About this role
Job Description
The client is modernizing an on-premises enterprise solution and needs the architect who will lead the migration of data, processing and application components to an Azure Databricks platform.
The role is hands-on
current and target state analysis, data models, POCs, code reviews, developer coaching and effort estimation. The profile must meet two distinct layers: the framework agreement profile 3-4 requirements, focused on application architecture (SOA, commercial software integration, implementation strategies, executive documents), and the mandate-specific requirements, focused on modern analytics architecture and big data. A data architect without documented application work fails the first layer; an application architect without Lakehouse or Spark fails the second. Level 2 security clearance from the ministère de la Sécurité publique and Quebec-only remote work narrow the pool further.
Target candidate: an application architect with 15+ years in IT, including at least 7 in architecture, who has led at least two large-scale cloud migrations and designed a Lakehouse architecture on Databricks and Spark from a SQL Server, SSIS or .NET legacy. They document, mandate by mandate, their system architecture, SOA and commercial software integration roles, and bring hands-on graph database and IaC experience.
Key Requirements
- Modern analytics architecture design (Data Lake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Medallion)
- Processing and analysis of very large data volumes (Big data)
- Mastery of Spark and distributed processing
- Mastery of pragmatic migration patterns
- Rapid proofs of concept (POC)
- Hybrid solutions (cloud and on-premises)
- At least 2 large-scale data or application cloud migration mandates
- Knowledge of Databricks, Python and .NET
- Graph database design and operation (complex relationship analysis)
- Cloud deployment and configuration automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Professional skills: teamwork, autonomy, rigour, leadership, mobilization, tolerance for ambiguity and stress
Requirements
ASSET
- DevSecOps practices
- Ability to explain technology in plain terms
- Defining architectural vision in an Agile organization
Profiles to Exclude
- Data architect or engineer without documented SOA, commercial software integration or implementation strategy mandates.
- .NET application architec