identification of change areas, and integration approaches aligned with business needs."

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Role Overview

We are seeking a client-facing Lead GCP Architect to support the adoption of a new enterprise GCP platform by application teams. The role requires a hands-on architect who can provide solution leadership, guide application onboarding and modernization, address architecture and connectivity challenges, and influence platform evolution through best practices, architecture patterns, and thought leadership.

The architect will work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, Program Management, and Application teams to drive successful adoption and implementation of cloud-native solutions on GCP.

Key Responsibilities

• Support application teams in adopting enterprise GCP platforms and architectural standards.
• Define and review solution architectures aligned with business, security, and operational requirements.
• Provide guidance on application modernization, cloud-native architectures, integration patterns, and data ecosystem adoption.
• Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to resolve architecture, networking, security, and implementation challenges.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical workshops, and design governance activities.
• Develop architectural patterns, reference solutions, best practices, and point-of-view (POV) documents to mature platform adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across architecture and engineering teams.

Required Skills

• Strong GCP architecture and implementation experience with services such as Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Load Balancing, container-based workloads, and cloud-native application architectures.

• Strong networking expertise including Shared VPC, Private Service Access (PSA), Private Google Access (PGA), Private Service Connect (PSC), VPC architecture, hybrid connectivity, and enterprise networking patterns.

• Strong architecture and solutioning capabilities across application modernization, cloud-native architecture, application maturity assessments, event-driven architectures, integration architecture, infrastructure architecture, data ecosystem integration, and designing solutions that meet security, scalability, availability, performance, and resiliency requirements.

• Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Program Management, Platform Engineering, and Application Development teams, with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ownership, proactive problem-solving, independent delivery, and strong communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to DevSecOps, SRE, Observability, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience with significant architecture responsibilities.
• 5+ years of GCP architecture and implementation experience.
• Proven experience in client-facing consulting, cloud adoption, and modernization programs.

Mandatory Skills: App-Cloud-Google.

Experience: >10 YEARS.

The expected compensation for this role ranges from CAD 110000 to CAD 160000 .