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Data Architect
Yochana
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the architecture and modernization of our enterprise data platforms. This role is critical as we undertake a large-scale migration from…
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Data Architect
VySystems
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Job Summary We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the architecture and modernization of our enterprise data platforms. This role is critical as we undertake a large-scale…
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Data Architect
J&M Group
Toronto, ON
- Contract
Azure Solutions Architect / Databricks certifications
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Cloud Data Engineer
J&M Group
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect / Data Analytics)
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AI Architect
SPECTRAFORCE
Toronto, ON · North York, ON
- Contract
Strong expertise in modern data platforms and tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ETL/ELT, big data, cloud-based analytics, BI tools like Power BI).
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Data Solution Architect
Bombardier
Dorval, QC
- Full-time
Azure Solution Architect, Databricks Data Engineer/Architect, or equivalent certifications are considered assets
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Azure Solution Architect
J&M Group
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We are looking for an experienced Azure Solution Architect to support the design and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.
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Senior Data Engineer / Ingénieur(e) de données senior
Aduna Global
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
…design the lakehouse and build it yourself. It is not a pure architect position, and there is no separate team to hand your designs to. If you want to write code every week and still own…
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Senior Solution Architect (Data & AI Solution Specialist)
Tata Consultancy Services
Toronto, ON · Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- Full-time
Architect and implement scalable solutions using Snowflake and Databricks on AWS, GCP and Azure platforms.
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Solution Designer, Total Fund Solutions
PSP Investments | Investissements PSP
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
…particular focus on Web application solutions, Snowflake and Databricks data solutions, integrations, APIs, and AI-enabled…
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Manager, Supply Chain & Network Operations - Enterprise Architect & Delivery Leader
Deloitte
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
…EAM, AVEVA Connect, Cognite, Siemens Opcenter, Hexagon, or…
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Manager - Data Engineering (Microsoft Fabric Platform)
Deloitte
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Architect and deliver data ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelines using Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Spark, and SQL.
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Master Data Management & Engineering - Sr Consultant
Deloitte
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
As a Master Data Management & Engineering – Architect/ Specialist on our Data Modernization & Analytics team within the AI & Data practice, you are passionate about data and technology…
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Manager - Azure AI Engineering
Deloitte
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Integration with data platforms (Fabric, Databricks, ADLS)
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Network Security Architect
Deloitte
Calgary, AB
- Full-time
As a seasoned network security architect, you will lead a team of consultant, be a trusted advisor to drive deep technical advisory engagements for Deloitte’s clients. Leverage your deep…
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Solutions Architect
Appnovation Technologies
Toronto, ON
We are seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to define the architecture for a governed, zero-copy, cross-cloud data platform, establishing the design standards and integration priorities…
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Solution Designer, Total Fund Solutions
Public Sector Pension Investment Board
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
…particular focus on Web application solutions, Snowflake and Databricks data solutions, integrations, APIs, and AI-enabled…
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Spécialiste en Ingénierie de données | Data Engineering Specialist
Pratt & Whitney
Longueuil, QC
- Full-time
Mettre en œuvre des architectures batch et streaming dans un environnement Databricks et AWS
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Technical Architect
Mphasis
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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AI and Data - Data Architect (Databricks)
EY
Toronto, ON
We are seeking a Manager/ Data Architect for our AI & Data practice team. We are looking for a candidate with strong technical leadership background, hands experience with Data Bricks,…
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Tech Data Delivery Lead
Accenture
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
…the morning and a technical design review with a client Chief Architect in the afternoon and be equally credible in both rooms. As a Technology Delivery Lead within our AI-Ready Data tower,…
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Staff DevOps Engineer
Nexxa.AI
Remote, Canada
- Full-time
- Remote
Architect and manage Kubernetes-based platforms for training, inference, and application workloads, including GPU scheduling and autoscaling
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Manager, Data Platform(s) Architect, Data & AI
KPMG
Calgary, AB · Vancouver, BC
- Full-time
Architect and develop overall end-to-end design of data and analytics solutions across Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, pipelines on modern data platforms such as Microsoft…
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Chief Architect - Data Engineering (Databricks Practice)
Unison Group
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We are building a fast-growing Databricks practice delivering enterprise data and AI solutions across APAC. As Lead Solution Architect - Data Engineering, you will be the technical anchor…
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Associate LLM Engineer (Forward Deployment)
ZS
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Utilize Databricks capabilities, esp. Unity Catalog and be able to architect the governance layer from data all-the-way to the AI model output

Appnovation Technologies

Solutions Architect

Toronto, ON, Canada

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Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 1, 2026

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About us

Appnovation is a global, full-service digital partner that combines Strategy, Experience & Design, Engineering and Managed Services. We build digital solutions that deliver real impact today and serve as foundations for future growth. Bold ambition. Practical action. Endless possibilities.

Technology is foundational to all of Appnovation’s offerings, from consulting to digital innovation to digital product and service creation. The technology department is focused on delivering software solutions that enable rich consumer experiences, from mobile and web applications to advanced analytics and machine learning, to content and engagement management service enablement platforms.

Inherent throughout our tech capabilities is deep expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle, a drive for creativity, a passion for the craft, and collaboration with other disciplines - all foundational ingredients in successful digital experiences and client partnerships.

