Principal Architect leading enterprise architecture, cloud, security, and modernization initiatives for BDO Canada. Guiding complex designs and mentoring architects across a blended work model.
About the role
- Principal Architect leading enterprise and solution architecture for BDO Canada’s professional services firm. Guiding cloud, security, data, integration, and modernization across complex initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for enterprise and solution architecture
- Set architecture direction and review deliverables
- Develop enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, roadmaps, patterns, and standards
- Lead architecture for complex, cross-enterprise initiatives
- Oversee design reviews to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable
- Guide decisions across application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, identity, security, and emerging technology domains
- Resolve complex trade-offs and architecture exceptions
- Partner with business, delivery, engineering, operations, vendors, and domain architects
- Advance modernization, reuse, rationalization, and technical debt reduction
- Coach and mentor architects
- Provide evidence-based feedback on performance, development planning, and work allocation
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience
- At least 10 years of progressive enterprise technology experience
- Substantial hands-on enterprise and solution architecture experience in a large, complex organization
- Experience leading architects through technical credibility, influence, coaching, mentoring, and design governance
- Deep expertise in enterprise and solution architecture
- Broad knowledge of cloud, applications, integration, identity, infrastructure, security, data, AI, and modern software delivery
- Ability to develop and critically assess complex designs
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry, integration and messaging platforms, event-driven architecture, and API management
- Strong systems thinking, technical judgment, communication, and stakeholder influence
- Ability to explain complex decisions to senior leaders and delivery teams
- Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or ITIL are considered an asset
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits from day one
- Flexible personal time off policy
- Wellness initiative reimbursement
- Extensive opportunities for learning and development
- Flexible work arrangements through a blended work model
- Opportunities to contribute to local and national community events and charity initiatives
- Inclusive and accessible workplace and application process
- Competitive total cash compensation
- Time working virtually, in the office, and at client sites
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