Posted 23 days ago
Portfolio Architect
@ Hays
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Hays is hiring a contract Portfolio Architect for Technology Resilience at a large client with a complex, business-critical technology environment. The role defines resilience architecture, standards and roadmaps across Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience and reliability engineering. The posting requires 10+ years of progressive technology experience and a university degree; the AI screening notice applies.
Pay:
$90–$100 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Définir l'architecture, les normes et la feuille de route de résilience
- Concevoir les architectures cibles de reprise et de haute disponibilité
- Établir des modèles pour l'automatisation de la reprise et la validation
- Cartographier les dépendances entre services, applications et infrastructures
Requirements summary:
- Diplôme universitaire en informatique, génie ou systèmes d'information
- 10 ans et plus d'expérience technologique progressive
- Expérience en architecture d'entreprise ou de plateforme
- Expérience en reprise après sinistre, résilience ou fiabilité
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · careerpage
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-14
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-16
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Hays
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 247 |
Your New Company
Our client is a large organization with a complex, business-critical technology environment. They are advancing their technology resilience capabilities and seeking a senior architect to shape how critical platforms and services withstand and recover from disruption.Your New Role
As Portfolio Architect – Technology Resilience, you will define the architecture, standards, patterns, and roadmap for enterprise resilience. You will lead architecture across Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, recovery automation, reliability engineering, and dependency management while embedding resilience-by-design principles across technology platforms and strategic investments.Key Responsibilities
- Define resilience architecture, standards, roadmaps, and reference patterns.
- Design target-state architectures for Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, High Availability, and Operational Resilience.
- Establish patterns for Infrastructure as Code, automated failover, orchestration, and recovery validation.
- Embed SRE, observability, telemetry, SLOs, and continuous resilience testing into architecture standards.
- Develop dependency models connecting business services, applications, infrastructure, data, integrations, and third parties.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Cloud, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, and Operations teams.
What You'll Need to Succeed
Must-Have Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of progressive technology experience spanning architecture, engineering, infrastructure, cloud, or reliability.
- Experience in Enterprise, Portfolio, Solution, or Platform Architecture, or Technology Strategy.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, High Availability, or Reliability Engineering.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, recovery automation, dependency mapping, and observability.
- Proven ability to provide architectural leadership across complex enterprise environments.
Nice-to-Have Requirements
- ServiceNow CMDB and Service Mapping experience.
- SRE, DevSecOps, or Platform Engineering experience.
- Knowledge of cloud operating models, SLOs, resilience telemetry, and automated testing.
What Success Looks Like
- Greater adoption of resilience-by-design standards and automated recovery.
- Improved service dependency visibility, recovery sequencing, and recoverability.
- Reduced resilience risk and technical debt with stronger audit readiness.
What You'll Get in Return
This is an opportunity to shape a strategic technology resilience capability and influence cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, platform engineering, and enterprise architecture. You will help modernize recovery through automation, observability, dependency intelligence, and reliability engineering practices.What You Need to Do Now
If you're interested in this role, click "Apply Now" to submit your application or contact Hays to discuss the opportunity.This posting is for an existing vacancy with the organization.
AI may be used to screen, assess or select applicants for the position.
This posting is not for an existing vacancy with the organization.
AI may be used to screen, assess or select applicants for the position.
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