About The RoleRumor is a venture studio that builds and partners with agencies, startups and Fortune 500 companies across North America and Europe. We are hiring a hands‑on Lead Architect to drive application architecture, AI tooling, DevOps and engineering innovation across one of our clients located in the US. This is not a traditional management or architecture‑only role.

We want a proactive, technically strong individual contributor who can move between designing solutions, setting up CI/CD pipelines, implementing AI‑powered development workflows, and rapidly prototyping new services. Someone who takes ownership, identifies opportunities to improve how we build software, and turns ideas into working solutions. What you will doApplication Architecture Design scalable, secure and maintainable architectures for current applications, services and solutions.

Provide technical direction on application design, integrations and modernization. Work closely with developers and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions. DevOps & CI/CD Set up and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build processes and deployment workflows.

Improve

DevOps practices, automation and release management.



Work with cloud infrastructure and deployment environments. Take ownership of hands‑on technical implementation where required. A hands‑on technical leader who enjoys both architecture and implementation.

Comfortable working across application development, DevOps and cloud infrastructure. A strong problem solver who can guide developers without directly managing them. 8+ years of experience in software development, application architecture or senior engineering roles. Strong hands‑on experience with PHP and application architecture.

Proven experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline implementation. Cloud experience, preferably Microsoft Azure. AWS or Google Cloud experience is also acceptable.

Experience with Git, Docker and deployment automation. Strong technical problem-solving and communication skills. Flexible availability may be required for technical discussions, deployments and critical project initiatives.

Bonus

Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

Experience modernizing legacy PHP applications.

📌 Lead Architect - Perm (Winnipeg)
🏢 Rumor
📍 Winnipeg