Why Zensar?

We’re a bunch of hardworking, fun-loving, people-oriented technology enthusiasts. We love what we do, and we’re passionate about helping our clients thrive in an increasingly complex digital world. Zensar is an organization focused on building relationships with our clients and with each other—and happiness is at the core of everything we do.

In fact, we’re so into happiness that we’ve created a Global Happiness Council, and we send out a Happiness Survey to our employees each year. We’ve learned that employee happiness requires more than a competitive paycheck, and our employee value proposition—grow, own, achieve, learn (GOAL)—lays out the core opportunities we seek to foster for every employee. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to Zensar’s mission and success, and our teams work on a diverse and challenging mix of technologies across a broad industry spectrum.

These industries include banking and financial services, high-tech and manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, retail, and consumer services. Our employees enjoy flexible work arrangements and a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), among other perks. If you are looking for a place to have an immediate impact, to grow and contribute, where we work hard, play hard, and support each other, consider joining team Zensar!

What is this role about?

Individuals in the Architecture role provide overall direction, guidance, definition, and facilitation for the development of an architecture (current and future state) required to meet business strategies and goals.

Responsibilities include advocacy and support of the enterprise’s IT strategies, identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context, analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, and the development of strategies aligning IT to business.

Architects interface across all business areas, acting as visionaries to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects. They conceive strategies, solutions, build consensus, and sell/execute solutions. They are involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff through the requirements analysis, design, and implementation.

Additional responsibilities may include the establishment of overall architectural viewpoints and the establishment and oversight of organizational standards and policies. Architects identify major system interfaces, business capability needs, and existing architecture weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.

Serving in this role requires an individual to be a self-starter who can work independently and as a team member. Strong communication skills are required to interface with business partners and the IT community.

Architects are responsible for educating and guiding others on architectural standards, principles, methodologies, and trends. They must possess significant business knowledge and expertise within one or more areas of information, solution, and/or technical architecture.





Architects are expected to mentor and coach less experienced staff and provide knowledge transfer across the organization.

The Enterprise Architect provides guidance, roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices. They must focus on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the long-term strategic vision of the organization.

This role will work on multiple projects as a project leader or internal consultant and will be viewed as a subject matter expert, providing knowledge and counsel to others. The architect will work on highly complex projects requiring in-depth knowledge of specialized architecture domains such as network, security, applications, data, systems, internet technologies, and business segments.

Private Hosting Solution Architect

Location: Canada (Remote)

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

- Provide architectural guidance for the integration and onboarding of application workloads into hosting platforms, including:
- Compute
- Virtualization
- Storage
- Backup and Recovery
- Operational Requirements
- Provide architecture and technical leadership for the design and delivery of private and hybrid cloud hosting platforms and support infrastructure services integration with public cloud services.
- Promote standardized, automated, and repeatable infrastructure delivery through architecture patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and approved enterprise automation platforms.
- Provide architecture guidance and coordination for the integration of acquired businesses into Enterprise IT, including application assessment, rationalization, and migration to enterprise hosting platforms.
- Assist in the analysis, design, and development of roadmaps and implementation plans based on current and future-state architectures.
- Develop standard architecture patterns for integration of services into hosting platforms.
- Align architectural requirements with enterprise infrastructure, security, and cloud strategies.
- Consult with project and product teams to ensure solutions can be integrated into:
- Hosting platforms
- Infrastructure services
- Network services
- Security services
- Identity services
- Storage platforms
- Backup services
- Other shared enterprise services
- Identify opportunities to reuse standardized hosting patterns, platforms, services, and automation.
- Support the development and evolution of private hosting platforms and reusable infrastructure services consumed across business and application workloads.




- Assist in post-implementation continuous improvement efforts to enhance performance and increase functionality.
- Ensure architectural completeness of private hosting solutions, including:
- Integration requirements
- Dependencies
- Non-functional requirements
- Performance benchmarks
- Resiliency
- Security
- Operational readiness
- Work closely with senior architects and project management teams to ensure alignment between architecture and delivery.
- Analyze existing architectures to identify:
- Technical debt
- Capability gaps
- Integration challenges
- Modernization opportunities
- Standardization opportunities
- Keep technology and service managers informed of key customer issues and help identify and resolve potential risks and conflicts.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies such as:
- Containers
- Infrastructure automation
- Hosting technologies
- Identify approved infrastructure platforms, services, tools, and patterns appropriate for hosting solutions.
- Request exceptions to enterprise toolsets when required.
- Assist in developing business cases.
- Support change management initiatives.
- Collaborate with project management teams on reporting project status, issues, risks, and benefits.

Typically requires:

- 4-7 years of experience across multiple IT disciplines.
- 2-4 years of relevant domain experience in areas such as:
- Data
- Network
- Applications
- Systems
- Infrastructure

Requires advanced to expert-level knowledge and understanding of:

- Architecture
- Application Design
- Systems Engineering
- Integration

Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements

- Robust communication skills.
- Experience mentoring and/or leading teams.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into multiple solution options.
- Ability to explain pros and cons of various architectural approaches.
- Minimum of four (4) years of relevant experience.

Zensar believes that diversity of backgrounds, thought, experience, and expertise fosters the robust exchange of ideas that enables the highest quality collaboration and work product. Zensar is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Zensar is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. Zensar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. Accommodation made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodation once hired. All applicants must be legally authorized to work with Zensar. Visa sponsorship may be available for qualified applicants for certain positions.

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📌 Private Hosting Solution Architect (Ontario)
🏢 Zensar Technologies
📍 Ontario