We are seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to define the architecture for a governed, zero-copy, cross-cloud data platform, establishing the design standards and integration priorities that guide the engineering team. Working across Databricks, Snowflake, and adjacent cloud data sources, this leader will translate an evolving product vision into concrete design specifications and a clear path toward agent-based data consumption, while ensuring alignment with the organization’s existing enterprise engineering practices. The role is accountable for owning the end-to-end solution architecture of a governed, zero-copy data platform in which data remains in place within its source systems. This position requires a senior, hands-on technical leader who can operate at the intersection of platform strategy, modern data engineering, and architectural governance - creating clarity from complexity, making sound build-versus-integrate trade-offs, and setting the technical standards that help Appnovation’s clients deliver faster, safer, and more reusable data capabilities.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Solution Architecture Ownership: Own the end-to-end solution architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform in which data remains in place within its source systems, working across Databricks, Snowflake, and adjacent cloud data sources.
Architecture Artifacts and Standards: Produce architecture artifacts - decision records, reference architectures, and solution diagrams - establish the design standards that guide the engineering team, and provide clear build-versus-integrate recommendations.
Catalog and Metadata Integration: Define and prioritize catalog and metadata integration patterns across cloud and lakehouse environments.
Agent-Based Access Design: Design agent- and MCP-based access patterns that expose governed data products to enterprise AI tools and agent platforms.
Future-State Direction: Establish future-state direction for data products, cross-source data composition, and agentic consumption, translating an evolving product vision into concrete design specifications.
Enterprise Alignment: Ensure alignment with the organization’s existing enterprise engineering practices while guiding the engineering team toward a clear path for agent-based data consumption.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, with 10+ years of technology experience, including significant experience in solution, enterprise, or data architecture.
Senior solutions or enterprise architect with demonstrated experience designing cross-cloud and multi-cloud data architectures.
Proven application of zero-copy, data-mesh, and data-product principles, including domain-driven design.
Deep expertise in data governance, including attribute- and role-based access control, data sensitivity and policy classification, and geolocation-based access requirements.
Experience defining data-contract standards (e.g., the Linux Foundation / Open Data Contract Standard) and embedding governance metadata into platform workflows.
Strong background in identity and access management for both users and machine/agent identities (OAuth/OIDC, service accounts).
Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and documentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Prior experience in a consulting or client-facing delivery environment, working across multiple concurrent initiatives and priorities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Familiarity with semantic layers, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and retrieval-augmented generation or vector search for data discovery.
Awareness of cross-cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
Experience operating in a regulated life-sciences or comparable compliance-driven environment (GxP, GDPR/HIPAA, PII/PHI handling).

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Data platforms: Databricks, Snowflake; AWS-native data a plus.
Governance and catalog: Collibra, Unity Catalog, Horizon; Neo4j and knowledge graphs.
AI and agents: MCP, Snowflake Cortex and Genie, vector search and embeddings.
Formats and contracts: Apache Iceberg and open table formats, YAML-based data contracts.
Foundations: Python; OAuth/OIDC and identity providers; infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES

Architectural Strategy and Judgment: Connects business priorities, enterprise architecture standards, and emerging technology into a practical target architecture that guides design and investment.
Influence and Partnership: Communicates clearly with engineering teams and senior stakeholders, frames build-versus-integrate trade-offs, builds alignment, and drives decisions without relying solely on formal authority.
Technical Depth and Breadth: Brings hands-on credibility across cloud data platforms, governance, and agent-based access to guide engineers, challenge assumptions, evaluate emerging technologies, and make sound platform-scale technology choices.
Governance Mindset: Embeds data governance, access control, and data-contract standards into platform workflows, balancing the openness of governed data products with security, privacy, and compliance.
AI and Modern Delivery Mindset: Understands how agentic consumption, MCP-based access, and modern data-product thinking can responsibly expose governed data to enterprise AI while maintaining appropriate controls and verification.

WHO YOU ARE

You have a customer-first mindset and a devotion to customer service
You can influence technology choices with both engineers and senior leaders
You engage and build positive internal and external client relationships, while managing multiple initiatives, often with competing priorities
You have strong self-initiative, passion, interpersonal, oral and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work, influence and make an impact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of the organization
You can take an evolving product vision and business requirements and transform them into concrete technical designs and specifications for software developers, data engineers, and other technology stakeholders
You can explain complex technical solutions engagingly to technical and non-technical audiences and connect technological solutions with measurable business value.
You have solid analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
You set high standards for architecture quality, governance, performance/scalability and security and seek continuous improvement
You are responsive and thrive in a fast-paced diverse high-performance environment with rapidly changing business needs
You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
You are comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and rapid-growth environment
You have prior experience in consulting and client negotiations
Prior experience and connections in the Life Sciences industry is preferred

Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies! Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Appnovation, we recognize that diverse teams are the strongest teams. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only something that we embrace - we celebrate it! We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds, lived experiences and industries to apply. Come join us at Appnovation, and learn more about how we stay true to our company values as we build better lives through better digital.

Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.

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Responsibilities

The Principal Solutions Architect will own the end-to-end architecture for a governed, zero-copy cross-cloud data platform. They will establish design standards, define integration patterns, and guide the engineering team in delivering scalable data capabilities.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and over 10 years of experience in solution or data architecture. Proven expertise in multi-cloud environments, data governance, and modern data engineering principles is required.

Skills

Solutions Architecture
Data Engineering
Databricks
Snowflake
Data Governance
Cloud Architecture
Data Mesh
Data Products
Identity And Access Management
Python
Infrastructure-as-code
Terraform
Metadata Integration
Agent-based Access
Stakeholder Management
Consulting

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Keywords

Solutions Architect
Databricks
Snowflake
Zero-copy
Data Mesh
Data Governance
Cloud Data Platform
Metadata Integration
Agent-based Consumption
Python
Terraform
OAuth
OIDC
Apache Iceberg
Data Contracts
Collibra
Unity Catalog
Neo4j
Knowledge Graphs
Vector Search
FinOps
Life Sciences
GxP
GDPR
HIPAA
Consulting
Enterprise Architecture
Domain-driven Design
Infrastructure-as-code
MCP

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