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—you'll be as comfortable building proof-of-concepts as you are presenting a multi-year platform roadmap to executives.
The role will appeal to technically curious architects who stay current through experimentation and prototyping, value shipping working solutions over lengthy documentation, and can translate between business outcomes and technical implementation. Rather than enforcing rigid frameworks, you'll enable teams through lightweight principles, working code, and collaborative problem-solving. You balance pragmatism with vision—enabling rapid iteration while maintaining architectural integrity across a complex digital ecosystem.
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—token optimization strategies, prompt caching patterns, knowledge stores, skill centralization.
Incorporate secure-by-design principles from inception.
Experiment with and evaluate emerging AI platform capabilities and cloud-native technologies to guide strategic adoption decisions and share learnings across the organization.
Partner with business and IT stakeholders to shape portfolio architecture that delivers measurable business value, reduces time to market, and aligns platform initiatives with enterprise strategy and long-term roadmaps—translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Co-create lightweight architecture principles and patterns with engineering teams—enabling autonomy while maintaining alignment, favoring ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) and working code over lengthy governance documents.
Develop outcome-driven roadmaps and capability maps using data and metrics; validate architectural decisions through rapid prototyping in production-like environments before scaling to implementation teams.
Provide technical leadership through code reviews, pair programming sessions, and architecture workshops—comfortable diving into APIs, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and integration patterns when needed.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum 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 (Azure ML, SageMaker, Databricks, or similar).
Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (compute, networking, security, app hosting, monitoring) across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Understanding of AI agent architecture, including agentic patterns, multi-agent orchestration, agent harness frameworks, tool integration, skills design, and memory management.
Experience with developer tooling ecosystem: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
Experience reading and writing code in Python, TypeScript, or similar; git flow; prototyping with frameworks like FastAPI, React, or similar; understanding modern dev workflows.
Effective communicator who can translate complex concepts into clear solutions for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Curious, hands-on, and pragmatic with experience in prototyping, influencing decisions through code/ADRs, working with LLM frameworks or platform engineering concepts, and continuously learning through experimentation.
We acknowledge the value of transferable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 22, 2026.
Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.
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Who we are:
Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
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The Cenovus experience
Total rewards
We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:
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
Our development philosophy
We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:
Internal course offerings
Education assistance for additional development
Opportunities to work on special projects
Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders
We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.
Our culture
Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
Our values:
Protect what matters
Do it right
Make it better
Do it together
Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.
Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.
Equal opportunity employer
We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.
To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.
The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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