Principal Cloud Architect - AWS
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United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSArtificial IntelligenceMicroservicesDistributed SystemsNetworking
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture with principal-level ownership on AWS
- Proven experience defining and owning target-state architecture for complex platforms
- Deep expertise across AWS core services including compute, networking, identity, data, and security
- Strong experience designing multi-tenant architectures and isolation strategies
- Proven ability to design resilient, highly available, multi-region systems
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, encryption, IAM, and data protection practices
- Experience establishing architectural governance and decision-making frameworks
- Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with near-term delivery needs
- Experience scaling platforms toward enterprise or regulated environments
- Background in high-growth environments transitioning to enterprise scale
- Experience supporting AI-enabled or data-intensive platforms (preferred)
- Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected frameworks and enterprise reference architectures (preferred)
- Experience working with external partners while maintaining architectural governance (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Assess current AWS architecture and define a multi-year target-state roadmap aligned to business and product strategy
- Establish architectural principles, reference patterns, and governance models
- Design and evolve multi-tenant isolation strategies across compute, data, and messaging layers
- Define and enforce security-by-design standards including encryption, access control, and auditability
- Architect resilient, multi-AZ and multi-region systems with clear failure domains and disaster recovery strategies
- Define RTO and RPO targets and validate through testing and failover exercises
- Standardize AWS service usage across compute, networking, identity, storage, and messaging
- Guide event-driven and API-based architecture patterns
- Evaluate managed vs self-managed services with a long-term total cost perspective
- Lead architectural direction with external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with internal standards
- Define and implement observability architecture across logging, metrics, tracing, and security signals
- Establish architecture governance including review processes, decision frameworks, and data protection standards
- Define data classification, handling, and tenant-aware data boundaries
- Partner with security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure audit readiness
- Evolve AWS organization structure including account strategy, OU design, and policy enforcement
- Design architecture foundations to support AI capabilities including retrieval systems, inference, and agent-driven workflows
- Ensure AI workloads align with tenant isolation, privacy, and governance requirements
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