144 Cloud Architects jobs in Canada
Enterprise Architect - Senior
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Location: Edmonton, AB (Primarily Remote; occasional onsite on reasonable notice)
Openings: 1
Respond-by & Anticipated Interview Dates: Respond by September 19, 2025; interviews September 29 – October 1, 2025
Contract duration: 6 months with possibility of renewal
Project/Program Overview
Support a provincial government’s Remote Access Services, with a focus on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) operations and continuous service improvement. You’ll partner with a third-party managed service provider, Service Owner/Manager, and internal technical/security teams to keep services stable, secure, cost-optimized, and audit-ready.
Role Summary
As Remote Desktop Architect (AVD) you’ll own day-to-day operational oversight and light architectural guidance for AVD: monitoring and capacity reporting, DR planning/testing, vulnerability remediation coordination, certificate renewals, compliance documentation, and SOP/knowledge base content. All while driving incremental service improvements and a great end-user/admin experience.
Responsibilities
- Operations & Cost Optimization: Ensure AVD services run efficiently; tune architecture/config to balance performance, user experience, and spend.
- Documentation & Audit Readiness: Produce/maintain SOPs, change records, knowledge articles, and audit artifacts.
- Security & Compliance: Evaluate risks; implement controls aligned to Statement of Sensitivity (SOS) and Security Threat Risk Assessment (STRA); review vulnerability reports and track remediation and exceptions.
- Service Development & CSI: Partner with Service Owner/Manager and provider on the service roadmap, certificate renewals, upgrades, and continuous service improvement.
- Monitoring & Reporting: Assist providers with monitoring tooling and regular service/capacity reports; analyze trends to pre-empt issues.
- DR & Resilience: Review/update disaster recovery plans; coordinate annual DR testing and improvement options.
- Cloud & On-Prem Oversight: Review/document current AVD configurations across cloud/on-prem; keep SharePoint service documentation current.
- Stakeholder Enablement: Provide technical input to projects; contribute to team upskilling via cross-training and stretch assignments.
Must-Have Requirements
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) operations/administration and remote access services.
- Strong documentation discipline (SOPs, change management, KB articles, audit packages).
- Experience collaborating with managed service providers and cross-functional security/infra teams.
- Practical knowledge of certificate management, vulnerability management, and DR planning/testing.
- Familiarity with public-sector security/compliance practices (e.g., STRA, SOS), risk evaluation, and control implementation.
- Ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly and operate in a structured ITIL-style environment.
Nice-to-Have Requirements
- Experience with service road-mapping and continuous service improvement (CSI).
- Exposure to Azure governance/capacity/cost reporting, and building/consuming monitoring dashboards.
- SharePoint content management for service documentation and knowledge bases.
- Prior public-sector or highly regulated environment experience.
Ways of Working & Tools
- Partner closely with Service Owner/Manager, MRA vendor (managed remote access provider), security, and infra teams.
- Maintain service documentation in SharePoint; support monitoring/reporting for performance, troubleshooting, and capacity.
- Standard hours 08:15–16:30 MT, Monday–Friday (excluding provincial holidays).
Security/Compliance & Mandatory Training
- Criminal Record Check required prior to start.
- Mandatory training post-hire: FOIP and Security Awareness (additional courses as assigned).
Contract & Hours
- Hours/Day: 7.25 | Hours/Week: 36.25 | Total Hours: 899 (≈ 124 workdays / ~25 weeks).
- Work Location: Primarily remote; must be performed from within Canada. Onsite meetings may occur on reasonable notice.
- Travel Time: 0%.
Sr. Enterprise Architect - GOAPRDJP00000693
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Sr. Enterprise Architect
7000 - 113 ST , Edmonton
Remotely; however, the resource may be required to attend meetings or work sessions in office on reasonable notice from the Province.
Contract 6 months
The Remote Access Technical Architect provides support to the Service Manager and Service Owner to assist with day to day operational duties ensuring the services are operating at peak efficiency, and that the Service architecture is configured to minimize costs, and optimize the user and management experience. The Architect must understand the technical capabilities of the Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) environment and be able to work in a collaborative manner with both the Service Provider and other technical teams in the GoA.
Standard Background Check
Must-Have:
- Experience developing on cloud platforms and utilizing cloud services in development - 3 years
- Experience in defining technical architecture, building technical environments - 5 years
- Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across - 5 years
- Experience in multiple architecture domains e.g. business, application, technology - 3 years
- Experience with process improvement, documentation and requirement gathering
5 years - Experience with triaging technical issues/problems and troubleshooting - 3 years
- Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in - 5 years
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing M365 products.
1 years - Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing Microsoft - 1 years
- Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting - 5 years
- Experience in designing architecture to support remote work and/or field-based workers - 5 years
- Experience in developing new IT services including the development of service - 3 years
- Experience in IT infrastructure architecture and the relationships among the - 1 years
- Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions - 3 years
- Experience with IT service management, IT service management applications, IT - 3 years
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex systems - 3 years
- Experience working within an agile development environment - 2 years
- Perform IT and/or business-related analysis, diagnosis, problem-solving, use case - 3 years
Enterprise Architect - IBM MQ
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Skills Required: Digital : Python IBM WebSphere MQ Series System Z - z/OS System Z – REXX System Z - JCL
Exp Required: 8
Job Description:
· Experience 8 years of experience in MQ Middleware to architect, implement, and maintain robust messaging solutions that integrate mission-critical mainframe systems with custom applications.
