Contribute to the success of strategic initiatives at the heart of a constantly evolving Agile environment!
CGI Montréal is looking for a Software Architect who will serve as a strategic partner to both business and technology teams. You will be responsible for designing and evolving solutions that align with business objectives, technology strategies, and architecture best practices. By collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will help define high-performing, secure, and scalable architectures while influencing the technology directions that support the growth, innovation, and digital transformation of CGI and its clients.
Work model: Hybrid, 2 days/ week onsite
Location: Montréal
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Define and design end-to-end system architecture (microservices, event-driven, monolithic, cloud-native) aligned with business objectives
- Select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and platforms based on scalability, performance, and maintainability requirements
- Lead technical design discussions and validate architectural decisions across teams
- Ensure systems meet non-functional requirements (security, scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability)
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, promoting best practices and coding standards
- Collaborate with Product Owners, stakeholders, and business teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions
- Identify technical risks and define mitigation strategies, balancing trade-offs between cost, quality, and time-to-market
- Define and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and governance across projects
- Oversee system integration and interoperability between applications and services
- Drive adoption of cloud, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices
- Maintain architecture documentation (diagrams, decision records, guidelines)
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies to support innovation and continuous improvement
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, including at least 3 years in a Software Architect or Solutions Architect role
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, complex solutions in Agile environments
- Strong expertise in software architecture principles, distributed architectures (microservices, event-driven, cloud-native), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Solid knowledge of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, application security, resilience, high availability, and performance optimization
- Experience in API design, system integration, data management (SQL and NoSQL), and application of software design best practices (SOLID principles, Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design)
- Proficiency with architecture modeling and documentation tools and methodologies (UML, C4 Model, ArchiMate, ADR, or equivalent)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence architectural decisions, coach teams, and explain complex concepts to both technical and business stakeholders
- Experience in application modernization, cloud transformation, and enterprise architecture; relevant certifications (TOGAF, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, or equivalent) will be considered an asset
Location: Montreal
Work mode: Hybrid
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is 80 000$ et 135 000$. This role is an existing vacancy.
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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
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