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Accelerate your success at Colliers. Why Colliers? As one of Canadas leading commercial real estate services firms, we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people, clients, and communities. A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact, advance your career, and collaborate with toptier talent. Dont just take our word for it weve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists, including 2024s Best Workplaces in Canada, Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams, and Best Workplaces for Inclusion, among others. Onsite Role Toronto, Ontario About the role We are hiring a visionary yet handson leader to drive our critical transformation from Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a defining moment in our digital evolution. You will architect the foundation that enables our Digital Transformation and AI Adoption, moving us from legacy patterns to a cloudnative, automated, and secure future. As the Senior Director of Cloud Architecture, you will unify our global cloud strategy and establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to instill governance, financial discipline, and engineering rigor. You must be comfortable operating at all altitudes equally adept at articulating value to the CSuite as you are drawing detailed architecture diagrams, reviewing Terraform configurations, and leading whiteaty sessions engineers. Lead the enterprise migration from Azure to GCP, defining the target landing zone architecture, resource hierarchy (Organization/Folders/Projects), network topology (Shared VPCs, Interconnects, Cloud VPN), and identity federation strategy (Azure AD Workforce Identity Federation). Develop a migration factory approach to prioritize and move workloads, balancing lift and shift speed with modernize value (e.g., leveraging GKE Autopilot, Cloud Run, and serverless patterns). Create and own the multiyear Cloud Strategy roadmap, ensuring every architectural decision enables business agility, cost efficiency, and security outcomes. Establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) as a hub for enablement rather than a bottleneck, providing standards, reusable modules, and coaching to teams. Build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with golden paths (IaC templates, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, observability) and policyascode guardrails to accelerate delivery. Lead FinOps discipline: Define tagging/labeling standards, implement showback/chargeback models, automated cost policies, and manage the Comairted Use Discount (CUD) strategy with forecasting. Partner with Finance on budgets and variance analysis. Architect highperformance infrastructure required for AI Adoption, including scalable patterns for GKE, GPU/TPU resource management and quotas, and highthroughput networking for data payloads. Partner with Data & AI leadership to productionize Vertex AI, establishing modelSeguance (lineage, drift detection, audit) and MLOps pipelines. Accelerate modern app delivery using serverless (Cloud Run), eventdriven patterns (Pub/Sub, Eventarc), and managed data services. Regular review of Terraform modules, GitHub Actions/Cloud Deploy configurations, and Kubernetes manifests. Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) and service evaluations to validate new GCP services prior to enterprise rollout; publish decision records. Define Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) standards (SLOs, error budgets, incident management, runbooks) and Disaster Recovery (DR) patterns. Manage relationships with Google Cloud, GSIs/MSPs, and professional services partners; set standards for partner delivery quality. Mentor Principal Architects and Lead Engineers, raising the technical bar and fostering a learning culture. What you bring 15+ years of technology experience, with at least 7+ years in a senior architecture role leading complex cloud initiatives. Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. Proven success leading a largescale migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ideally from a legacy or alternative cloud environment (Azure/AWS). Experience establishing or leading a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and implementing FinOps operating models. Prior ownership of CUD/SUD negotiations and multimilliondollar cloud budgets is highly preferred. Sufficient knowledge of Azure architecture (networking, identity, security controls) to effectively plan and derisk the migration strategy. Deep handson proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Cloud Build/Cloud Deploy), and container orchestration (Kubernetes). Experience architecting infrastructure that supports dataintensive and computeintensive AI workloads (Vertex AI/MLOps). Ability to simplify complex technical tradeoffs into clear business outcomes for executive stakeholders. Pursuant to the laws regarding job postings where the position is located in, Colliers is disclosing the following information: Area/Location Specific: Hybrid Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC Approximate Salary Range for Role: $163,500 to $185,000 CAD. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including jobrelated skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization. Colliers does not use AIenabled tools to sort or decline applications. All decisions are made by our talent acquisition team. Apply now Ready to make an impact and take the next step in your career journey? Join us by applying directly through LinkedIn or visit www.collierscanada.com/care counted. Direct applicants only please, no agencies. What we offer Innovative projects: Work on cuttingedge initiatives that shape our communities, drive our growth, and make a tangible impact. rules Career growth: Advance your career and achieve your goals with industryleading training and development programs. Competitive benefits & compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and flexible benefits package along with competitive compensation that rewards your contributions and supports your wellbeing. Collaborative culture: Join our team where innovation thrives, collaboration is key, and our people are empowered to be their authentic selves and do their best work. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Our robust North American Diversity & Inclusion Program features eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where you can connect, learn, and contribute to a diverse and supportive community. Learn more: https://www.collierscanada.com/en-ca/careers/diversity-and-inclusion Global network: Join a global team of 24,000 professionals across 70 countries, where dividir you''''ll expand your network and learn from experts in a dynamic international community. Accelerate your career and enhance your expertise as you connect and collaborate with top talent around the world. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a fulltime basis. The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas. Colliers is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. Colliers encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate applicants disabilityrelated needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you require a disabilityrelated accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team by email at [email protected]. #J-18808-Ljbffr