• Serve as the principal technical advisor to the CTO/CIO and executive leadership team on all matters related to data strategy, integration architecture, and enterprise data platforms. • Define and own the enterprise-wide data and integration architecture vision, ensuring alignment with company-level business strategy, product roadmap, and growth objectives. • Drive technology strategy decisions that extend beyond the data ecosystem, influencing platform direction, build-vs-buy decisions, and technology investment priorities at the enterprise level. • Present architectural vision, risk assessments, and technology investment recommendations to executive leadership and, where appropriate, to the board. • Own and evolve the enterprise integration architecture spanning ERP, CRM, HR, and SaaS systems, setting the strategic direction for how the company’s systems ecosystem interconnects. • Establish enterprise-wide integration standards, patterns, and principles (batch, near-real-time, event-driven) that other architects and engineering teams execute against. • Provide architectural governance and oversight for large-scale integration initiatives (e.g., Workday implementations, M&A system integrations), ensuring alignment with enterprise standards. • Define non-functional standards for error handling, logging, monitoring, retry logic, and performance that become organizational defaults. • Own the target-state data platform architecture vision using Microsoft Fabric and related Azure services, setting the multi-year roadmap for the company’s data infrastructure. • Establish architectural principles for landing zone patterns, transformation layers, and modeling standards that engineering teams implement. • Ensure data platform strategy supports scalable, cost-effective designs that enable analytics, AI/ML, and product innovation. • Drive alignment between data ingestion pipelines and enterprise integration architecture to eliminate redundancy and technical debt. • Define and champion the enterprise data governance framework and operating model, establishing this as a strategic capability rather than a compliance exercise. • Establish data domains, ownership, stewardship, and metadata standards at the enterprise level, influencing cross-functional adoption. • Set the strategic direction for governance tooling (e.g., Microsoft Purview) including lineage, catalog, and classification, ensuring governance is embedded into platform and integration design from inception. • Lead the enterprise architecture review board (or equivalent), establishing architecture principles and standards that all technical teams adhere to. • Mentor and develop senior architects and technical leads across the organization, raising the overall technical bar and building architectural capability. • Influence hiring standards, technical interview frameworks, and career development pathways for architecture and senior engineering roles. • Create and maintain reference architectures, design guidelines, and architectural decision records that serve as the authoritative source for the engineering organization. • Shape engineering culture around architectural rigor, documentation standards, and design-first practices.

• Design, deploy, secure and optimize Kubernetes clusters (SAS Viya 4.0) • Automate Azure infrastructure deployments via CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions) • Implement AKS security controls (RBAC, Network Policies, Pod Security Standards, admission controllers) • Manage NFS and SMB volumes via Azure NetApp Files (CSI drivers, PV/PVC) • Administer AKS clusters: Kubernetes upgrades, node pools, certificates, ingress • Ensure logging, monitoring and optimization (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Container Insights) • Ensure multi-zone high availability and business continuity / disaster recovery plans • Enter hours weekly into the MFQ time management system (Excel template) • Provide continuous knowledge transfer to internal resources 6. Expected deliverables 1 - Architecture & design: Target AKS architecture dossier (logical/physical, network topology, HA/DR) · AKS diagrams · Standards and governance · FinOps recommendations 2 - Automation & CI/CD: CI/CD pipelines · Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep/ARM) · CI/CD operational documentation (secrets, rollback) 3 - Security: Controls report (RBAC, Network Policies, Admission Controllers) · Image scanning · Azure Policy for AKS · Risk analysis 4 - Storage (ANF): NFS/SMB volume configuration · AKS–ANF integration documentation · Capacity and performance plan 5 - Administration & operations: Operational runbooks · AKS administration guide · SAS Viya 4.0 update procedures 6 - Monitoring & optimization: Azure Monitor / Container Insights configuration · Dashboards · Cost optimization reports 7 - High availability & resilience: Multi-zone HA plan · Business continuity and disaster recovery plan · Resilience testing 8 - Knowledge transfer: Complete technical documentation · Training workshops · Post-deployment support (hypercare) 9 - Cluster maintenance & updates: Ongoing operational health · Application of updates and patches · Infrastructure incident management

