Senior Portfolio Architect – Technology Resilience

Calgary, AB
On-site
Posted Oct 17, 2026
1 position

US$70–US$80 / hour

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Define enterprise resilience architecture, standards, roadmaps, and reference architectures, and lead Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, High Availability, and Operational Resilience initiatives. Drive recovery automation, reliability engineering, dependency mapping, and resilience governance in collaboration with architecture, security, cloud, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

Job details

Job Title: Senior Portfolio Architect – Technology Resilience Location: Calgary, AB, Canada Duration: 6+ Months Job Summary Seeking a Senior Portfolio Architect to lead technology resilience architecture, including Disaster Recovery (DR), Cyber Recovery, Operational Resilience, recovery automation, and reliability engineering. The role will define architecture standards, roadmaps, and strategies to improve enterprise technology resilience. Key Responsibilities Define resilience architecture, standards, roadmaps, and reference architectures. Lead Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, High Availability, and Operational Resilience initiatives. Drive recovery automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), orchestration, and automated failover. Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, and resilience testing practices. Develop enterprise dependency mapping and recovery sequencing models. Support ServiceNow CMDB, service mapping, and cloud resilience initiatives. Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams. Lead architecture reviews, governance, and resilience improvement initiatives. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. 8+ years of experience in architecture, infrastructure, cloud, engineering, or reliability. Experience in Enterprise, Portfolio, Solution, or Platform Architecture. Strong knowledge of Disaster Recovery, Cyber Recovery, High Availability, or Operational Resilience. Understanding of cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, recovery automation, and dependency mapping. Knowledge of SRE, observability, ServiceNow CMDB, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering is preferred.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, plus 8 or more years of relevant architecture, infrastructure, cloud, engineering, or reliability experience. Candidates should have architecture experience and strong knowledge of resilience disciplines, with familiarity in cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, recovery automation, and dependency mapping; SRE, observability, ServiceNow CMDB, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering are preferred.