Cloud Solutions Architect
Appnovation Technologies13 hours ago
Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect the platform for enterprise scale on AWS for tens of thousands of users.
- Evaluate the scalability of the Postgres/Supabase backend and design caching, multi-region, and global federation strategies.
- Own load-testing strategy and responsiveness targets across geographies.
- Ensure the architecture addresses security and access-control requirements for sensitive content.
- Produce architecture diagrams, architecture decision records, and technical standards.
- Guide and mentor engineers on cloud best practices and patterns.
- Define non-functional requirements for availability, resilience, cost, and observability.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to satisfy enterprise controls.
- Support build-versus-buy decisions and technology evaluations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in architecture.
- Senior cloud architecture experience on AWS; Solutions Architect Professional certification is preferred.
- Experience designing high-scale, low-latency, multi-region distributed systems.
- Experience with caching strategies, data federation, and performance or load testing.
- Experience with security architecture, including RBAC and ABAC.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation and containerization using Docker or Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of networking, IAM, cost optimization, and observability tooling.
- Ability to work within an established enterprise engineering lifecycle and contribute quickly.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.
- Prior consulting experience.
- Prior life sciences industry experience and connections are preferred.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.