Lead Architect

3 days ago

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, Canada Resonaite Full-time

Our client in the Fintech space is seeking a Lead Architect to evolve its core technology architecture across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data platforms, and AI-enabled systems.

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the long-term platform architecture across cloud services, APIs, data infrastructure, and AI systems.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to align architectural strategy with business goals.
  • Guide technology decisions balancing performance, maintainability, security, and future growth.
  • Drive the design of scalable, secure, and reliable distributed systems, including integrations and data pipelines.
  • Lead architectural reviews and establish reference patterns, proofs of concept, and engineering standards.
  • Partner with data and machine-learning teams to shape next-generation AI-ready infrastructure.
  • Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and help shape the engineering culture and technical hiring.

Requirements

  • 15+ years in software engineering with at least 5+ in senior or architectural leadership roles.
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and large-scale architectures.
  • Solid understanding of data systems, data modeling, APIs, and experience with integrating AI/ML systems is highly valued.
  • Experience shaping standards, reference architectures, and scalable patterns that improve velocity and quality.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

  • Information Technology
  • Software Development