Cloud Architect

Technology Jobs - Ontario, Canada London, Ontario

Join Team CARFAX as a Cloud Architect . Team CARFAX is looking for hands‑on, system‑level thinkers who understand the many tradeoffs of technology choices, engage with distributed teams and help architect and design cloud‑based platforms and data migration strategies to be leveraged across many departmental development teams. The Tech Culture at CARFAX: Having a creative and innovative environment where our developers can collaborate, learn and grow is something CARFAX is passionate about. We have an entire floor dedicated to our techies, designed specifically to enable teams to dream big and produce the best. Along with creating and maintaining awesome software you’ll also be able to participate in our annual Hack‑a‑thon or take a break by kicking back and playing the latest game on Xbox when you need to re‑boot the mind. Oh, and do you happen to have a dog? CARFAX is dog‑friendly and no day goes by where you don’t have the chance to visit with one of the visiting pups. We even provide the dog beds, bowls and of course, toys One last thing: Our four‑day week continues in Summer 2026 At CARFAX, we believe in the power of teamwork and value in‑person interactions so that we can collaborate and thrive together. This position will require 2 days per week in our London, ON office subject to change with future business needs.

What you’ll be doing:

- Providing technical leadership to the data ingest development teams
- Analyze system requirements and workflow analysis, prepare design and architectural specifications




- Assist in the architectural design of migrating from legacy systems
- Ensure uniform enterprise‑wide application design standards are maintained
- Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
- Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers, support teams and other stakeholders
- Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications, data storage and processes
- Continuously analyze and evaluate our systems, products and process for potential improvements
- Communicate across development teams to understand pain points and places where improvements can be beneficial
- Educate business stakeholders and product development teams on the proper use of AWS products and services

You’ll need to:
- Communicate – Be vocal We believe in the wisdom of crowds and your input is needed and valued
- Have a Self‑Driven attitude – ability to quickly come up to speed with different technologies on an ongoing basis.
- Exhibit technical acumen – Be flexible We love to change it up by using different technologies and need you to be open to recent and different technologies




- Love to learn To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore what’s new and be willing to dive in and learn.

What we’re looking for:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3 years of that designing & architecting web applications
- Experience in architecting and migrating big data to AWS cost effectively, securely and reliably
- Knowledge or hands‑on experience in MongoDB, Hadoop and AWS databases – RDS/Aurora, DocumentDB and DynamoDB
- Expertise in security best practices for data at rest and in transit in AWS, cloud security best practices and a DevSecOps mindset.
- Hands‑on experience with AWS product offerings (e.G. EC2, VPCs, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- AWS Solution Architect – Professional certification is strongly preferred
- Hands‑on experience migrating legacy, non‑cloud applications to AWS including AWS data migration tooling, products and services.
- Hands‑on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines leveraging a tool such as Jenkins or GitLab – be a firm believer in "automate everything"
- Knowledgeable of ETL and ELT architecture and patterns and best practices for large‑scale performance.
- Knowledge of AWS pricing and cost estimations
- Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills and Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience building web applications across diverse technologies (Java, Javascript, golang, etc.)
- Understand and advise teams in the design of common software and data arc

📌 Cloud Architect (London)
🏢 CARFAX
📍 London