AWS Lead Architect

Location: Montreal

Role overview

Define and oversee AWS target architecture for enterprise legacy modernization, combining practical hands-on design with regulated-bank controls, resilience and secure hybrid integration.

Key responsibilities

- Assess current-state architecture and AWS readiness.
- Define target-state architecture and appropriate migration/modernization patterns.
- Design secure, resilient, cost-aware solutions using compute, containers, serverless, storage and databases.
- Define hybrid networking/connectivity, IAM, encryption, secrets, observability and recovery patterns.
- Set IaC, CI/CD, deployment and architectural standards.
- Review application-wave design decisions and guide squad technical leads.
- Support modernization of Java, .NET, Python, batch and file-based integration.
- Coordinate AWS CoE, cybersecurity, infrastructure and architecture approvals.




- Contribute to technical documentation and architecture KT.

Required qualifications

- 12+ years in IT architecture/engineering with deep hands-on AWS implementation.
- Proven on-prem-to-AWS migration and legacy modernization experience.
- EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch and hybrid connectivity.
- Terraform/CloudFormation or similar IaC, Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud security.
- Strong understanding of application architecture and cloud resilience.
- Experience in regulated enterprise environments; excellent English.

Preferred qualifications

- AWS Solutions Architect – Qualified.
- Banking/Capital Markets, Control-M, Groovy and batch systems.
- PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server migration and AI-assisted assessment tools.

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