Cloud Solution Architect - AI Apps

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Understand customer objectives in platform engineering, cloud application development, and generative and agentic AI adoption.
• Channel customer feedback to engineering teams, analyze usage patterns, and accelerate delivery through architecture reviews, proofs of concept, MVPs, and environment setup.
• Deliver or recommend technical discussions, workshops, and cloud-readiness activities; ensure solutions meet performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability standards.
• Resolve technical blockers, support customer success and cloud adoption, and identify opportunities based on customer needs.
• Build customer and partner relationships and communicate solution value, plans, and risks to decision-makers.
• Share insights and best practices with internal teams and technical communities, and participate in external technical events.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, plus 4+ years in relevant technology, IT, development, architecture, or consulting experience; equivalent experience is accepted.
• Experience creating proofs of concept and MVPs that lead to production deployments.

Preferred qualifications

• 4+ years of customer-facing experience and 4+ years working on technical projects.
• Cloud technical certification, such as Azure, AWS, Google, or a security certification.
• Enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid infrastructure, architecture, migration, and technology-management experience.
• Experience with one or more of .NET, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or Python and related frameworks.

Technical areas

• Cloud and hybrid infrastructure, cloud security, AI, architecture design, application development, and technology management.
• Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, AKS, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and microservice frameworks.
• DevOps and CI/CD tools including GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Spinnaker.
• Azure SQL, cloud migrations, open-source databases, cloud-scale analytics, data governance, and Azure OpenAI.

Compensation

• Typical Canadian base-pay range for Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 is CAD 96,000–177,600 per year.

Application timing

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled; the posting is open for at least five days.