Help clients optimize and transform their cloud environments through secure, practical architecture and responsible use of generative AI.

Join a team of architects helping organizations optimize and modernize their existing infrastructure. You will combine cloud architecture expertise with generative AI tools to accelerate analysis, design and delivery while maintaining rigorous human oversight. This is a hybrid position based in Montréal.

Your future duties and responsibilities

What you will do

- Contribute to technical proposals, estimates, requests for proposals (RFPs) and client presentations.
- Engage with clients to understand business and technical needs and turn them into transparent, actionable architecture recommendations.
- Design cloud architecture components covering governance, identity, networking, security, data, business continuity and cost management, using team reference architectures and AWS or Google Cloud equivalents as needed.
- Help design cloud platforms for AI solutions, including model hosting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), assistants and agents, with appropriate security and cost controls.
- Use AI coding assistants and agents in accordance with team practices, including code reviews, testing, security checks and human validation.
- Automate reliable, repeatable deployments through infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Assess existing client infrastructure and applications, compare modernization options (optimize, transform or replace), and use AI-assisted code analysis.
- Monitor cloud and AI spending, including token consumption, and flag variances to the enterprise architect.
- Apply client requirements, including those of regulated sectors (resilience, security, DORA, the EU AI Act and data sovereignty), with support from subject-matter experts.
- Continuously improve your AI-enabled workflows,



document architecture decisions, share lessons learned and grow into a trusted architecture advisor.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

What you bring

- At least 5 years of experience in cloud architecture design or cloud engineering.
- Solid knowledge of engineering and automation practices, including IaC, CI/CD, testing and code reviews.
- Regular, hands-on use of AI coding assistants or agents, paired with sound judgment and critical review of outputs.
- Fluency in French and English and ability to work in a hybrid setting in Montréal.
- Ability to collaborate with English-speaking clients and partners, write RFP responses and present solutions in English.

Nice to have
- Cloud architect certification or FinOps certification.
- Experience with security and resilience requirements in regulated industries.
- Hands-on experience building AI agents, RAG solutions and prompts, skills or agent execution loops.
- Recent AI certification from a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS Machine Learning Engineer, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer or a Google certification focused on agentic AI).
- Data science skills.

Compensation and position status Estimated annual salary range: CAD $80,000–$155,000. Actual compensation is determined based on factors such as skills, experience, education, certifications and the local market. This role is an existing vacancy.

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork,



respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

📌 Senior Cloud Architect – Cloud & Generative AI (Montreal)
🏢 CGI
📍 Montreal