AI & Data Architect

About Highspring

Highspring is a next-generation consulting and professional services firm. We deliver modern, agile, and forward-thinking solutions to our clients across North America. We work with some of the most innovative organizations across industries to help them accelerate transformation through technology, data, and innovation. At Highspring, we believe in empowering our people, fostering technical leadership, and delivering meaningful business impact.

The Opportunity

Highspring is seeking an experienced AI & Data Architect to join a strategic Data and AI transformation initiative within a large enterprise environment. This role will focus on evolving enterprise Data and AI platforms, defining architecture strategies, and enabling the adoption of modern cloud-native and AI-driven capabilities.
You will work closely with architecture, engineering, business, and delivery teams to design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions while supporting enterprise modernization efforts.

What You'll Do

Define, evolve, and communicate enterprise Data & AI architecture strategies, roadmaps, standards, and design patterns.
Design cloud-native Data and AI platforms that are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Develop architecture blueprints and implementation approaches that comply with security, governance, and operational requirements.
Architect AI/ML platforms and solutions, including model training, experimentation, deployment, serving, feature stores, and MLOps capabilities.
Drive the adoption of Generative AI, event-driven architectures, serverless computing, DevSecOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code.
Lead technical assessments, cost evaluations, risk analyses, and build-versus-buy recommendations.
Partner with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure successful solution alignment and execution.
Manage complex cross-functional dependencies and support major platform transformation and migration initiatives.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple workstreams.

What You Bring to the Table

10+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, preferably within enterprise-scale Data and AI environments.
Demonstrated experience designing and delivering cloud-based Data and AI platforms.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence architecture decisions and align diverse stakeholders.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and business audiences.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
Ability to manage multiple initiatives while balancing strategy and execution.
Professional proficiency in both French and English.

Core Skills Required

Cloud Architecture
Deep expertise with AWS cloud services, including:
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon API Gateway
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon SageMaker
AWS AgentCore

Data & AI Architecture
Enterprise Data Platform architecture and ecosystem design.
Integration of Data and AI solutions with enterprise systems.
Architecture governance, standards, and best practices.

AI/ML & MLOps
Model lifecycle management and deployment strategies.
Model hosting and serving architectures.
Experimentation tracking and orchestration frameworks.
MLOps platforms and pipelines.
Hands-on experience with Databricks and/or SageMaker.

Security & Governance
Authentication and authorization frameworks.
Secure architecture principles.
Compliance, monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies.
Enterprise governance and risk management considerations.

Cloud-Native Engineering
Docker and Kubernetes.
Serverless architecture patterns.
Event-driven architecture design.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
DevSecOps practices.

Leadership
Architectural governance and decision-making.
Stakeholder management.
Constructive challenge and strategic influence.
Team mentoring and technical leadership.

Why Join Highspring?

Join a team of experienced consultants delivering large-scale transformation initiatives.
Influence the future of enterprise Data and AI platforms.
Work with leading cloud, analytics, and AI technologies.
Collaborate with highly skilled architecture, engineering, and business teams.
Access continuous learning, certification, and professional development opportunities.
Contribute to impactful projects that drive measurable business outcomes.

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À propos de Highspring

Highspring est une firme de consultation et de services professionnels de nouvelle génération. Nous offrons à nos clients partout en Amérique du Nord des solutions modernes, agiles et innovantes. Nous collaborons avec certaines des organisations les plus avant-gardistes afin de les accompagner dans leur transformation numérique, leurs initiatives de données et leurs projets d'innovation. Chez Highspring, nous misons sur le leadership technique, l'excellence professionnelle et la création d'un impact concret pour nos clients.

L'opportunité

Highspring est à la recherche d'un(e) Architecte IA et Données expérimenté(e) pour contribuer à l'évolution d'importantes plateformes de données et d'intelligence artificielle au sein d'un environnement d'entreprise de grande envergure.
Cette personne jouera un rôle clé dans la définition de stratégies d'architecture, la conception de plateformes modernes et l'adoption de capacités avancées en IA, données et infonuagique.

Ce que vous ferez

Définir et faire évoluer les stratégies, feuilles de route, normes et patrons d'architecture Data & IA à l'échelle de l'entreprise.
Concevoir des architectures infonuagiques de données et d'intelligence artificielle sécurisées, robustes, évolutives et résilientes.
Produire des architectures de référence et des stratégies d'implantation conformes aux exigences de sécurité et de gouvernance.
Concevoir des architectures IA/ML couvrant l'expérimentation, l'entraînement, le déploiement, l'hébergement