Platform Architect - Enterprise IT & Security

Apple Inc.; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Montreal, QC, seeks a Platform Architect to guide and scale our channel and field solutions across business and education customers. You’ll shape IT practices, deploy secure platforms, and partner with sales teams to deliver value at scale.

You will act as a trusted advisor across Apple and partners, building programs, delivering enablement, and ensuring customer success through lifecycle and service offerings while navigating complex environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 7 years of experience in deploying and managing Apple technology across large complex heterogeneous IT environments.
• Extensive knowledge of platform security architecture, including security and compliance.
• Deep expertise with Mac client management solutions (e.g., Jamf, Omnissa Workspace One, Microsoft Intune, pkgbuild, autopkg, Packages, Composer).
• Expertise with Identity Provider solutions (e.g., Microsoft Entra, Okta).
• Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Swift, Ruby).
• Expertise with UNIX shell scripting (e.g., Bourne, bash, zsh).
• Expertise with telemetry, application performance management, digital employee experience tools (osquery or equivalent).
• Solid understanding with Windows equivalents of above.
• Hands-on knowledge of multiple operating systems including Windows, macOS and iOS/iPadOS.
• Expertise in building and delivering compelling presentations, demonstrations and seminars.
• Ability to build, maintain, and strengthen high-level customer and partner relationships.
• Strong communicator, capable of delivering complex technical information clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences including at an executive level.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand our customer’s and partner’s organizations and ambitions—and be seen as a trusted advisor on the Apple hardware, software and services.
• Work collaboratively across Apple, channel partners, to build technical practices at partner organizations to enhance readiness of our platform and support end customers in business and education.
• Deliver the technical enablement strategy and execute readiness initiatives to integrate Apple into our partner’s product and service offerings.
• Regularly assess and communicate the strength and efficiency of partner capabilities.
• Guide and shadow partner organizations in their customer implementations.

Skills

Platform security architecture

Mac client management

Identity Provider solutions

Programming languages (Python)

Programming languages (Swift)

Programming languages (Ruby)

UNIX shell scripting

Operating systems knowledge (Windows,‑

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jamf

Omnissa Workspace One

Microsoft Intune

pkgbuild

autopkg

Packages

Composer

osquery

Job description

Apple Inc. in Montreal, QC, seeks a Platform Architect to guide and scale our channel and field solutions across business and education customers. You’ll shape IT practices, deploy secure platforms, and partner with sales teams to deliver value at scale.

You will act as a trusted advisor across Apple and partners, building programs, delivering enablement, and ensuring customer success through lifecycle and service offerings while navigating complex environments.