Principal Architect, Compute & Storage Infrastructure
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Job Summary
Interested in joining one of Canadas top performing asset managers We are seeking a Principal Architect Compute & Storage Infrastructure to own the Compute & Storage domain within the Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering organization. This includes compute infrastructure virtualization platforms enterprise storage backup and recovery services container platforms and specialized compute environments that support modern application data and engineering workloads. This is not a pure management role. The focus is platform ownership: defining architecture standards and guardrails and ensuring platforms are scalable resilient secure and cost-efficient. At the same time strong delivery experience and hands-on technical depth are essential. You are expected to bring practicalexpertise make sound technical decisions and guide complex platform work with credibility. Our offices currently operate on a hybrid model with a combination of in-office and remote working days throughout the week.
What You Will Do
- Own the Compute & Storage platform domain including compute virtualization storage backup/recovery Kubernetes and specialized AI/ML and GPU platforms.
- Define and evolve platform architecture standards guardrails and service offerings to ensure scalability resilience security and cost efficiency.
- Establish workload placement hosting performance capacity and lifecycle management strategies across on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Develop storage data lifecycle backup and disaster recovery strategies that balance performance recoverability compliance and cost.
- Lead the design and evolution of platforms supporting large-scale unstructured data advanced analytics AI/ML and research workloads.
- Own GPU capacity planning scheduling and brokerage capabilities to support growing compute-intensive demand.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies including open-weight LLMs modern compute architectures and future infrastructure models.
- Partner with business engineering and technology teams to translate workload needs into platform capabilities roadmaps and investment priorities.
- Collaborate with Security Operations Architecture and other Platform Owners to ensure aligned integrated platform solutions.
- Guide SMEs and vendors by setting technical direction reviewing designs and driving key platform decisions and outcomes.
- Manage platform health through capacity forecasting performance optimization availability recovery readiness and cost management.
What You Bring
- 8 years of experience designing implementing and operating enterprise compute storage and infrastructure platforms.
- Deep expertise in virtualization compute storage backup/recovery and hybrid infrastructure technologies.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes container platforms and modern workload hosting environments.
- Experience supporting high-performance large-scale or data-intensive environments including AI/ML GPU grid or research computing platforms.
- Demonstrated success designing storage and compute architectures for large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
- Strong understanding of datacenter technologies including servers storage networking rack infrastructure power and cooling considerations.
- Experience integrating on-premises and cloud platforms and driving long-term infrastructure modernization strategies.
- Proven ability to define architecture standards influence technical direction and lead through expertise rather than direct authority.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes.
- Experience working with technology vendors on solution design lifecycle management and strategic roadmap planning.
- Builder mindset with the ability to balance standardization innovation and flexibility in rapidly evolving environments.
- Curiosity and interest in emerging infrastructure technologies including GPU orchestration open-weight AI models and custom compute approaches.
The expected salary for this position is$140000 - 150000 CAD.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 compensation for this position. Further questions may be directed to the HR team during the interview process.
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