Solutions Architect
Appnovation Technologies2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end solution architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform spanning Databricks, Snowflake, and adjacent cloud data sources.
- Produce decision records, reference architectures, solution diagrams, design standards, and build-versus-integrate recommendations.
- Define catalog, metadata, data-contract, and governance integration patterns across cloud and lakehouse environments.
- Design agent- and MCP-based access patterns for exposing governed data products to enterprise AI tools and agent platforms.
- Set future-state direction for data products, cross-source data composition, and agentic data consumption.
- Align the platform with enterprise engineering practices and guide engineering teams toward implementation.
- Influence technical decisions, communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and manage multiple client-facing initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of technology experience, including significant experience in solution, enterprise, or data architecture.
- Demonstrated experience designing cross-cloud and multi-cloud data architectures.
- Experience applying zero-copy, data-mesh, data-product, and domain-driven design principles.
- Deep expertise in data governance, attribute- and role-based access control, data classification, and geolocation-based access requirements.
- Experience defining data-contract standards, including the Linux Foundation Open Data Contract Standard, and embedding governance metadata into platform workflows.
- Strong identity and access management experience for users, machines, and agents, including OAuth/OIDC and service accounts.
- Experience with data platforms, governance and catalog tools, AI-agent access patterns, open table formats, data contracts, Python, identity providers, and Terraform.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, documentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Prior consulting or client-facing delivery experience, including work across multiple concurrent initiatives and priorities.
- Preferred experience with semantic layers, ontologies, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, cross-cloud cost management, FinOps, and regulated life-sciences or compliance-driven environments.
About Appnovation Technologies
Appnovation Technologies is a privately held digital consultancy that designs, builds, and supports customer-facing platforms for enterprises, combining strategy, UX, engineering, and managed services. Its teams deliver web and mobile development, Drupal and open-source implementations, Atlassian consulting, and data/AI-enabled solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vancouver, it serves global clients including Pfizer, Google, Yeti, TCL, and AstraZeneca.