At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · Canada
About the role
- Valtech is seeking a visionary and operational Technical Director to join their Cloud & DevOps practice in Canada.
- This senior leadership role focuses on cloud-native modernization, AI-driven solutions, and software delivery excellence for enterprise clients.
- The position involves strategic architecture, team leadership, and stakeholder management to drive digital transformation.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical vision, architecture strategies, and best practices for Cloud and DevOps projects.
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Establish engineering standards, governance frameworks, security controls, and operational excellence practices.
- Act as a trusted advisor to client executives, technology leads, and product teams.
- Direct the design and implementation of agentic AI solutions using LLMs, copilots, and autonomous workflows.
- Guide clients in identifying opportunities for complex business process automation via AI systems.
- Drive cloud adoption, modernization, migration, and platform engineering initiatives.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, and reliability engineering.
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and participate in pre-sales and solution design activities.
- Mentor and coach architects, engineers, and technical leads to foster a culture of innovation.
Requirements
- Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, platform engineering, or DevOps.
- Over 5 years of experience in technical leadership, architecture, or consulting roles.
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure services, architecture patterns, governance, security, and operations.
- Solid experience in designing and delivering enterprise applications using Next.js, React, and modern web architectures.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing or architecting agentic AI solutions, AI-based automation, or autonomous workflows.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, containers, and distributed systems.
- Strong experience in client consulting and executive-level stakeholder management.
- Proficiency in DevOps platforms and practices including GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, and IaC.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Fluency in English is required for regular communication with clients and colleagues outside of Quebec.
Preferred qualifications
- Certification Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or other relevant Microsoft certifications.
- Experience with Azure OpenAI Service and implementing AI platforms in enterprise environments.
- Experience in platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).
- Experience in consulting, digital transformation, or systems integration environments.
- Experience leading distributed and international delivery teams.
Benefits
- Hourly rate of CAD $90-98 depending on experience and location.
Workplace
- Remote position based in Canada.
Skills
- Microsoft Azure
- Next.js
- React
- Agentic AI
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure As Code
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub
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- Microservices
- API
