AWS Lead Architect: Enterprise Modernization & Secure Hybrid

Corus Consulting an Alten Company; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Corus Consulting an Alten Company in Canada seeks an senior AWS Architect to shape target architecture for enterprise modernization. You will balance hands-on design with regulatory controls, resilience, and secure hybrid integration across systems.

You will assess current-state architectures, define migration patterns, ensure security and cost efficiency, and drive IaC, CI/CD, and architecture standards while aligning with banking/regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in IT architecture with hands-on AWS.
• Experience migrating on-prem to AWS and modernizing legacy systems.
• Proficient with EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and hybrid connectivity.
• IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud security.
• Strong understanding of application architecture and resilience in cloud.
• Experience in regulated enterprises; excellent English.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee AWS target architecture for enterprise modernization.
• Assess current-state architecture and AWS readiness.
• Define target-state architecture and migration 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.
• Coordinate AWS CoE, cybersecurity, infrastructure and architecture approvals.
• Contribute to technical documentation and architecture KT.

Skills

AWS architecture

Hands-on AWS

Migration & modernization

Terraform/CloudFormation

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud security

Regulated environments

English

Tools

Terraform/CloudFormation

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Corus Consulting an Alten Company in Canada seeks an senior AWS Architect to shape target architecture for enterprise modernization. You will balance hands-on design with regulatory controls, resilience, and secure hybrid integration across systems.

You will assess current-state architectures, define migration patterns, ensure security and cost efficiency, and drive IaC, CI/CD, and architecture standards while aligning with banking/regulatory expectations.