Software Architect

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 to design, evolve, and modernize our organization's application solutions. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will help define high-performing, secure, and scalable architectures while influencing the technology directions that support CGI’s growth, innovation, and digital transformation, as well as that of its clients.

In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, security, maintainability, integration, availability, and operability. You will have the opportunity to propose solutions for complex environments, including modern Web applications, API and microservices architectures, .NET systems, SQL databases, and legacy components. If you enjoy helping shape architecture principles, development standards, technology choices, and best practices, CGI offers an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on our clients’ success.

Work model: Hybrid, 2 days/ week onsite Location: Montréal

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Understand the organization’s strategic direction, business needs, operational constraints, technology challenges, and current systems landscape to propose robust, scalable architectures aligned with transformation objectives

• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, including product teams, development teams, architecture and security teams, infrastructure teams, and data teams

• Evolve the target architecture of application solutions, ensuring consistency between functional requirements, non-functional requirements, technology standards, and enterprise directions

• Design efficient and high-performing software architectures for modern Web applications and API-based architectures

• Develop modernization, migration, integration, and system evolution strategies, including Microsoft .NET environments, ASP.NET applications, Windows services, and related hosting platforms

• Build technical solution prototypes and validate technical feasibility

• Evaluate technology options, recommend architectural decisions, and document key design choices, including trade-offs among cost, timelines, quality, security, performance, maintainability, interoperability, and scalability

• Provide technical leadership to development teams by promoting software design best practices, code quality, continuous integration, automation, and observability

• Promote architecture standards, principles, patterns, frameworks, and development practices across all solutions, particularly for APIs, microservices, data access, and integration

• Participate in architecture reviews and code reviews

• Identify major technical risks, propose mitigation measures, and support their implementation

• Anticipate market technology trends and identify innovation opportunities to improve solution performance, efficiency, scalability, and user experience

• Contribute to project planning, including effort estimation, dependency identification, technical prioritization, and the definition of evolution roadmaps

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 10–15 years of experience in Information Technology, including several years in software architecture, solution architecture, or a similar role

• Significant experience developing complex, mission-critical, or large-scale systems

• Excellent understanding of the full application lifecycle

• Deep knowledge of modern Web application architecture, including performance, security, maintainability, and integration considerations

• Strong expertise in API-based architectures, microservices, application services, and distributed systems

• Expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem, including C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Services, and Windows Server environments

• Good understanding of ASP.NET environments, including WebForms, and the challenges involved in modernizing to newer architectures

• Solid knowledge of front-end and Web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, JSON, and integration principles for modern Web interfaces

• Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational database design and integration principles

• Good knowledge of Linux and containerized application environments

• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD environments

• Good knowledge of application security principles, data protection, identity and access management, and applicable compliance requirements

• Ability to produce architecture documents, diagrams, roadmaps, technology assessments, impact analyses, proof-of-concept deliverables, and executive recommendations.

• Experience working in Agile environments

• Knowledge of hybrid mobile application architectures combining Web technologies and native mobile components is considered an asset

• Knowledge of Swift and Java in the context of mobile application design or integration is considered an asset

• Experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, etc.) is considered an asset

• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes is considered an asset

• Excellent communication skills in French (spoken and written) and functional English

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 80 000$ et 120 000$. 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:

• French

• Analytical Thinking

• Canadian Payr.Legisl. (Quebec)

• Communication

• Customer Service & Support

• Problem Solving

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

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