· The ideal candidate will be the organizations primary authority on IBM MQ on zOS, ensuring secure, reliable, and high-performance data exchange between distributed and mainframe environments.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture and Design and architect complex, high-volume MQ messaging infrastructures on mainframe (zOS) and distributed plat-forms, ensuring seamless integration with custom enterprise applications.Installation and Configuration Lead the installation, configuration, tuning, and upgrading of IBM MQ (including Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, and Clusters) in a zOS environment.Integration Expertise Provide expert-level support and guidance for integrating new and existing custom applications (developed in Java, .NET, COBOL, etc.) with mainframe systems via MQ messaging.Performance Tuning and Monitoring Proactively monitor MQ environments for performance bottlenecks and errors, implementing tuning strategies to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and high availability.Troubleshooting and Support Serve as the final escalation point (L3 support) for complex MQ-related incidents, quickly diagnosing and resolving issues across integrated platforms.Security Management Implement and manage security configurations, including SSLTLS, channel authentication, and integration with mainframe security tools like RACF or ACF2.Scripting and Automation Develop and maintain automation scripts (using JCL, REXX, Python, or Ansible) to manage, monitor, and deploy MQ objects and configurations.Sr. Enterprise Architect - GOAPRDJP00000693
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Sr. Enterprise Architect
7000 - 113 ST , Edmonton
Remotely; however, the resource may be required to attend meetings or work sessions in office on reasonable notice from the Province.
Contract 6 months
The Remote Access Technical Architect provides support to the Service Manager and Service Owner to assist with day to day operational duties ensuring the services are operating at peak efficiency, and that the Service architecture is configured to minimize costs, and optimize the user and management experience. The Architect must understand the technical capabilities of the Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) environment and be able to work in a collaborative manner with both the Service Provider and other technical teams in the GoA.
Standard Background Check
Must-Have:
- Experience developing on cloud platforms and utilizing cloud services in development - 3 years
- Experience in defining technical architecture, building technical environments - 5 years
- Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across - 5 years
- Experience in multiple architecture domains e.g. business, application, technology - 3 years
- Experience with process improvement, documentation and requirement gathering
5 years - Experience with triaging technical issues/problems and troubleshooting - 3 years
- Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in - 5 years
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing M365 products.
1 years - Experience collecting requirements, analyzing, designing or implementing Microsoft - 1 years
- Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting - 5 years
- Experience in designing architecture to support remote work and/or field-based workers - 5 years
- Experience in developing new IT services including the development of service - 3 years
- Experience in IT infrastructure architecture and the relationships among the - 1 years
- Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions - 3 years
- Experience with IT service management, IT service management applications, IT - 3 years
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex systems - 3 years
- Experience working within an agile development environment - 2 years
- Perform IT and/or business-related analysis, diagnosis, problem-solving, use case - 3 years
Enterprise Architect - Platform Modernization & Migration
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About Sycle
Sycle is the leading provider of practice management software for the audiology industry, trusted by over 20,000 users around the globe. Our innovative, cloud-based SaaS platform supports thousands of paying customers—from independent practices to global retailers—who rely on us daily to run their businesses efficiently and securely. As a recognized industry leader, we’re passionate about building high-impact, user-centric solutions that evolve with the needs of medical professionals.
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to document our current systems, define a clear North Star architecture vision, and create a practical roadmap for achieving it. This role will work closely with leadership and technical teams to align architecture with business priorities, modernize legacy components, and ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.
Technology Environment
The successful candidate will be working within the following environment:
- Legacy Applications: PHP and Laravel-based monolithic platform with integrations to multiple external systems
- Frontend Frameworks: React and Node.js (Nest.js) for modern web application components
- Databases: AWS-hosted MySQL and Postgres, with existing data pipelines and reporting dependencies
- Infrastructure: AWS cloud environment with services supporting compute, storage, security, and scaling needs
- Integration Patterns: Mix of legacy point-to-point integrations and modern REST APIs under development
- Development & Delivery: Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments (Docker), and staging/QA environments
- Security & Compliance: HIPAA and industry-standard security requirements driving data privacy and access control design
- Modernization Goals: Transition from a monolithic PHP/Laravel system toward a modular, service-oriented, or microservices-based architecture with clear API boundaries and scalable components
Key Responsibilities
- Document the current-state architecture, including applications, integrations, data flows, and infrastructure
- Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and capability gaps
- Define the North Star target architecture aligned with business strategy and technology trends
- Develop a phased roadmap for modernization and improvements
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to validate feasibility and priorities
- Ensure architecture designs meet performance, scalability, resilience, and compliance requirements
- Provide architectural guidance on ongoing and future initiatives
- Lead buy vs. build decision-making processes to ensure optimal solutions
- Establish and enforce development standards, coding guidelines, and best practices
- Define and oversee Dev/QA environment strategies to support scalable and consistent delivery
Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles
- Strong experience with SaaS platforms, cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred), and integration patterns
- Proven ability to document and communicate complex architectures clearly
- Familiarity with HIPAA compliance and secure architecture design
- Experience with legacy modernization and migration strategies
- Strong knowledge of APIs, data architecture, and microservices (or hybrid monolith transition)
Nice To Have
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent
- Background in healthcare technology or regulated industries
- Experience with architecture modeling tools (Sparx EA, ArchiMate, Lucidchart) and collaboration/visualization platforms such as Miro or Mural for workshops, roadmap design, and stakeholder alignment
This fully-remote full-time/permanent role is open to eligible candidates in BC, Alberta and Ontario, Canada. Only those considered a fit will be contacted. Thanks in advance for your interest.
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