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Senior Cloud Architect - Cloud & Generative AI Category: Architecture
Main location: Canada, Montre9al
Position ID:J1026-1864
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: Help clients optimize and transform their cloud environments through secure, practical architecture and responsible use of generative AI.
Join a team of architects helping organizations optimize and modernize their existing infrastructure. You will combine cloud architecture expertise with generative AI tools to accelerate analysis, design and delivery while maintaining rigorous human oversight. This is a hybrid position based in Montre9al.
Your future duties and responsibilities: What you will do
• Contribute to technical proposals, estimates, requests for proposals (RFPs) and client presentations.
• Engage with clients to understand business and technical needs and turn them into clear, actionable architecture recommendations.
• Design cloud architecture components covering governance, identity, networking, security, data, business continuity and cost management, using team reference architectures and AWS or Google Cloud equivalents as needed.
• Help design cloud platforms for AI solutions, including model hosting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), assistants and agents, with appropriate security and cost controls.
• Use AI coding assistants and agents in accordance with team practices, including code reviews, testing, security checks and human validation.
• Automate reliable, repeatable deployments through infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Assess existing client infrastructure and applications, compare modernization options (optimize, transform or replace), and use AI-assisted code analysis.
• Monitor cloud and AI spending, including token consumption, and flag variances to the enterprise architect.
• Apply client requirements, including those of regulated sectors (resilience, security, DORA, the EU AI Act and data sovereignty), with support from subject-matter experts.
• Continuously improve your AI-enabled workflows, document architecture decisions, share lessons learned and grow into a trusted architecture advisor.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: What you bring
• At least 5 years of experience in cloud architecture design or cloud engineering.
• Solid knowledge of engineering and automation practices, including IaC, CI/CD, testing and code reviews.
• Regular, hands-on use of AI coding assistants or agents, paired with sound judgment and critical review of outputs.
• Fluency in French and English and ability to work in a hybrid setting in Montre9al.
• Ability to collaborate with English-speaking clients and partners, write RFP responses and present solutions in English.
Nice to have
• Cloud architect certification or FinOps certification.
• Experience with security and resilience requirements in regulated industries.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, RAG solutions and prompts, skills or agent execution loops.
• Recent AI certification from a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS Machine Learning Engineer, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer or a Google certification focused on agentic AI).
• Data science skills.
Compensation and position status
Estimated annual salary range: CAD $80,000-$155,000. Actual compensation is determined based on factors such as skills, experience, education, certifications and the local market. 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.
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