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

📌 AWS Lead Architect (Montreal)
🏢 Corus Consulting an Alten
📍 Montreal