Design and govern enterprise infrastructure architectures across data centers, networks, storage, compute, and cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP). Lead hybrid cloud migrations, create solution blueprints, enforce security-by-design, collaborate with engineering teams, and maintain architecture artifacts and roadmaps supporting modernization.
This is a remote position.
Overview
This is a remote consulting opportunity supporting a government client.
Subcontractor Opportunity: This is not an employee position. The successful consultant must be incorporated and able to provide services through their corporation.
Role Summary
The Systems Architect provides strategic and technical leadership across enterprise infrastructure environments, designing and governing secure, scalable, and integrated systems that support business operations and modernization initiatives.
The role is responsible for defining infrastructure architectures spanning data centres, networks, storage, compute, and cloud platforms while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and modernization priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure architecture strategies, principles, and target-state designs
- Develop architecture blueprints covering data centres, networking, storage, compute, and cloud platforms
- Lead development of infrastructure solution designs aligned with business and technical requirements
- Define integration strategies across on-premise and cloud systems
- Design hybrid architectures integrating on-premise environments with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Guide migration initiatives from legacy infrastructure to cloud-based environments
- Evaluate infrastructure technologies and recommend modernization solutions
- Ensure infrastructure architectures incorporate security-by-design principles
- Collaborate with solution architects, engineers, and operations teams to guide implementation
- Maintain and organize architecture documentation and technical artifacts within the enterprise repository
- Assess infrastructure performance and identify opportunities for optimization
- Design for resilience, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
Key Deliverables
- Enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy and target-state designs
- Infrastructure solution designs and technical blueprints
- Hybrid and cloud architecture designs and migration plans
- Architecture review outputs and governance artifacts
- Infrastructure roadmaps and modernization recommendations
- Enterprise repository documentation and artifacts
Requirements
Qualifications
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred
- Professional certifications in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP considered an asset
- Certifications in virtualization platforms such as VMware considered an asset
- Additional certifications such as CISSP or ITIL considered an asset
Experience
- Proven experience as a Systems Architect with a focus on enterprise infrastructure and solution design
- Strong understanding of networking, virtualization, storage, compute, and cloud platforms
- Experience designing hybrid architectures and leading infrastructure migration initiatives
- Ability to translate business requirements into detailed technical designs
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments
- Familiarity with security frameworks, compliance requirements, and infrastructure best practices
- Experience collaborating across technical teams to deliver complex infrastructure solutions
Similar Jobs
Software
Architect coherent optical pluggable products for packet-optical telecommunications networks. Translate business needs and industry standards into system and software architecture specifications, lead cross-functional architecture teams, collaborate with ASIC, optical, hardware, and software developers, assess feature feasibility, validate link-control algorithms and optical performance monitoring, and document product concepts and requirements. The role requires extensive optical transport systems experience, advanced education, and expertise in OTN, Ethernet, MACsec, CMIS, C-CMIS, and OIF standards.
Top Skills:
Ai-SdlcC-CmisCmisCursorEthernetIeeeItuMacsecOifOtn
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Financial Services
Lead the architecture and development of next-generation AI systems for insurance automation. Set technical standards for chatbot and LLM systems, build document validation and workflow automations, expand stateful voicebots, evaluate emerging AI technologies, and deploy reliable production systems. Own system architecture, model evaluation, latency, cost, regression prevention, and failure handling while partnering with OpenAI on voice models and workflow automation.
Top Skills:
Anthropic ClaudeAWSEcsEksGoogle GeminiGraphQLLambdaLlmsNest.JsOpenaiReactTypescriptVoicebots
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Insurance • Software
Lead the architecture and development of next-generation AI systems for insurance automation. Build production automations for document validation, record disputes, voice interactions, and external system navigation. Set technical standards for chatbot systems, evaluate emerging AI technologies, partner with OpenAI on voice and workflow solutions, and ensure LLM systems handle evaluation, regressions, latency, cost, and failure scenarios effectively.
Top Skills:
Ai AgentsAnthropic ClaudeAWSAws LambdaEcsEksGoogle GeminiGraphQLLlmsNest.JsOpenaiReactTypescriptVoicebots
What you need to know about the Calgary Tech Scene
Employees can spend up to one-third of their life at work, so choosing the right company is crucial, not just for the job itself but for the company culture as well. While startups often offer dynamic culture and growth opportunities, large corporations provide benefits like career development and networking, especially appealing to recent graduates. Fortunately, Calgary stands out as a hub for both, recognized as one of Startup Genome's Top 100 Emerging Ecosystems, while also playing host to a number of multinational enterprises. In Calgary, job seekers can find a wide range of opportunities.
