Application Solution Architect, Artificial Intelligence
📍 Location: Downtown Montreal, QC
🏢 Work model: Hybrid, 2 days on site per week
⏰ Schedule: 37.5 hours per week
Position summary
Our client is looking for a Senior Application Solution Architects specializing in Artificial Intelligence to support the integration and harmonization of AI and data architectures across an Azure and Databricks ecosystem.
The successful candidates will work with business units, IT teams, data specialists, and enterprise stakeholders to define scalable AI solutions, prioritize use cases, and ensure the security, performance, governance, and consistency of deployed architectures.
Main responsibilities
- Integrate, harmonize, and orchestrate existing AI and data architectures across Azure and Databricks environments.
- Design comprehensive AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Data services.
- Define and optimize integration patterns between Azure and Databricks, including Delta Lake, MLflow, data pipelines, and governance frameworks.
- Support business units in identifying, understanding, evaluating, and prioritizing AI and machine-learning use cases.
- Advise teams on data science approaches, advanced models, analytical pipelines, MLOps practices, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions.
- Ensure the consistency, security, performance, scalability, documentation, and operational readiness of AI solutions across the enterprise.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in solution architecture, AI architecture, data architecture, or a related discipline.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and integrating AI and machine-learning solutions within Microsoft Azure.
- Proven expertise with Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Databricks, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Azure Data services.
- Strong understanding of data science, machine learning, deep learning, advanced analytical models, data pipelines, governance, and MLOps.
- Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, influence stakeholders, work with ambiguity, and collaborate with business and IT teams on large-scale initiatives.
- Professional proficiency in French, with experience in executive communication, technical writing, ArchiMate modeling, Casewise, Confluence, Power BI, and Microsoft 365.
The successful candidate should demonstrate leadership, strategic thinking, customer orientation, innovation, strong analytical judgment, and a rigorous approach to solution architecture. Experience working with multiple stakeholders in complex and evolving environments is required.
