Cloud architect

?? Are you a cloud architect who can design a platform from a blank page and stay hands-on to build it? We're hiring a Cloud Solutions Architect to join an established Canadian software company whose production-monitoring and reporting software is used by packaged goods manufacturers. Its products currently run on customer servers; this role designs and builds the company's first cloud-hosted offering from the ground up, from collecting manufacturing data at customer sites to the reporting customers use. The role offers a greenfield product to own end-to-end, with the autonomy to make the architectural calls that shape it. ? Who You Are • An architect who understands the full pipeline, from data collection at the source to customer-facing reporting, and how each part affects the others • Someone who stays hands-on, building and deploying what they design rather than handing it off • A self-starter who takes ownership in a small division where one person carries broad responsibility • Comfortable making sound decisions before every requirement is fully defined • A clear technical communicator who turns requirements into designs an engineering team can build ? Work Type • Location: Oakville, ON (Hybrid, 2 days per week) • Vacancy Type: This role is a newly created position Requirements ? What You'll Do • Design the architecture for a new multi-tenant SaaS product, from data ingestion at customer sites through cloud-hosted services to customer-facing reporting • Build, deploy, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and backend components hands-on while the engineering team is hired • Design data pipelines that move operational data from on-premises manufacturing environments into the cloud reliably and securely • Define patterns for multi-tenancy, customer data isolation, scalability, and security • Evaluate cloud platforms and technology options, recommending where to start small and how to scale based on cost and long-term maintainability • Learn how the company's existing on-premises product works and carry that knowledge into a lighter cloud offering • Deliver a starting proposal for the platform and the roles needed to build it within the first three months • Stand up CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and monitoring for the new platform • Work with a small group of early customers to identify what the product needs first ? What We're Looking For • 5+ years of experience as a cloud or solutions architect, designing systems and making the platform and technology calls behind them • Experience designing and building cloud systems end to end, not just contributing to a single layer • Experience with more than one major cloud platform, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud • Experience building systems that ingest and process high volumes of operational data • Significant experience designing and deploying databases at scale, including schema design, query performance, and storage trade-offs • Strong grasp of distributed systems: data flow, service boundaries, failure modes, and resilience patterns • Experience integrating cloud platforms with on-premises or operationally constrained environments • Familiarity with SaaS patterns such as multi-tenancy, customer data isolation, and subscription-based delivery • Experience producing cost analyses and platform recommendations that balance a small start against future growth Nice to have: • Experience in industrial, IoT or manufacturing environments • Experience with .NET and SQL Server • Experien