Cloud Solutions Architect, Principal

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Cloud Solutions Architect, Principal

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Interac Corp.

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that empower our clients to achieve more. Whether we’re leading real‑time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we play a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy.

Want to make a lasting impact among a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus, and high‑performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

About the role As a Cloud Solutions Architect, Principal you will be part of the DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering group. Working closely with the other members of the leadership triad—Product Manager and Tech Lead—you will share accountability for leading a team of platform engineers building the next generation of platforms at Interac. Our vision for our platforms is to provide “zero touch”, at‑will deployment for our software development community. We are assembling the platform from cloud‑native infrastructure, networking, and services, as well as cloud‑based IaC and DevSecOps tooling, treating the software developers in our product lines as the primary user we aim to make happy.

Responsibilities

Lead a team in a shared responsibility model with the Product Manager and Tech Lead, together accountable for the value and usability of what the team delivers

Understand developer pain points and address them effectively

Establish and maintain ongoing relationships with the development community

Create and manage a constant feedback loop with software developers to understand the usability, viability, and value of what is being built for them by the platform team

Design reusable components for platforms using DevSecOps and cloud components

Contribute hands‑on automation of the platform (~20% of your time coding)

Keep tooling and processes up to date with evolving needs, improving them with deep telemetry instrumentation, dashboards, and deployment automation

Implement and maintain system configurations and baselines to support secure application development and software control best practices and standards

Contribute to a cross‑functional support structure with Platform and App Ops teams

Qualifications

Eligibility to work for Interac in Canada in a full‑time capacity

Software delivery experience, especially on backend API development (2+ years as a software developer or in a similar capacity)

Experience implementing platform automation for software development with tooling native to cloud platforms (3+ years in a DevSecOps, SRE, or similar role)

Experience in application or platform architecture or design, where a team of technical people looked to you for leadership and guidance on solutioning and decision‑making

No fear to engage software development teams, treat them as clients, and integrate into them to discover the problems they have at the platform level

Enthusiasm for solving problems with other technical people, working together to identify problems, hypothesize possible solutions, test them, and judge results using data

Analytical and creative flair, enabling you to turn what you discover from engaging software developers into designs that platform engineers can implement quickly and easily

Technical Skills

Understanding of software development and design patterns

Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS

Experience in pipeline development

Knowledge of scripting with Bash, Python, and APIs

Experience with IaC tools such as Ansible and Terraform playbooks

Experience with container technologies such as Docker

Knowledge of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Background Checks Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers.

Canadian criminal record check

Public safety verification

Canadian ID cross‑check

5‑year employment verification

Education verification

If applicable, credit inquiry and social media check

How We Work Connection:

You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by a passion for a common goal.

Core Values:

They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education:

To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you.

Additional Information Seniority Level: Director

Employment Type: Full‑time

Job Function: Engineering and Information Technology

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