Cenovus

Cenovus

Portfolio Architect

CA-AB-Calgary

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About the role

  • 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.
  • We acknowledge the value of transferable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

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).
  • 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
  • Our ideal candidate will have the following. minimum requirements:

Skills

  • Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (compute, networking, security, app hosting, monitoring) across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.
  • Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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Compensation

  • Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

Benefits

  • 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
  • Virtual healthcare coverage
  • We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers.
  • Education assistance for additional development
  • 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.

Company info

  • 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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  • Employee family assistance
  • Internal course offerings
  • Opportunities to work on special projects
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