Enterprise Cloud Architect (Enterprise Architect)
Role Overview
The Enterprise Cloud Architect serves as the cloud domain architect within York Region's Enterprise Architecture function.
The role provides architectural leadership, design authority, and guidance for secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions.
The position reports to the ITS Projects Manager or designate within Information Technology Services.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the role
The Enterprise Cloud Architect serves as the cloud domain architect within York Region's Enterprise Architecture function.
The role provides architectural leadership, design authority, and guidance for secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions.
The position reports to the ITS Projects Manager or designate within Information Technology Services.
What you'll be doing
- Develop and maintain cloud frameworks, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
- Review proposed cloud solutions and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, governance, and target-state requirements.
- Define current- and target-state cloud architectures, including tenancy, subscriptions, identity, networking, security, resiliency, disaster recovery, and hybrid integration.
- Translate requirements into reusable architecture patterns, reference designs, and solution components.
- Contribute to architecture planning, technology roadmaps, cloud adoption, modernization, and strategic initiatives.
- Participate in architecture reviews, boards, project assurance, and development of architectural standards and decision records.
- Collaborate with architecture, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, data, and business stakeholders.
- Provide cloud architecture, migration, best-practice, and solution-design guidance to project teams.
What we're looking for
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline, or an approved equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 5 years of progressive cloud and infrastructure experience, including 3 or more years in architecture, principal engineering, or senior technical design.
- TOGAF certification and a relevant IT certification comparable to the examples listed in the posting.
- Expertise in Azure or equivalent cloud architecture, including landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Knowledge of ITIL-aligned service delivery, operational readiness, and 24/7 mission-critical environments.
- Experience with risk management, architectural governance, cloud migration, integration patterns, API management, and hybrid-cloud deployment.
- Experience producing architecture artifacts and standards and conducting design reviews using structured architecture methodologies.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, facilitation, analytical, and influencing skills.
- Previous experience in an Enterprise Architecture framework.
Workplace
- Hybrid work opportunities may apply; the listed work location is 17150 Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario.
Schedule
- Scheduled weekly hours are 35.
- Scheduled shifts are 8:30 to 16:30.
Compensation
- The posting lists a salary grade of $69.68 to $75.74 per hour.
Benefits
- The employer describes a defined-benefit OMERS pension, employer-paid benefits and wellness support, and an inclusive and diverse workforce.
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