Software Architect / Technical Lead

Position Description:

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 $ et $. This role is an existing vacancy.

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Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.

Use of the term ‘architect’ in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices architecture or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial architect regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT architect-related functions, but licensure from an architect regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Architecture is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

Skills:

• English
• French
• Concept Design
• Continuous Improvement
• DevOps
• Legacy System Integration
• Software Architecture