Cloud Solutions Architect

📋 Job Overview

We're hiring a Cloud Solutions Architect to join an established Canadian software company whose production-monitoring and reporting software is used by packaged goods manufacturers. Its products currently run on customer servers; this role designs and builds the company's first cloud-hosted offering from the ground up, from collecting manufacturing data at customer sites to the reporting customers use. The role offers a greenfield product to own end-to-end, with the autonomy to make the architectural calls that shape it.

🏢 About [Company]

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🎯 The Role

An architect who understands the full pipeline, from data collection at the source to customer-facing reporting, and how each part affects the others. Someone who stays hands-on, building and deploying what they design rather than handing it off. A self-starter who takes ownership in a small division where one person carries broad responsibility. Comfortable making sound decisions before every requirement is fully defined. A clear technical communicator who turns requirements into designs an engineering team can build.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design the architecture for a new multi-tenant SaaS product, from data ingestion at customer sites through cloud-hosted services to customer-facing reporting
• Build, deploy, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and backend components hands-on while the engineering team is hired
• Design data pipelines that move operational data from on-premises manufacturing environments into the cloud reliably and securely
• Define patterns for multi-tenancy, customer data isolation, scalability, and security
• Evaluate cloud platforms and technology options, recommending where to start small and how to scale based on cost and long-term maintainability
• Learn how the company's existing on-premises product works and carry that knowledge into a lighter cloud offering
• Deliver a starting proposal for the platform and the roles needed to build it within the first three months
• Stand up CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and monitoring for the new platform
• Work with a small group of early customers to identify what the product needs first

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a cloud or solutions architect, designing systems and making the platform and technology calls behind them
• Experience designing and building cloud systems end to end, not just contributing to a single layer
• Experience with more than one major cloud platform, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Experience building systems that ingest and process high volumes of operational data
• Significant experience designing and deploying databases at scale, including schema design, query performance, and storage trade-offs
• Strong grasp of distributed systems: data flow, service boundaries, failure modes, and resilience patterns
• Experience integrating cloud platforms with on-premises or operationally constrained environments
• Familiarity with SaaS patterns such as multi-tenancy, customer data isolation, and subscription-based delivery
• Experience producing cost analyses and platform recommendations that balance a small start against future growth

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in industrial, IoT or manufacturing environments
• Experience with .NET and SQL Server
• Experience building or anchoring a new engineering team

🎁 Benefits

Base Salary: $165,000 – $195,000
Competitive vacation and personal days to maintain a healthy work-life balance
Medical and dental benefits with fully employer-paid premiums to support your overall well-being
Employer contributions to a group RRSP program, supporting your long-term financial security

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.