Senior Azure Cloud Architect Job Saskatoon area,Saskatchewan Canada,IT/Tech

Final date to receive applications:

04/29/2026

Address:

VIRTUAL
59 - REMOTE/TELETRAVAIL - ON - BMO

Job Family Group:

Technology

This role can be done REMOTE while living in Canada;
Please note AZURE is a MUST at architectural level.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and passionate professional for a Senior Azure Cloud Architect position. With extensive experience in AWS and or Azure cloud services, this role will support short- and medium-term business and technology cloud initiatives, with focus on the Bank's 3 to 5 year cloud technology roadmap, facilitating innovation and adoption of next-generation technologies.

You will lead architecture, design, and development of end-to-end cloud-based solutions with a heavy focus on application and data, as well as AI and infrastructure. You are a self-starter, driven and can handle multiple projects and priorities. You are passionate about driving the Dev Ops mindset and culture in a fast-paced, challenging environment where you get the opportunity to work with a spectrum of latest tools and technologies to drive forward “Infrastructure-as-Code” and “Infrastructure-as-a-Service”.

As a qualified candidate, you will be part of the team driving BMO’s Azure Cloud implementation. As a member of this team, you should possess the ability to inspire yourself and all our team.

Your Responsibilities

Drive holistic design & patterns for secure cloud application environments, Cloud platform enhancements, application architecture, data services, and cloud service integrations

Conduct technical audits of existing architectures (Infrastructure, Performance, Developing data security as a function of design, as well as Scalability and more)

Architect and implement cloud solutions for various application architectures, and programmatic integration of cloud applications, data services, and infrastructure. Develop application data architecture models to further enable effective service-oriented delivery

Review application solution designs for cloud-fit and optimality and automate deployment patterns for reusability.

Assist LOBs to architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage Cloud services. Collaborates with other architects, operational/infrastructure and delivery teams to ensure new services align with application & infrastructure roadmaps

Consult and provide technical guidance to LOBs to refactor their application for the cloud using the 12-factor development practices for cloud-native and microservices oriented application deployment.

Partner with other stakeholders to drive the creation of Cloud migration & transformation strategy and roadmaps across application, information, business and technology landscapes

Identify and Analyze Cloud Infrastructure architecture gaps to propose new technologies. Establish pilots and POCs for proposed solutions and make recommendations for approvals.

Document best practices and recommendations and create and maintain templates

Drive meetings with subject matter experts from all areas of the business including infrastructure, operations, applications, vendors and leads to seek input from and plan/coordinate migrations, resources requirements and timelines.

Engage with external vendors to review solutions, new capabilities and product, and service offerings

Your Mindset

You are a self-starter, driven and can handle multiple projects and priorities.

You are passionate about driving the cloud mindset and culture in a fast-paced, challenging environment where you get the opportunity to work with a spectrum of latest tools and technologies to drive forward Infrastructure-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

You are actively looking to improve the solutions you implement, understand the efficacy of collaboration and reaching out across functional borders and are keen to work in a team of CI/CD and Infrastructure specialists.

As a member of this team, you should possess the ability to inspire yourself and all of our team. Based on your previous experiences you will inject new knowledge and skills into an already high performing team thus excelling our efforts to new heights.

Required Core

Skills:

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in…