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About the Role

Raising The Village (RTV) is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to define, validate, and govern the end-to-end architecture for the next generation of the Venn platform. This role is crucial for establishing the architectural foundation that will support RTV's scale and operations across multiple countries for the next decade. The architect will translate business and program needs into a future-proof architecture, ensuring RTV's engineering and product teams are equipped with a clear roadmap, validated design decisions, and a sequenced implementation plan.

Responsibilities

Own the target architecture for Venn end-to-end: applications, data, services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, security, and integration layers.
Establish architectural principles, standards, and a decision-making framework for engineering and data teams.
Design the data architecture: data warehouse modernization, data models, lineage, metadata frameworks, and automated cleaning workflows.
Architect modular, reusable platform services and API standards that support multi-country and multi-tenant requirements, including offline and low-connectivity constraints.
Design cloud-native infrastructure across distributed, scalable, multi-environment workloads, with governance, resilience, and security built in.
Define the security architecture: identity, access control, encryption, and compliance.
Translate architecture into sequenced implementation plans in partnership with engineering, MEL, and product teams.
Lead structured knowledge transfer to ensure long-term sustainability after the engagement closes.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in platform, cloud, solution, or enterprise architecture roles, including ownership of large scale, business critical systems.
Equivalent combination of education and extensive architecture experience will also be considered.
Familiarity with mobile data collection tools used in low-connectivity or field contexts.
Track record of knowledge transfer to in-house engineering teams.

Skills

Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Strong background in data architecture, including data modeling, metadata frameworks, and modern Lakehouse environments
Demonstrated experience with multi-tenant or multi-environment architectures
Proven ability to design modular platform services, APIs, and integration patterns
Strong understanding of security architecture, IAM, and compliance
Experience with metadata-driven design, canonical data models, or semantic layers.
Cloud architecture certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent).
Experience in international development, social impact, or NGO environments.

Location

Toronto

Work Type

Hybrid work environment (3 days in office and 2 days remote.)
Full-Time
6-month contract

Experience Level

10+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

About the Company

Raising The Village (RTV) is an international development organization working to end ultra‑poverty in last‑mile rural communities across sub‑Saharan Africa.
Our 24‑month universal graduation programs combine targeted material support with agency‑building interventions to help households move durably out of ultra‑poverty.
RTV is investing in the next generation of Venn, an integrated platform for program delivery, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
What sets Venn apart is its unique ability to unify two critical domains: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) and Systems.
Getting this platform right has direct consequences for program delivery at scale across multiple countries.