Position Overview As a Cloud Technical Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing our dual cloud strategy across AWS and Azure platforms. You will be responsible for designing robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions that align with the business objectives of a leading global reinsurance and primary insurance group. Your work will support major projects, strategic initiatives such as data center migrations, and the ongoing standardization and harmonization of our cloud environments. By establishing and enforcing architectural guardrails, you will ensure that our use of cloud services is optimized for performance, cost, and governance, enabling the organization to reduce complexity and risk while accelerating innovation.

Your Role:

• Develop and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and guardrails to promote consistency, security, and compliance across the organization.
• Support and guide cloud adoption initiatives, including large-scale data center migrations and cloud-native application deployments.
• Design, document, and maintain cloud architecture blueprints for AWS and Azure, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including application owners, security, infrastructure, and operations—to ensure cloud solutions are fit-for-purpose and meet governance requirements.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools, and practices that best support the organization’s strategic goals.
• Lead technical reviews and provide architectural oversight for key cloud projects and initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for automation, cost optimization, and performance improvement in cloud environments.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud architecture and governance.
• Mentor and train internal teams on cloud architecture concepts, standards, and best practices

Your Profile:

• 7+ years of experience as a Technical Architect.
• 5+ years in Cloud Architecture Expertise: Deep knowledge of AWS (required) and Azure (preferred), including core services, networking, security, and cost management.
• Governance & Standardization: Experience establishing cloud governance frameworks, standards, and guardrails in large, complex organizations.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to align technical solutions with business objectives and long-term strategy.
• Project Leadership: Proven ability to support and guide cloud transformation projects and cross-functional initiatives.
• Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with global teams and stakeholders at all levels.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Problem Solving: Analytical mindset with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving architectural challenges.
• Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying up to date with evolving cloud technologies, best practices, and regulatory requirements.
• Insurance Industry Experience (desirable): Understanding of regulatory and security considerations relevant to the insurance sector.

About Munich Re Together, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better. As the world’s leading reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations around the globe, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, we enable fundamental change. We recognize Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as a key priority with a culture that welcomes different thoughts and opinions. We dare to think big and are continuously innovating on behalf of our clients.

Our data, our technology, and our teams place us in a unique position to drive transformative change in the life insurance industry. We invest strategically in our world class talent, offering our employees a work experience that promotes professional development, innovation, and rewards high performance.

What Can We Offer You? We are pleased to offer our employees great benefits and resources to support their mental, physical and financial wellbeing. These include:

• An engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development
• A hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days
• A great compensation package including annual company bonus
• Market leading company-paid flexible health and dental benefits, starting on your first day
• Flexible dollars provided by the company to put towards Health Spending Account and/or Wellness Spending Account
• Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with an automatic employer contribution, plus optional company match
• Generous time off including vacation, personal days, unplanned time, Statutory Holidays and company-wide early closure half-days
• Learning and development programs and resources, including unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Education Assistance Program and reimbursement for professional fees
• Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up program
• Employee Referral Program, Recognition & Rewards Platform

Our base salary range for this role is between $148,390 and $171,820 per year , plus an opportunity for an annual company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay. The salary estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for candidates hired in this position. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to internal equity.

This role is located in our Toronto office on 390 Bay St , and we operate in a hybrid work model. This job posting is for a new vacancy.

We do not use AI in our recruitment process - applications are reviewed by our team to ensure a fair and personalized experience.

Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.

Munich Re is committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of employment barriers and discrimination. Accommodations will be made for qualified applicants with a disability throughout the recruitment process. If you receive a request for an interview and you have a disability which will require an accommodation to support your participation, please contact AODARequestHR@munichre.ca as soon as practical so that suitable accommodations can be arranged.