A.I. Solutions Architect

Cloud Solution Architect – Data & AI About the Role We are seeking a motivated and technically strong Cloud Solution Architect to join our Cloud Data Solutions team. This role is ideal for someone with experience designing and implementing cloud solutions who wants to expand their expertise in modern data platforms, AI enablement, and enterprise architecture.

The successful candidate will partner with senior architects, engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to design scalable cloud-native solutions, build data products, and contribute to foundational AI capabilities. This is a highly hands-on role that combines solution architecture, cloud engineering, and data engineering. You will have the opportunity to help establish the data foundations that support analytics, business intelligence, automation, and emerging AI initiatives across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, cloud-native solutions using AWS and Databricks.
• Translate business and technical requirements into secure, reliable, and cost-effective architecture.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Python, and SQL.
• Build and support enterprise lakehouse data products and integrate data from diverse sources.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, governance, and operational controls.
• Optimize cloud data platforms and processing workloads for performance and cost efficiency.
• Enable AI, analytics, and automation use cases through trusted, well-structured data assets.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Troubleshoot platform and data pipeline issues across development and production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance architecture standards, platform capabilities, and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. 2–5 years of experience in solution architecture, cloud engineering, software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, Python, SQL, and modern data architectures (data warehouse, data lake, or lakehouse).
• Knowledge of CI/CD, source control, and DevOps practices.
• Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Preferred Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and enterprise data pipelines.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud automation, and data governance concepts.
• Exposure to AI/ML, large language models (LLMs), or intelligent automation solutions.
• AWS, Databricks, or related cloud certifications.
• Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status.
• Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets.
• Our goal is to create an environment where self-directed, empowered employees strive to consistently fulfill our constituent commitments and seek to create positive impacts through interactions with customers, communities, and fellow employees.
• OUR PEOPLE MEAN EVERYTHING TO US Waste Connections is always working to protect the health of the communities we serve, and we are grateful for the hard work and dedication that you bring to your job every day.
• Working here means you are a safety-minded individual who is making important contributions on a daily basis that will make a positive impact on those around you.
• We appreciate that you are a person of integrity who takes pride in the work you do.
• Our Opportunities BUILD TALENT FROM WITHIN People who want to gain valuable professional experience will find that Waste Connections is a fantastic place to work.
• You’ll enjoy the opportunity for beneficial training and professional development opportunities that can help enhance your skills and lead the way to a more promising future.
• LET’S REALIZE YOUR GOALS TOGETHER Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities are all around you.
• At Waste Connections, you’ll thrive if you are friendly, dedicated, and prefer a work hard/play hard culture that is focused on maintaining our reputation as the premier waste services company in the markets we serve.
• Bring your passion to succeed and you’ll quickly discover that great opportunities and people are all around you.
• We operate a highly decentralized structure, so we look for energetic individuals who can demonstrate individual initiative and creativity and prefer a work hard/play hard team environment and culture.
• At Waste Connections, diversity and inclusion are essential to our success.
• We hire and empower great, capable people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lead with our values.
• For more than 20 years, we have maintained a culture of safety, integrity and service to build a great place to work.
• Our culture is built on taking care of each other and the communities we serve.