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Principal Systems Architect
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- 10+ years experience in Information Technology, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, system architecture, engineering, or related technology roles
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Job Summary
The incumbent is accountable for the architecture of assigned initiatives, products, systems, or features within an Agile Release Train (ART). The role translates business, functional, non-functional, security, and operational requirements into scalable and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise standards and solution architecture direction. The incumbent collaborates with Solution Architects, Principal System Architects, engineering teams, and product teams to support successful delivery and technology modernization initiatives.
Main Responsibilities
System Architecture and Solution Delivery
The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular workweek from Monday to Friday and is eligible to participate in CN's hybrid work model. The role requires occasional business travel within Canada and the United States in accordance with CN policy.
Experience
Signals and Communications
The incumbent is accountable for the architecture of assigned initiatives, products, systems, or features within an Agile Release Train (ART). The role translates business, functional, non-functional, security, and operational requirements into scalable and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise standards and solution architecture direction. The incumbent collaborates with Solution Architects, Principal System Architects, engineering teams, and product teams to support successful delivery and technology modernization initiatives.
Main Responsibilities
System Architecture and Solution Delivery
- Support epic refinement, feature analysis, and solution design activities.
- Analyze business, functional, non-functional, security, and operational requirements.
- Define system architectures and design patterns for assigned initiatives and products.
- Develop architecture artifacts aligned with enterprise and solution architecture guidance.
- Ensure solution designs comply with architecture standards, principles, and governance requirements.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, data, security, platform, and integration teams.
- Participate in PI Planning and delivery planning activities.
- Support implementation teams by resolving technical issues and design challenges.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, risk assessments, and technology evaluations.
- Maintain architecture documentation, standards, patterns, and repositories.
- Provide technical guidance to Solution Designers and delivery teams.
- Share architecture best practices and reusable patterns.
- Contribute to architecture community forums and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations for adoption.
- Support continuous improvement of architecture processes, standards, and governance practices.
- Collaborate with business, product, architecture, cybersecurity, and engineering teams.
- Present architectural recommendations and design decisions to project stakeholders.
- Support alignment between business needs, delivery timelines, and technical constraints.
- Contribute to architecture governance forums and decision-making processes.
The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular workweek from Monday to Friday and is eligible to participate in CN's hybrid work model. The role requires occasional business travel within Canada and the United States in accordance with CN policy.
Experience
Signals and Communications
- 10+ years experience in Information Technology, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, system architecture, engineering, or related technology roles
- Minimum 3 years defining solution or system architectures for medium to large technology initiatives
- Experience developing architecture artifacts, technical roadmaps, standards, and implementation guidance
- Experience working within Agile, SAFe, product delivery, or project delivery environments
- Railroad, transportation, or global industrial experience*
- Candidates with an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered
- Any requirement marked with (*) will be considered an asset (not mandatory)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or System Analysis
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Google Professional Cloud Architect, SAFe Architect certification*
- Candidates with equivalent practical experience, education, or training will be considered
- Any requirement marked with (*) will be considered an asset (not mandatory)
- We Care About Each Other
- We Strive for Excellence
- We Succeed Together
- We Lead Responsibly
- Compliance
- Business acumen
- High
- Conveying the vision
- Coordination
- Information Architecture and enterprise data domains
- Business, information, and data architecture alignment
- Conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling
- Master Data Management (MDM), reference data management, and data quality frameworks
- Enterprise data integration, information exchange, and data lifecycle management
- Metadata management, business glossaries, data catalogs, and enterprise information management
- Data Governance frameworks, including data ownership, stewardship, accountability, policy management, and governance operating models
- Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), including data discovery, classification, risk identification, sensitive data monitoring, and remediation strategies
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) architectures and controls to protect sensitive, confidential, and regulated information across applications, platforms, collaboration tools, and cloud environments
- Information security and privacy-by-design principles, including data protection, retention, regulatory compliance, and information risk management
- Data platform architectures, including data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, and modern data ecosystems
- Analytics, business intelligence, AI-enabled data ecosystems, and trusted data products
- Enterprise information sharing, data interoperability, and event-driven information architectures
- Data lineage, traceability, auditability, and information lifecycle governance.
- Data modernization strategies, including cloud-based data services, data migration, and platform rationalization
- Architecture governance, standards, reference models, and controls to ensure information consistency, quality, security, and reuse across the enterprise
More about this job
Responsibilities
Define and document scalable system architectures for assigned initiatives, translating business, functional, security, and operational requirements into solutions aligned with enterprise standards. Guide delivery teams, support planning and implementation, contribute to architecture governance and technology evaluations, and collaborate with business, product, security, and engineering stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires 10+ years of experience in IT or related technology roles, including at least three years defining architectures for medium-to-large initiatives, and experience producing architecture artifacts, roadmaps, standards, and implementation guidance. A bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field is listed, while TOGAF, ITIL, Google Professional Cloud Architect, and SAFe Architect certifications are assets; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
Skills
- System Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture
- Architecture Governance
- Agile
- SAFe
- Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- Master Data Management
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Data Loss Prevention
- Data Integration
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Technical Leadership
- Stakeholder Collaboration
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Data & Analytics
- Management & Leadership
- Transportation
Keywords
- System Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture
- Agile Release Train
- Agile
- SAFe
- PI Planning
- Architecture Governance
- Architecture Artifacts
- Technical Roadmaps
- Information Architecture
- Enterprise Data Architecture
- Conceptual Data Modeling
- Logical Data Modeling
- Physical Data Modeling
- Master Data Management
- Data Governance
- Data Security Posture Management
- Data Loss Prevention
- Data Integration
- Metadata Management
- Data Lineage
- Data Lakes
- Lakehouses
- Data Warehouses
- Cloud Data Services
- Event-Driven Architecture
- TOGAF
- ITIL
- Google Professional Cloud Architect