7 days ago
Remote, Canada or Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Engage executives and customer engineering teams to establish baselines, define measurable outcomes and align architecture and investment decisions with business priorities.
- Translate financial-services requirements, workflows, data and risk considerations into end-to-end solution architectures and decision-oriented proposals.
- Serve as Lead Architect and accountable technical authority for complex engagements while guiding and mentoring multidisciplinary teams.
- Establish and execute AI Usage Plans with defined use cases, benefits, owners, verification responsibilities and guardrails.
- Validate critical architecture decisions through code, prototypes, tests, demonstrations and customer feedback.
- Maintain engineering rigor through architecture documentation, design reviews, code review, testing, CI/CD, security reviews and operational-readiness assessments.
- Govern AI-assisted teams and agent-based components through authorization boundaries, human approvals, auditability and controlled blast radius.
- Create, test and transfer reusable reference architectures, accelerators and frameworks to customer and delivery teams.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field and 10+ years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 12+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- At least 4 years managing multiple complex projects or portfolios.
- At least 2 years leading blended, multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex multi-team solution delivery as a Lead Architect.
- Technical breadth across data and AI, application development, cloud infrastructure, identity and security, with depth in two or three domains.
- Experience using AI tooling in architecture and delivery and writing or executing AI usage plans or equivalent customer AI integration strategies.
- Experience with software architecture methods, architecture review boards, design patterns, quality gates and test automation.
- Ability to present compellingly to executive audiences and sustain trusted C-suite, VP and Board-level relationships.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.