Principal Architect, Cloud & Identity Infrastructure

Interested in joining one of Canadas top performing asset managers We are seeking a Principal Architect Cloud & Identity Infrastructure to own the Cloud & Identity domain within the Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering organization. This includes public cloud platforms (Azure AWS) identity and access management (Entra ID Active Directory hybrid identity) and Microsoft 365 platform services. The focus is platform ownership: defining architecture standards and guardrails and ensuring platforms are scalable secure and cost-efficient. At the same time strong delivery experience and hands-on technical depth are essential. You are expected to bring practical expertise make sound technical decisions and guide complex work with credibility while remaining accountable for direction and outcomes.You will act as the primary platform interface to business and application teams translating needs into platform capabilities and clearly communicating strategy constraints and changes. You willoperateas a senior individual contributor working closely with other Platform Owners Security and Operations. Engineering work is executed by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) but youremainclosely involvedin design decisions complex problem-solving and key technical trade-offs. You will treat platforms as products enabling reusable patterns and low-friction consumption so teams can move faster with minimal dependency on central teams. Our offices currently operate on a hybrid model with three days in office.

What You Will Do

• You will own the Cloud & Identity platform domain and be accountable for its health direction and outcomes. This includes Azure and AWS platformsidentityand access management across Entra ID and Active Directory and Microsoft 365 from an architecture security and integration perspective.
• You will define target architectures standards and guardrails to ensure scalability security cost efficiency and consistency across the organization. You will drive deliberate platform decisions and reduce fragmentation.
• You will own the organizations identity foundation including authentication and authorization models access patterns and security controls across cloud and legacy environments.
• Your ownership also includes how the platform is understood and consumed ensuring clear communication of capabilities constraints and roadmap to business and cross-functional stakeholders. You will partner with other Platform Owners to ensure clear boundaries and integration points while SMEs execute implementation aligned to your standards.
• You are accountable for platform outcomes including scalability cost efficiency access integrity and reliability and for evolving the platform proactively based on business needs.
• Cloud & Identity Platforms: Own and evolve cloud platforms across Azure and AWS and define how services are consumed.Provide architectural guidance in partnership with other Platform Owners (compute network storage).Ensure platforms meet requirements for scalability resilience observability and recovery
• Identity & Microsoft Platforms: Own identity and access management across Entra ID Active Directory and hybrid environments. Define authentication authorization and privileged access standards in partnership with Security.Own Microsoft 365 architecture security configuration and identity integration partnering with Workplace Technology on end-user experience and adoption
• Architecture Standards & Governance: Define and enforce platform standards guardrails and reusable patterns. Drive consistent low-friction platform consumption models (self-service where possible).Balance innovation with stability security and long-term sustainability
• Business & Cross-Functional Engagement: Act as the primary platform point of contact for business and application teams.Translate business needs into platform capabilities standards and roadmap priorities.Communicate platform strategy changes and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.Work closely with Security Operations and Architecture to align priorities and resolve dependencies
• Cross-Domain Collaboration: Work with other Platform Owners to define clear integration points and avoid overlap.Guide SMEs by setting direction reviewing designs and ensuring alignment with standards.Drive technical decisions and influence direction across teams and stakeholders
• Cost & Platform Health:Define and enforce cost management practices (tagging allocation optimization).Track and improve platform health across reliability performance cost and adoption

What You Bring

• Senior-level experience (typically10 years) across enterprise infrastructure and cloud platforms

• Strong background in hybrid environments (on-premises and public cloud integration)

• Deep knowledge of:Modern identity (Entra ID Conditional Access MFA SSO federation identity governance PIM/JIT)Microsoft 365 services (Exchange Online Teams SharePoint OneDrive)Core infrastructure (Windows Server Exchange virtualization storage networking)

• Practical experience with Azure and AWS

• Understanding of automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform ARM Bicep CI/CD)
  
• Platform-owner mindset focused on long-term outcomes and business impact with strong decision-making in complex environments

• Clear communicator across technical and business audiences

• Pragmatic and outcome-driven comfortable with legacy and modern environments

The salary range for this position is $140000 - $150000. The salary rangeprovidedreflects the base salary range for this position as required by addition there is an annual performance bonus which contributes to the total compensationofthis position. Further questions may be directedtothe HR team during the interview process.

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