Portfolio Architect
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About the Role
Cenovus Energy is seeking a Platform/Portfolio Architect to accelerate AI enablement through hands-on exploration and prototyping. The role blends architectural leadership with technical acumen, requiring experience in AI/ML platforms, cloud-native architecture, and developer tooling.
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Responsibilities
- Architect and prototype AI solutions and patterns for cloud and EUC
- Design efficient, cost optimized AI architectures
- Incorporate secure by design principles from inception
- Experiment with and evaluate emerging AI platform capabilities
- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to shape portfolio architecture
- Co create lightweight architecture principles and patterns with engineering teams
- Develop outcome driven roadmaps and capability maps
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, pair programming, and architecture workshops
Requirements
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Minimum 12 years' experience progressing from hands on engineering to architecture or platform leadership
- Hands on AI/ML platform experience: RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, embeddings/vector search, MLOps workflows
- Deep expertise in cloud native architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Understanding of AI agent architecture
- Experience with developer tooling ecosystem: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability
- Experience reading and writing code in Python, TypeScript, or similar
- Effective communicator who can translate complex concepts
Full Job Posting
About this opportunity
- We are seeking a Platform/Portfolio Architect who thrives at the intersection of experimentation and strategy.
- You’ll be accelerating our AI enablement through hands on exploration to validate architectural patterns, prove feasibility, and guide implementation teams.
- This role blends architectural leadership with technical acumen.
What you’ll do
- Architect and prototype AI solutions and patterns for the cloud and EUC to demonstrate capability, validate costs, and establish patterns for enterprise adoption.
- Design efficient, cost optimized AI architectures that balance performance with sustainability.
- Incorporate secure by design principles from inception.
- Experiment with and evaluate emerging AI platform capabilities and cloud native technologies.
- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to shape portfolio architecture.
- Co create lightweight architecture principles and patterns with engineering teams.
- Develop outcome driven roadmaps and capability maps using data and metrics.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, pair programming sessions, and architecture workshops.
Who you are
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum 12 years' experience, progressing from hands on engineering to architecture or platform leadership.
- Hands on AI/ML platform experience: RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, embeddings/vector search, MLOps workflows.
- Deep expertise in cloud native architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Understanding of AI agent architecture.
- Experience with developer tooling ecosystem: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability tools.
- Experience reading and writing code in Python, TypeScript, or similar.
- Effective communicator who can translate complex concepts.
- Curious, hands on, and pragmatic with experience in prototyping.
Total rewards
- Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
- Health & dental benefits
- Substantial mental health coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Employee family assistance
- Virtual healthcare coverage
Who we are
- Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary.
- We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region.
- Our operations include oil sands projects, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects, and downstream operations.
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