Global Head of Architecture

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Global Head of Architecture based in Canada.

As Global Head of Architecture, you will lead the architectural vision and technical excellence of a growing team delivering innovative cloud, data, and AI solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role combining complex technical architecture, people management, and strategic client engagement. You will shape and oversee production-grade solutions across Google Cloud, data platforms, software engineering, and AI applications. Working closely with engineering and delivery teams, you will establish architectural standards, drive technical innovation, and ensure high-quality project execution. You will also influence business growth through client partnerships, solution design, and pre-sales activities. Join a fully remote, international environment where technical expertise, collaboration, and continuous innovation are central to success.

Accountabilities:

Define and lead target architectures across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and application environments, primarily using Google Cloud technologies.

• Take a hands-on approach to engineering by developing prototypes, writing infrastructure-as-code, reviewing pull requests, and resolving complex technical challenges.

• Own key architectural decisions, ensuring solutions address security, scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and long-term maintainability.

• Act as the architectural authority on major client engagements, overseeing design quality and ensuring technical consistency across delivery teams.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of architects through performance management, career planning, coaching, and professional development.

• Establish architectural standards, reusable design patterns, documentation practices, and decision-making frameworks across projects and regions.

• Strengthen the architecture function through recruitment, training, design reviews, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and communities of practice.

• Collaborate with delivery leadership to allocate architectural resources effectively and align expertise with project requirements.

• Support business development and pre-sales activities by shaping technical solutions, preparing estimates, contributing to proposals, and identifying delivery risks.

• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, including engineering leaders and CTOs, while representing technical expertise in industry events and strategic partnerships.

• Integrate AI agents into engineering and architecture workflows, overseeing their development, versioning, evaluation, operation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade cloud architectures, preferably on Google Cloud, with relevant AWS or Azure experience also considered.

• Strong engineering foundations, with senior-level expertise in at least one discipline, such as platform engineering, data engineering, software engineering, or machine learning engineering.

• Broad systems architecture knowledge covering networking, cybersecurity, identity and access management, data platforms, and application architecture.

• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and programming languages such as Python.

• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineering and architecture teams, with the ability to establish standards and elevate technical capabilities.

• Proven experience leading client-facing architecture discussions, engaging senior stakeholders, and contributing to pre-sales and solution design activities.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and architectural trade-offs clearly to diverse audiences.

• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, manage competing priorities, and make sound technical decisions in complex delivery environments.

Nice-to-have qualifications:

• Google Cloud certifications, particularly Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent.

• Experience with multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and complex enterprise integration environments.

• Familiarity with formal enterprise architecture methodologies, such as TOGAF.

• Experience designing and delivering production machine learning platforms, generative AI applications, or agentic systems.

• Previous experience in technology consulting, professional services, or client-focused engineering environments.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package.

• Fully remote working environment, with the opportunity to work from anywhere in Canada.

• 20 days of paid vacation annually.

• Provincial public holidays.

• 5 wellness days for sickness, personal needs, or mental health.

• 5 additional lifestyle days for religious events, volunteering, or personal circumstances.

• Matching group retirement savings plan after three months of employment.

• Comprehensive group insurance coverage from day one, with 100% of individual premiums covered by the employer.

• Fully employer-paid virtual medical services and family assistance program.

• Home office budget to support a productive remote workspace.

• CAD $70 monthly allowance for internet and phone expenses.

• Company-provided MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.

• CAD $400 annual budget for books, relevant subscriptions, and e-readers.

• Financial support for professional certifications.

• Access to Udemy Business for continuous professional and personal development.

• Regular company-wide off-sites and team meetups.

• Opportunities to collaborate with international experts in cloud computing, data engineering, and artificial intelligence.

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