Lead Solutions Architect

About Thornpoint Threat Labs:

Incident response is a big part of the work: ransomware recovery, business email compromise and forensic investigations. Identity and access management projects, mostly Okta and Entra ID rollouts, have been part of the business since 2004. Training budget covers one SANS course or equivalent per year.

Thornpoint Threat Labs needs another Lead Solutions Architect to lead technical design for client projects on AWS and Azure. This position is on site in Quebec City.

What you'll be doing:

• Estimate effort and help shape statements of work with delivery managers
• Produce architecture diagrams, decision records and high-level designs
• Lead technical discovery workshops with customer stakeholders
• Support presales with technical answers for RFPs and security questionnaires
• Align solutions with enterprise standards, security controls and data governance
• Review designs from engineering teams and flag risks early
• Advise on build-versus-buy decisions and vendor selection

Qualifications:

• 7+ years in software engineering, infrastructure or consulting, with at least three in an architecture role
• Strong diagramming and documentation skills (Lucidchart, Visio, C4 model)
• Comfortable presenting to both executives and engineers
• Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud platform
• Track record estimating projects and working within client budgets
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for client meetings

Desirable:

• Data platform design with Snowflake or Databricks

Why work with us:

Compensation: $179,000 - $215,000/year

• Flexible hours

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thornpoint Threat Labs.