Senior Cloud Software Architect

Role Description

As a Senior Cloud Software Architect, you will use your experiences to help customers plan, design, build, and implement modern cloud-based applications as part of a professional services delivery team.

• Understand business and technical requirements.
• Create backlogs of prioritized work with customers.
• Design application architectures and deployment processes that are secure and scalable.
• Provide best practice guidance around release processes and architecture patterns.
• Make recommendations for optimizations, including user experience, performance, scalability, availability, and cost.
• Assist customers with application modernization or greenfield development.

Examples of projects include:

• Application modernization projects to migrate applications to newer or updated technology stacks, languages, and frameworks.
• Transformation of applications to leverage modern infrastructure services such as containers or serverless.
• Application modernization to help move from monolithic applications to service-oriented or microservice-based architectures.
• Moving applications from an existing database engine (such as Oracle DB) to a new target data service (e.g., Postgres, NoSQL database).
• Understanding requirements to transform existing applications or create greenfield applications using scalable event-driven architectures with Cloud Native serverless solutions.
• Enhancing applications to optimize performance by leveraging tools such as content delivery networks, caching systems, and modern file storage solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer or software architect.
• 2+ years experience acting as a technical lead on projects or teams.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript/ES6.
• NodeJS experience (at least one of: Express, Socket.IO, NestJS).
• UI experience (at least two of: ReactJS, Angular, Vue).
• Working experience with Java (at least one of: Spring, Play, Struts).
• Working experience with C# (.NET 4 and .NET Core, ASP.NET).
• Working experience with Python (at least one of: Django, Flask, Bottle).
• Working experience with PHP (at least one of: Laravel, Cake, Symfony, Drupal).
• Experience with HTML/HTML5, CSS/SASS/LESS, SVG.
• Deep understanding of secure coding practices.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL).
• Experience with at least one NoSQL database (MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch).
• Experience using web protocols, serializers, CDNs, DNS, web security controls, and best practices.
• Experience designing and implementing unit and scenario testing for existing code bases and new functionality.
• Experience using Git source control systems connected to automation pipelines (CI/CD).
• Experience designing and deploying end-to-end applications ready for production release.
• 3+ years experience using public cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience building and deploying container solutions (K8S, OpenShift) and functions-as-a-service (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions).
• Experience writing documentation related to requirements, architectures, code, or test cases.
• Experience with agile software development.
• Experience with applications leveraging message queues, service buses, and stream processors.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package (160K - 180K CAD / year).
• Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP).
• Access to the latest tech.
• Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts.
• Remote first work environment.
• Flexible work hours & location.
• Paid parental leave options.
• Employer paid health & dental premiums.
• GreenShield+ Counselling Mental Health.
• $500 in Health Care Spending Account annually.
• Peer recognition rewards.