Senior Data & AI Architect — Hybrid, AWS & MLOps

Wawanesa; Winnipeg; Hybrid; CAD 115,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company is seeking a Senior Architect - Data & AI to lead high-level architecture design for Advanced Analytics and long-term technology roadmaps. You will align solutions with established standards, govern reusable patterns, and enable spoke teams while ensuring compliance and governance across Canada.

In this head-office role, you will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders, drive architecture leadership, and guide prototype and POC efforts, including

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of overall architecture experience preferred.
• 2–5 years Information Services/IT architecture experience.
• Experience with designing and delivering scalable enterprise solutions.
• Knowledge of MLOps tools and enterprise cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain current state architecture models across Business, Application, Data, and Technology domains.
• Design AWS-native data lakes, ML pipelines, automation, and CI/CD.
• Define and maintain hub standards, guardrails, and governance for analytics capabilities.
• Support spoke teams with onboarding, architecture reviews, and reusable templates.
• Ensure Responsible AI practices and regulatory compliance for data/AI solutions.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Cloud architecture

Data & AI

MLOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

MLflow

SageMaker Pipelines

Feature stores

Job description

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company is seeking a Senior Architect - Data & AI to lead high-level architecture design for Advanced Analytics and long-term technology roadmaps. You will align solutions with established standards, govern reusable patterns, and enable spoke teams while ensuring compliance and governance across Canada.

In this head-office role, you will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders, drive architecture leadership, and guide prototype and POC efforts, including