Join our team as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade, secure, cloud-native systems. This hybrid role (3 days onsite/2 days remote) requires over 10 years of experience in solution design, DevOps, cloud integration, and architecture for high-sensitivity data across hybrid environments. You will lead cross-functional teams, integrate Azure services (API Management, Kubernetes, Functions), and ensure compliance with security/privacy standards. With expertise in Spring Boot, Java, CI/CD pipelines, and stakeholder management, you’ll guide agile project delivery, ensuring scalable, resilient, and efficient solutions aligned with Ontario Public Service (OPS) standards.

 

Skill Set Requirements:

Mandatory Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of working experience with solution design, systems integration, API builds/patterns, production support, DevOps, development, performance tuning and production incident triage/troubleshooting
• Minimum of 10 years of implementation experience with cloud-based platforms and solutions (e.g. IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS) and the integration of cross-platform systems with cloud and on-prem solutions (including hybrid cloud)
• Minimum of 10 years on evaluating risk mitigation strategies, designing and architecting cloud-based/cloud-integrated solutions for high-sensitivity data assets
• Minimum of 7 years designing, developing, and implementing value-add components such as DevOps automation, scripts, workflows, data/code/infrastructure CI/CD pipelines with integration to version control
• Stakeholder management experience to concurrently manage relationships with Corporate Security / Architecture, Privacy Office, Program Management Office, Steering Committees and leadership roles in a complex environment including multiple lines of business as well as IT domains
• Experience in requirements gathering, elaboration, and design documentation including facilitation of agile sessions while managing partnership with multiple vendors and system integration partners both internal and external to the organization
• Experience with scalable domain-based design, including architecture design and foundation for areas including (but not limited to) : order management, payment management, orchestration across domains including order fulfilment, payments, stock/inventory management
• Leadership during solution discovery phases via employment of iterative design tactics that focuses and provides clarity for architecture and build teams, whilst ensuring that all system functional as well as non-functional requirements have been accounted for
• Experience with development and implementation of an architectural design approach that feature both security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles, including frequent, constant and timely feedback from security/information privacy stakeholders
• Implementation and project execution experience in an agile delivery model
• Experience with research, option analysis and providing recommendations and strategic advice to senior management based on technical, strategic, as well as feasibility viewpoints, accounting for both business benefit as well as IT strategy considerations

Required Knowledge and Experience

Technology: Extensive experience with the following technologies:

• Azure cloud services
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Azure Functions (Durable)
  • Azure API Management
  • Azure Application Gateways
  • Azure DevOps
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Redis
  • Azure SQL
  • Azure BLOB Storage
  • Azure Active Directory (AD)
  • Azure App Insights
  • Azure Log Analytics
• Frameworks
  • Springboot
  • ReactJS / React Native
  • Next.js
• Development & Architecture:
  • Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, C#
  • REST style, REST API
• DevOps:
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git / GitOps
  • Azure Resource Management
  • Azure Monitoring

Environmental:

• Mandatory experience related to architectural design and technical implementation in deploying cloud-native mission-critical enterprise solutions with extensive and secure integration to other cloud-based partner systems.

 

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Evaluation Criteria

Technical Experience – 45%

 

1.   Cloud Services / Cloud Integration (45)

Experience with Azure Cloud services, and integration of cross-platform systems between Azure cloud with on-prem solutions (including hybrid cloud), including the following:

·        RESTful API (J2EE) and Service Registry

·        Spring Boot

·        Azure API Management

·        Azure App Gateway

·        Azure SQL Server

·        Azure Resource Manager

·        Azure RunBooks

·        Azure (Durable) Functions

·        Redis

·        Azure Kubernetes Service

·        Azure App Insights

·        Azure DevOps

·        Azure Active Directory

 

 

2.   Architectural Experience – 35%

·        Ability to evaluate risk mitigation strategies and architecting cloud-based solutions for high-sensitivity data assets.

·        Ability to evaluate different cloud-based resources/assets to develop interoperability solutions/integrations within a hybrid cloud environment

·        Experience with doing design options analysis in collaborative fashion with all key stakeholders, including Business Areas, Development/Operations teams, Cyber Security, Information Privacy Office, Product Owners, Product Managers, Testing teams.

·        Design experience employing API-centric microservices and/or domain-based services approach.

·        Agile architectural governance experience in support of projects delivering via Agile methodologies.

 

3.   Communication/Project Management Skills – 5%

·        Experience in requirements gathering and documentation including facilitation of agile sessions while managing partnership with external vendors and system integrators

·        Ability to lead and translate communications with different stakeholders and management teams

·        Proven experience in managing relationships with Corporate Security / Architecture, Privacy Office, Business Areas, IT Operations, Development teams, External Delivery Partners

 

4.   OPS Experience – 15%

Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of Ontario Public Service. Experience with Ontario Government Information Technology standards (GO-ITS).

 

Supplier Comments

Max number of candidate submission - 1(one)

Candidate is required to come in office 3 days a week

 

Must have:

Azure API Management

Azure Kubernetes Service