Senior Data Platform Architect — Cloud & Analytics

CN; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Employee share investment program

Pension

Benefits

Job summary

CN in Montreal is seeking a senior Data Platform Architect to lead the delivery of cloud data platform solutions. You will design scalable architectures ensuring performance, cost effectiveness, and maintainability while aligning with CN standards and strategic directions.

You will guide architecture practice, define standards, and work with data services leadership to drive continuous improvement and modernization initiatives across CNDS.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of experience with applications, data, and cloud.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as an architect with technology architecture covering big data, data engineering, data analytics, systems integration, and distributed computing
• Minimum 3 years of experience as senior architect using cloud technologies and big data technologies including data analytics
• Candidates with an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of CN Data Services (CNDS) initiatives including the data platform and operational data products.
• Create systems architectures and modernization strategies related to data platforms.
• Complete systems integrations and ingestion design patterns, Data Lake, Data Lake House, and Data Warehouse architecture along with target and transitions architectures and roadmaps.
• Design and optimize platform and integration strategies for the cost-effective delivery of scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Resolve Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) for the data platform and data products.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture to align and introduce new solutions and technologies.
• Work with Solution Architects to ensure the data platform is integrated into a solution efficiently.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies
• Lead the CNDS team, fostering a culture of design thinking, brainstorming, efficiency, and balancing vision with practicality
• Define architecture and engineering standards, patterns and best practices
• Influence CNDS leadership with effective communication of proposals, directions and strategic decision making

Skills

Azure

GCP

Data Architecture

Big Data

Data Analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Data Lake

Data Warehouse

ETL Tools

Job description

CN in Montreal is seeking a senior Data Platform Architect to lead the delivery of cloud data platform solutions. You will design scalable architectures ensuring performance, cost effectiveness, and maintainability while aligning with CN standards and strategic directions.

You will guide architecture practice, define standards, and work with data services leadership to drive continuous improvement and modernization initiatives across CNDS.