Principal SaaS Platform Architect (Application)
Location: Toronto/Vancouver/Calgary office, ON, Hybrid (2–3 days on-site per week)
Language: Strong written and spoken English required
Duration: Permanent
Background Check Requirement: Full professional references and verification may be required
About the Opportunity
Join a global technology organization where you will help shape the future of a suite of cloud-hosted, next-generation SaaS products. This senior role sits at the heart of the enterprise’s strategic architecture practice, guiding how modern cloud technologies come together to support high-growth, high-scale solutions.
This is a Principal SaaS Product Architect role, responsible for multi-tenant product architecture, APIs, SLOs, and PoCs in the cloud, partnering with global product and engineering teams, not an infrastructure position. The ideal candidate has owned an externally facing SaaS, made architectural trade-offs, and shipped PoCs/demos.
You will work closely with architects across regions and collaborate directly with product and engineering teams, influencing decisions that impact customers worldwide. If you enjoy setting long-term technical direction, championing cloud-first approaches, and bringing clarity to complex systems, this opportunity offers meaningful, far-reaching impact.
What’s in it for You
Join a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. You will be surrounded by technical leaders who embrace new approaches and encourage knowledge sharing.
You will gain exposure to a global architecture community, cutting-edge cloud technologies, and end-to-end product design, all within a workplace that supports balance and continuous learning.
Your Responsibilities
You will evaluate emerging cloud architecture ideas, patterns, and technologies to determine their applicability across the product ecosystem.
You will propose architecture patterns and technical approaches aligned with the organization’s long-term SaaS strategy.
You will review team-level architectures and APIs, providing recommendations to strengthen alignment and quality.
You will investigate and assess technology options that improve scalability and performance across multiple products.
You will collaborate with global architects to shape a unified vision and promote technical convergence.
You will clearly communicate architectural strategy and rationale to both technical and business audiences.
You will guide product teams in adopting cloud-first design principles and best practices.
You will contribute to documentation that supports key architectural decisions and ongoing knowledge sharing.
You will provide proofs of concept or demos to validate approaches when needed.
Skills and Qualifications
- 15 plus years of progressive engineering or software development experience with a strong programming foundation.
- 5 plus years of cloud and SaaS architecture experience at scale, ideally at the Principal or Senior Architect level.
- Experience architecting and building externally facing, multi-tenant SaaS products
- Proofs of concept and demos, not day-to-day coding
- Cloud experience welcome across GCP/AWS/Azure (GCP preferred)
- Demonstrated experience defining and communicating architectural strategy for global SaaS platforms.
- Hands-on experience with hyperscale cloud providers, ideally Google Cloud Platform, with exposure to AWS and Azure.
- Proven ability to balance high-level strategy with hands-on technical credibility, including developing proofs of concept.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills across development, product, and executive teams.
- Track record of improving scalability, performance, and availability within complex SaaS environments.
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We appreciate the time and effort all applicants invest in their submissions. Please note that only candidates shortlisted for this role will be contacted directly. However, your profile will remain under consideration for future opportunities that align with your experience and career goals. All qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities including those who identify as women, members of racialized groups, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. If you require an accommodation, please review our accessibility policy and reach out to our accessibility officer with any questions. Our human recruiters review all applications and always make the final hiring decision. On occasion, we also use AI-assisted tools to help review applications.
