System Architect - Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics

The Integrated Youth Services (IYS) data platform is a federated, bilingual, pan-Canadian learning health system that brings together integrated youth services networks and hubs across the country to transform mental health and substance use care for young people. The platform enables cross-network utilization reporting, population needs assessment, program evaluation, and service infrastructure analysis — all while ensuring that each partner network retains ownership and control of its own data. Delivered through the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (KCNI) at CAMH, the initiative emphasizes open, reproducible, data-driven research, strong data governance, and global collaboration.

Reporting to the KCNI Operations Manager, the full-time, contract (12 months) Solution Architect leads the cloud and solution architecture for the IYS data platform. Built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and designed around partner data sovereignty, the platform requires an architect to own the end-to-end design, integrity, and evolution of the GCP environment and its integration with CAMH's broader on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

Working in close partnership with the platform's Data Architect, the Solution Architect owns the technology and infrastructure architecture — GCP organization and landing-zone design, the multi-tenant folder-per-partner model, identity federation, networking, security perimeters, and the container and AI-serving substrate — while the Data Architect leads the data models, governance, and semantic layers. The role translates research and program objectives into scalable, secure, and portable solutions; produces architectural diagrams and decision records; and leads stakeholder engagement across IYS network partners, CAMH IT and Information Management Group (IMG) teams, and vendors. Portability and open standards (e.g., containerized workloads on GKE and infrastructure-as-code) are a central design principle, keeping the platform free of vendor lock-in.
Because CAMH operates a hybrid estate — Microsoft Azure and Entra ID underpin identity and enterprise services, and the on-premise footprint is expanding with the organization's move to a new building — the Solution Architect must pair cloud expertise with a strong working understanding of on-premise infrastructure. The role designs the connective tissue between environments: hybrid connectivity, Entra ID-to-GCP identity federation, and consistent security, logging, and monitoring across cloud and data-centre boundaries — ensuring IYS solutions interoperate cleanly with CAMH's on-premise and Azure-based services while meeting the privacy and security requirements appropriate to sensitive health data.

Lead the design and evolution of the IYS platform's cloud and solution architecture on GCP, aligning it with research and program objectives and requirements for scalability, security, and partner data sovereignty; produce architectural diagrams, decision records, and specifications to communicate the design to stakeholders and partners.