Senior Architect

Dasro is looking for a Senior Architect for one of its clients in Calgary, AB.

Job title: Architect (Solution, Network, Infrastructure, Telecom, etc.) (Senior)

Location: Calgary, AB, Canada

Term: Start date:11/02/2026. End date: 04/30/2027

Working Hours: 8 Hours per day. 40 Hours per week

Job industry: Utilities and Energy

Description:

The Portfolio Architect, Technology Resilience is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the architecture, standards, patterns, and technology roadmap supporting client's Technology Resilience capability.

Reporting to the Technology Resilience team, this role provides architecture leadership for Disaster Recovery (DR), Minimum Viable Company (MVC), Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, Recovery Automation, Reliability Engineering, and Enterprise Dependency Architecture. The role serves as the architectural lead for resilience initiatives and is accountable for embedding resilience-by-design principles into technology services, platforms, and strategic investments.

Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Operations teams, the Portfolio Architect ensures resilience requirements are integrated into enterprise technology decisions while advancing the organization's maturity through automation, observability, dependency intelligence, and modern engineering practices.

Enable resilient, recoverable, and reliable technology services through architectural leadership, recovery automation, dependency intelligence, and resilience-by-design standards that protect and sustain client's critical business capabilities during disruption.

Responsibilities:

Technology Resilience Architecture

• Own the Technology Resilience architecture domain, roadmap, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Define target-state architectures supporting Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, and Technology Continuity.
• Establish resilience-by-design principles that can be applied consistently across technology portfolios and platforms.
• Provide architectural leadership, governance, and design assurance for resilience-related initiatives and investments.

Recovery Engineering & Automation

• Lead the evolution from traditional disaster recovery practices toward automated resilience capabilities.
• Define architecture patterns supporting Disaster Recovery as Code (DRaaC), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), orchestration, automated failover, and recovery validation.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve recovery automation, reduce manual intervention, and increase recovery repeatability and auditability.
• Promote modern engineering practices that improve recoverability, operational efficiency, and resilience outcomes.

Reliability Engineering & Observability

• Incorporate Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles into resilience architecture standards and practices.
• Define architectural requirements for observability, resiliency telemetry, monitoring, and automated recovery triggers.
• Support the adoption of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), resilience metrics, continuous validation, and resilience testing practices.
• Ensure lessons learned from incidents, exercises, and disruptions are incorporated into architecture standards and recovery patterns.

Business Capability & Dependency Architecture

• Establish architecture models connecting business capabilities, critical business services, applications, infrastructure, data, integrations, and third-party services.
• Define enterprise dependency architecture standards and recovery sequencing models.
• Advance ServiceNow CMDB and service mapping capabilities as foundational components of dependency intelligence and recovery planning.
• Drive architecture simplification and reduction of resilience-related technical debt across the technology portfolio.

Strategic Partnership & Governance

• Operate in close partnership with the Enterprise Security Architecture team to jointly advance cyber resilience, cyber recovery, and secure recovery capabilities.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align resilience capabilities with enterprise technology strategies, standards, and target-state architectures.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Operations teams to embed resilience requirements into technology platforms and services.
• Support technology governance, architecture reviews, investment planning, and resilience maturity improvement initiatives.
• Provide strategic architectural guidance regarding resilience risks, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities

Success Measures

• Increased adoption of resilience-by-design architecture standards across technology portfolios.
• Improved dependency visibility, service mapping coverage, and architectural alignment of critical business services.
• Increased automation of recovery processes and reduction of manual recovery effort.
• Improved resilience maturity, recoverability, and audit readiness.
• Reduced resilience-related technology risk and technical debt.
• Strong alignment between Technology Resilience, Enterprise Security Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering organizations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in architecture, engineering, infrastructure, cloud, reliability engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience in Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture, or Technology Strategy.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, High Availability, or Reliability Engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, recovery automation, dependency mapping, observability, and operational resilience practices.
• Experience with ServiceNow CMDB, service mapping, SRE, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and modern cloud operating models is considered an asset.