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CIMA+

Engineering consulting for infrastructure and sustainability

Data Solutions Architecture Advisor

Data Management +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeQuébec City, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • At least 10 years of relevant experience, including significant experience in solution or data architecture.
  • Experience designing or modernizing enterprise data platforms.
  • Mastery of data architectures, data modeling, integration patterns, and batch or streaming processing.
  • Experience with IoT, SCADA, or time-series data environments.
  • Mastery of at least one cloud data ecosystem, ideally Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
  • Knowledge of complementary tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Kafka, Terraform, Git, or CI/CD pipelines.
  • A good understanding of data governance, security, and quality.
  • Bilingual French and English, spoken and written; excellent oral and written communication in both languages, with English required for regular interaction with CIMA+ stakeholders across Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients, contribute to mandate scoping, facilitate workshops, and formulate recommendations suited to their priorities, constraints, and organizational capacities.
  • Define and evolve the overall architecture of data solutions and platforms, including data ingestion, integration, storage, transformation, governance, serving, and consumption.
  • Develop target, transition, and reference architectures and modernization roadmaps, accounting for operational, technological, financial, and organizational constraints.
  • Translate business needs and desired capabilities into architecture principles, non-functional requirements, technology choices, and solution patterns.
  • Design modern architectures for Lakehouse platforms, data warehouses, IoT systems, and real-time processing solutions, using batch, event-driven, or streaming integration models suited to business intelligence, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence.
  • Guide data modeling and historization, including conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional, and semantic models, time-series data, and master and reference data management.
  • Define standards and mechanisms for data quality, traceability, cataloging, metadata, security, privacy, retention, and access management.
  • Guide the design of batch ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming data flows, interfaces, APIs, and data-exchange mechanisms among data platforms, IoT systems, SCADA environments, and other operational systems.
  • Evaluate technology options, document trade-offs, and make pragmatic recommendations on cost, performance, resilience, maintainability, and scalability.
  • Produce and maintain architecture deliverables, including principles, diagrams, architecture decisions, standards, patterns, roadmaps, and solution documentation.
  • Collaborate with business, IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, governance, analytics, and development teams to ensure architecture alignment and implementation.
  • Support delivery teams, conduct architecture reviews, and help resolve complex issues throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Serve as a subject-matter reference and contribute to architecture governance, technology monitoring, and continuous improvement of practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in public transportation, infrastructure, utilities, energy, or critical operational environments.
  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, solution architecture practices, and architecture decision-governance methods.
  • Experience with hybrid environments combining on-premises systems and cloud services, and with large-scale migration or modernization programs.

About the Company

CIMA+

Engineering consulting for infrastructure and sustainability

1) What the company does: CIMA+ provides engineering consulting for infrastructure development and environmental sustainability, serving government agencies, private firms, and non-profit organizations in Canada, through project-based contracts and long-term partnerships. 2) How its products work: It delivers tailored consulting services by combining technical engineering expertise with strategic planning to analyze, design, and guide sustainable infrastructure projects from conception through implementation. 3) How it differs from competitors: It leverages deep local Canadian knowledge and an integrated approach that blends engineering with strategic planning and sustainability, focusing on value-driven outcomes and long-term collaborations across diverse client types. 4) The company’s goal: To help clients achieve sustainable, value-driven infrastructure and environmental goals through practical, tailored consulting and ongoing partnerships.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Laval, Canada
Founded
1990

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