Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.As Air Canada expands its global leadership, we remain committed to delivering exceptional digital experiences that support millions of travellers. Digital innovation plays a vital role throughout the customer journey and is equally essential in empowering our frontline employees who deliver the Air Canada experience every day. Our continued investment in technology, engineering practices, and culture ensures we build solutions that are reliable, scalable, and impactful.
We are seeking a Manager, Solution Architecture to lead the design and evolution of enterprise-grade, cloud native solutions across our digital ecosystem. This role will translate business strategies into actionable technical architectures, guiding the hands on development of applications on AWS and Azure using microservices, containers, serverless technologies, modern API patterns, and Infrastructure as Code.A key focus of this role is ensuring that the digital solutions we build enhance both customer and employee experiences. This includes creating systems that simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, improve real time access to information, and empower frontline teams to deliver safe, efficient, and seamless operations.
Responsibilities:Lead solution architecture for Air Canada’s digital platforms, ensuring consistent, scalable, secure, and reusable designs across all customer-facing ecosystems.Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of solution and technical architects.Align solution designs and roadmaps with enterprise architecture standards and technology strategies.Translate business needs into clear, actionable solution architectures and technical blueprints.Provide hands-on leadership in designing cloud-native solutions using AWS/Azure, microservices, containers, serverless, and event-driven patterns.Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, API-first design, observability, and security-by-design.Facilitate architectural reviews, decision-making sessions, and design workshops with cross functional teams.Evaluate technologies, tools, and platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and future-state architecture.Communicate architectural decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences and present solutions to governance boards.Oversee implementation to ensure adherence to architectural standards, security requirements, and performance targets.Identify architectural risks, define mitigation strategies, and ensure delivered solutions meet quality expectations.Maintain architecture documentation and continuously improve architecture processes, standards, and methodologies.Provide technical leadership across teams, supporting integration strategies and resolving complex design challenges.
QualificationsBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; TOGAF, AWS, or Azure certifications are assets.5+ years of IT experience, including 3+ years in solution architecture within complex enterprise environments.Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure), microservices, containers, serverless, and modern integration patterns.Solid understanding of SOA, API-first design, web/mobile architectures, and enterprise integration frameworks.Proficient with REST APIs, JSON, XML, schemas, and web service standards.Experience designing secure, scalable, and high performance solutions across digital and backend platforms.Knowledge of relational databases (DB2, MySQL, SQL Server) and enterprise data integration principles.Experience architecting solutions across legacy, mainframe, client server, and cloud ecosystems.Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, identity management, SSO, and modern engineering practices.Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts.Strong leadership, collaboration, and problem solving skills; able to thrive in fast paced, cross functional environments.Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.
Conditions of Employment:Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.
Linguistic RequirementsBased on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and InclusionAir Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
