Cloud Architect (GCP)

Requisition ID: 277691

At Tangerine, we’re redefining banking. As Canada’s leading digital bank, we thrive on innovation, agility, and bold thinking, tackling every challenge head-on with leading technology and the unstoppable power of collaboration.

Our client-obsessed teams deliver flexible, accessible banking solutions, breakthrough products, and award-winning service. Beyond banking, we’re committed to making an impact in the communities we serve and across our organization. We foster a culture built on integrity, inclusion, and fearless ambition - where diverse perspectives are valued, and people are empowered to do their best work.

Are you ready to disrupt the status quo? Do you crave challenges that push boundaries? If you’re a high performer looking to accelerate your career and reimagine the banking landscape, this is your moment.

Let’s shape the future of banking together!

Tangerine has embarked on the journey to modernize development practices, tools, and runtime environments. One of the main areas of transformation is the adoption of public Cloud and the various platform technologies that support both development and operations on the cloud.

The Cloud Architect will be part of the Cloud Platform/Enterprise Architecture team, responsible for the Cloud adoption strategy and for creating platform components and services for the broad enterprise use (infrastructure and application teams).

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Establish mid and long-term vision, strategy, and roadmaps for the Cloud platform capabilities required by Tangerine.
• Define Cloud Reference Architecture
• Clearly communicate the vision and technology roadmap to various team and stakeholders.
• Develop, document, and maintain cloud platforms, services and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of cloud common functionality.
• Work with Cloud providers to identify new technologies, and to support the evolution and availability of the services enabled in the platform.
• Develop software/pipelines for enabling and automating provisioning and maintenance of cloud platform and related components.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code.
• Work with other engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• Participate in planning, retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Design and build highly available and scalable infrastructure, as example, Kubernetes.

• Support application and infrastructure teams on the use of cloud platform including providing guidance on available options, design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
• Enable controls and practices to enforce that applications will meet non-functional requirements, high availability, integrity, reliability, security posture, disaster recovery and optimal cost.
• Expertise with cloud networking and hybrid cloud architecture (on-prem and GCP) is required.
• Expertise in cloud security is required: IAM, Org Policies, VPCSC, encryption, secrets management, workload identity, security logging/monitoring (SCC, Cloud Audit Logs), zero-trust principles.
• Define and facilitate architectural and other governance process activities in line with Application Development Lifecycle and Quality Assurance steps.
• Mentor and coach others within assigned area.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.
• Enthusiasm for cloud transformation and cloud platform/components/services development.
• Strong development experience and breadth of language and framework experience.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle as well as related technologies.
• Understanding of software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD) is required.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and networking is required.
• Understanding of software release processes (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD) is required.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud infrastructure is required.
• In-depth knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and security considerations.
• Expertise in cloud platform features and capabilities is required.
• Proven experience in Google GCP is strong benefit.
• Writing and maintaining related documentation
• Competent in:
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) core services and landing zone design
  • Cloud Security technologies and concepts
  • Hybrid cloud connectivity (Cloud Interconnect, Partner Interconnect, Cloud VPN)
  • Cloud networking: NCC, VPC, Shared VPC, routing, firewalls, load balancing, DNS
  • Kubernetes / GKE
  • Java / Spring Framework
  • Security technologies and concepts
  • High availability systems design
  • Performance Tuning
  • Web APIs
  • Microservices architecture
  • DevOps concepts
  • Terraform or similar IaC technologies
  • Open-source technologies
  • Linux

What's in it for you?

• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of Client-focused go-getters looking to learn from each other in an environment that celebrates and recognizes success!
• You will have access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can shape your career growth with the support from diverse industry leaders.
• You will get our help to save for your future and to invest in your total wellbeing through our Tangerine benefits*.
• You belong here, we are equal and un-complicated. Bring your true self to work, dress codes don’t apply here.
• You will enjoy workspace flexibility and all the excitement that comes from working at the official Bank of the Toronto Raptors.

*Tangerine employees participate in Scotiabank’s pension & benefits programs (available to permanent employees)

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

At Tangerine we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the team, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.