Role Description The Lead Software Architect is responsible for defining and guiding enterprise and solution architecture strategy for complex, scalable platforms and applications that support core organizational functions. This role drives architectural direction through analysis, governance, standards, and technology evaluation, ensuring architectures meet current business needs while anticipating future capabilities. The Lead Software Architect partners closely with engineering leadership, product, security, and business stakeholders to ensure architectural alignment, influence roadmaps, and reduce delivery risk. This is a strategy-first role focused on design leadership, decision frameworks, and cross-team alignment. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of experience in software engineering, systems design, or solution architecture, with demonstrated ownership of architecture across multiple products/systems. - Proven experience leading architecture strategy, establishing standards, and conducting architecture reviews for large initiatives. - Deep knowledge of designing complex architectural frameworks and guiding multi-team technical direction without appreciable direction. - Strong ability to develop specifications for new products and enhancements and define integration concepts. - Experience creating and maintaining reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails. - Strong stakeholder communication and influence skills; ability to align technical strategy to business goals. - Ability to evaluate technology trends and recommend solutions that increase systems flexibility and cost-effectiveness. - Strong written and verbal communication skills (MS Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint). - Experience with wireless 4G and 5G communications networks. - Experience with SIP and IMS communications networks. - Experience with HTTP and RESTful Web-Service APIs. - Experience with large system deployments with complex data flows and message flows, with the ability to grasp the end-to-end system behavior and describe it to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences. - Ability to navigate, understand, and implement a variety of industry standards: 3GPP wireless 4G/5G, ATIS, IETF RFC’s, NENA. - Ability to estimate the development effort for new feature requests. - Ability to translate customer needs and requests into detailed technical requirements and provide guidance to the development teams with regard to the implementation of various features and capabilities. - Ability to maintain accurate and up-to-date functional requirements for multiple platforms and products. - Ability to work collaboratively with product, sales, development, deployment, and support teams. Requirements - Define, develop, and evolve application, platform, and system architectures aligned to business objectives and technical standards. - Create and maintain reference architectures, patterns, guardrails, and principles to guide development and delivery teams. - Establish and own architectural governance models (e.g., review processes, exception handling, architecture decision records). - Lead architectural reviews and provide recommendations on build/buy/integrate decisions for major initiatives. - Establish design, integration, and security standards to ensure consistency, maintainability, and long-term scalability. - Lead high-level architecture analysis and develop specifications for new products, platforms, and major enhancements. - Produce solution designs and architecture artifacts (current/future state diagrams, integration models, NFRs, decision logs, roadmaps). - Ensure architectures address non-functional requirements such as scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability. - Identify and mitigate architectural risks early; define options and tradeoffs for stakeholder decision-making. - Partner with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to ensure systems meet current and future needs. - Translate business strategy into technical direction and align multiple teams and systems to a cohesive architecture. - Communicate architecture decisions, standards, and roadmaps clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. - Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend options that increase cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and systems scalability. - Analyze current architectures to identify improvement opportunities and modernization paths. - Promote best practices for integration and architecture evolution, including interoperability with third-party solutions where relevant. - Provide architectural guidance for reliability and operational readiness (e.g., resiliency patterns, observability requirements, incident learnings into design). - Serve as an escalation point for architecture-related issues impacting delivery or stability; coordinate with appropriate teams for resolution. - Influence technical direction across teams through mentorship, architectural coaching, and facilitation of reviews and decision forums. - Coordinate the work of others to ensure architectural alignment and successful project completion. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage. - Paid time off. - Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP). - Tuition reimbursement. - Paid parental leave. - Access to a comprehensive library of personal and professional training resources. - Employee discounts. - Insurance coverage and more!

• Support the design and evolution of architectures in cloud and hybrid environments (on-premises + cloud) • Work alongside teams to build modern solutions (containers, microservices, CI/CD) • Contribute to architecture, deployment, and operations standards (GitOps, automation, best practices) • Support platform evolution (Kubernetes, Docker, Portainer, GitLab CI/CD) • Participate in infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) • Support troubleshooting and continuous improvement of environments • Contribute technical documentation and dissemination of best practices • Support initiatives for resilience, high availability, and system modernization