Sr Manager/Sr Architect/Director

KData AI; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

KData AI is seeking a Banking Market Maker who blends deep banking experience with Cloud Platform Architect-level technical knowledge to grow client programs. The role sits at the intersection of executive strategy, architecture, and business development across cloud, data, AI, security, and modernization.

The successful candidate will shape executable solutions in banking, expand initial engagements into broader programs, and maintain strong executive relationships while guiding delivery across

Qualifications

• Extensive banking technology governance, risk, and investment decision skills.
• Ability to translate banking priorities into clear technology strategies.
• Experience communicating with both senior executives and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with banking executives and delivery teams.
• Lead strategic discussions across cloud transformation, platform engineering, data, AI, security, and modernization.
• Translate banking priorities and regulatory requirements into executable technology programs.
• Provide architecture guidance across Azure, AWS, and GCP in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Shape engagements from discovery and solution design through proposal, mobilization, and delivery.
• Develop account growth strategies in partnership with sales, delivery, and leadership.
• Lead executive workshops, architecture reviews, proposals, roadmaps, and strategic presentations.
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers working within banking accounts.

Skills

Banking experience governance

Cloud architecture

Executive communication

Business development

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Banking Market Maker who combines deep banking experience, Cloud Platform Architect-level technical knowledge, and a demonstrated ability to grow client accounts and programs. The ideal candidate can move comfortably between executive strategy, technical architecture, and commercial opportunity development across cloud, data, AI, security, and application modernization.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Banking Market Maker who combines deep banking experience, Cloud Platform Architect-level technical knowledge, and a demonstrated ability to grow client accounts and programs. The ideal candidate can move comfortably between executive strategy, technical architecture, and commercial opportunity development across cloud, data, AI, security, and application modernization.

This is neither a delivery-only architecture role nor a pure sales position. The successful candidate will use their banking knowledge and technical credibility to shape executable solutions and expand initial engagements into broader programs and long-term relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with banking executives, technology leaders, enterprise architects, and delivery teams
• Lead strategic and technical discussions across cloud transformation, platform engineering, data, AI, security, and application modernization
• Translate banking business priorities, regulatory requirements, and operational challenges into credible technology strategies and executable programs
• Provide architecture-level guidance across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including hybrid- and multi-cloud environments
• Shape engagements from discovery and solution design through proposal development, mobilization, and delivery
• Develop account growth strategies in partnership with sales, delivery, and practice leadership
• Lead executive workshops, architecture reviews, proposals, roadmaps, and strategic presentations
• Remain actively involved in delivery to maintain client trust, support successful outcomes, and identify emerging priorities
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers working within banking accounts.

Requirements

Skills

• Deep banking experience, including technology governance, risk, compliance, and investment decision-making
• Experience in one or more banking domains, such as retail, commercial, payments, lending, wealth, capital markets, risk, or finance
• Broad understanding of cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, integration, and application modernization
• Demonstrated ability to assess complex technology environments and provide clear, practical direction
• Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate credibly with both senior executives and technical teams

Enterprise Cloud Engineering Fundamentals (Required)

Although this is not primarily a hands-on engineering role, candidates must have the technical depth to assess, shape, and challenge enterprise cloud solutions within large banking environments:

• Cloud Platform Architect-level knowledge of Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, including hybrid- and multi-cloud environments
• Platform engineering and shared cloud services designed for use across multiple teams and applications
• Cloud governance, landing zones, identity, networking, security, resilience, and observability
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, APIs, and modern application delivery practices
• Ability to evaluate technical approaches, identify risks, and explain recommendations to architects, engineers, and executives

Preferred / Nice to have

• 10+ years of progressive experience across banking technology, cloud architecture, consulting, or technology leadership
• Experience working directly for a bank, advising banking clients, or both
• Previous experience in consulting, professional services, systems integration, or a technology-provider environment
• Demonstrated responsibility for account growth, business development, or market development
• Experience leading major cloud transformation, platform modernization, or enterprise technology programs within a regulated bank
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing without direct authority