Architect at Petal, designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for healthcare solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape technical designs, improve consistency, and mentor developers.
Responsibilities
Own the technical architecture for your delivery team's product area, defining how shared cloud services, tooling, and architectural patterns are designed and consumed by product teams.
Work in "Sprint 0" mode primarily, staying ahead of development by designing solutions, creating architectural documentation, and preparing technical foundations for upcoming work.
Support ongoing development by being available to address architectural questions, adjust designs based on implementation learnings, and guide the team through complex technical challenges.
Collaborate closely with Product Management and Design from early discovery phases to understand requirements deeply and shape technically sound, feasible solutions.
Partner with the Development Manager to ensure architectural decisions align with team capacity, timelines, and delivery goals.
Define detailed architectural requirements and constraints while empowering Technical Leads to determine implementation specifics.
Coordinate with other Architects and Principal Developers on integration patterns, cross-system dependencies, and how your team's architecture fits within Petal's broader technical ecosystem.
Create and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including system diagrams, technical decision records, integration specifications, and design patterns.
Set and enforce technical standards within your delivery team, conducting architecture reviews and ensuring alignment with organizational best practices.
Develop proof-of-concepts and technical spikes when needed to validate architectural approaches, explore new technologies, or de-risk complex implementations.
Manage technical debt strategically, working with the team to balance new feature development with architectural improvements and system sustainability.
Mentor Technical Leads and senior developers in architectural thinking, system design principles, and making sound technical decisions.
Present and communicate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, articulating trade-offs, risks, and rationale clearly.
Drive continuous improvement in architectural practices, sharing knowledge across the architecture community and contributing to Petal's technical evolution.
Requirements
10+ years of software development, infrastructure development and architecture experience, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, production-scale systems.
Strong full-stack architectural knowledge, spanning application layers, infrastructure, data storage, APIs, and cloud services, with sufficient depth to make informed decisions across the entire technical stack.
Strong understanding of cloud-provider-specific services and trade-offs, and how they influence platform and infrastructure design decisions.
Specific experience building infrastructure platforms with Azure, AWS, GCP and/or other cloud providers using infrastructure-as-code approach.
Expert-level system design skills, with the ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs, design for scalability and resilience, and choose appropriate patterns for different contexts.
Experience working in multidisciplinary product teams, collaborating closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Development Managers to shape solutions from concept to production.
Proven ability to create clear, comprehensive technical documentation that enables teams to execute on architectural vision and maintain systems over time.
Strong understanding of integration patterns and distributed systems, with experience coordinating across multiple services and ensuring cohesive system behavior.
Technical standards and governance experience, including conducting architecture reviews, managing technical debt, and establishing best practices.
Demonstrated mentorship capabilities, guiding Technical Leads and senior engineers in architectural thinking and technical decision-making.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and build consensus around architectural decisions.
Strategic and forward-thinking mindset, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term architectural sustainability and scalability.
Hands-on technical capability, comfortable building proof-of-concepts and diving into code when needed to validate architectural approaches.
Collaborative leadership style, influencing through expertise and partnership rather than authority, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Experience with modern cloud platforms and DevOps practices, understanding how architectural decisions impact deployment, operations, and maintenance.
Benefits
Recurring hybrid work allowance;
Compensation that recognizes your contribution;
4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation per year;
5 paid personal days per year;
A group RRSP / DPSP plan with employer contribution;
A complete group insurance plan, from day 1;
An annual wellness allowance;
Access to the Lumino Health™ telehealth application;
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