Cloud Solutions Architect, Appnovation
Digital consultancy
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Digital consultancy
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance clients businesses by innovating everything digital.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for people who can bring a strong, consulting and solution-focused mindset and contribute to architectural decisions, best practices and get things done
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field; 8+ years in engineering, with 3+ years in architecture
- Senior cloud architecture experience on AWS; certification (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional) preferred
- Experience designing high-scale, low-latency, multi-region distributed systems
- Caching strategies, data federation, and performance/load testing
- Security architecture, including role- and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Strong grasp of networking, IAM, cost optimization, and observability tooling
- Ability to work within an established enterprise engineering lifecycle and hit the ground running
- Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills
- You think about how to scale, automate and operate, not just how to build a solution to an immediate problem
- You understand lean thinking
- You set high standards for code quality, performance/scalability and security and seek continuous improvement
- You have solid analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- You have a customer-first mindset and a devotion to customer service
- You engage and build positive internal and external client relationships, while managing multiple initiatives, often with competing priorities
- You have strong self-initiative, passion, interpersonal, oral and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work, influence and make an impact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of the organization
- You are responsive and thrive in a fast-paced, diverse, high-performance environment with rapidly changing business needs
- You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
- You have prior experience in consulting
- Prior experience and connections in the Life Sciences industry is preferred
What the job involves
- As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will join a highly motivated and experienced team and think through scaling our platform from a small pilot to enterprise scale
- You will architect for tens of thousands of users on AWS, design the caching, multi-region and federation strategies that keep the platform fast and resilient across geographies, and ensure the architecture meets the security and access-control needs of sensitive content
- Architect the platform for enterprise scale (tens of thousands of users) on AWS
- Evaluate scalability of the Postgres/Supabase backend; design caching tiers, multi-region, and global federation as needed
- Own the load-testing strategy and responsiveness targets across geographies
- Ensure the architecture meets security and access-control needs for sensitive content
- Produce architecture diagrams, decision records, and technical standards
- Guide and mentor engineers on cloud best practices and patterns
- Define non-functional requirements (availability, resilience, cost, observability)
- Partner with security and compliance to meet enterprise controls
- Support build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Launched in 2007, Appnovation is a global digital consultancy with offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The company helps enterprises and governments meet their digital transformation goals, working across sectors ranging from media and entertainment to finance, government, and life sciences. Its client roster includes major brands such as AmEx, Air Canada, and Disney too.
Thanks to the growing versatility of digital consulting - and the many forms it now takes - firms like Appnovation are drawing renewed interest from investors. With global spending possibly reaching $2.59T by 2035, the sector is entering a period of serious growth, and Appnovation's momentum suggests it's well-positioned to capture a share of that growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2021
$18.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $18.9m
Company HQ
Gastown, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Arnold Leung
(Founder & CEO)Member at YPO / WPO Canada. Previously Board Member at Vancouver Enterprise Forum, Founder at Intercarbon Networks, and Marketing Representative at BMO Nesbitt Burns.
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