Principal Cloud Architect

Talent Vidas; India; Remote; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Vidas is seeking a Principal Architect to lead delivery teams in designing enterprise-scale cloud-native solutions on AWS. You will align with stakeholders, define architecture strategy, and drive high-impact implementations while contributing reusable frameworks and best practices across the cloud ecosystem.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, solution design, and strategic consulting with a focus on security, scalability, and performance across multi-project engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 8+ years overall and 3-5+ years of experience as a Cloud Architect, preferably in consulting environments.
• Strong expertise in: AWS cloud architecture and services; Serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway); Distributed systems and cloud-native design patterns.
• Hands-on experience with: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK); DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines; Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate).
• Strong understanding of: Cloud security, networking, and API design; Scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills; Experience in client-facing and consulting roles.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure AWS cloud solutions and architectures.
• Translate business requirements into end-to-end technical architectures and roadmaps.
• Lead discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution design discussions.
• Define long-term cloud strategy and modernization approaches.
• Act as technical advisor across engagements and provide architectural direction.
• Guide teams through complex challenges and ensure delivery excellence.
• Ensure best practices in scalability, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with stakeholders for architecture design, estimation, and proposals.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Serverless

Distributed Systems

IaC

DevOps

Containerization

Security & Networking

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/Fargate

CI/CD Tools

Job description

We are seeking a Principal Architect to join our client-facing delivery teams and lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale, cloud-native solutions. In this role, you will work closely with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to define architecture strategy and drive high-impact AWS implementations.

You will play a key role in solution architecture, technical leadership, and strategic consulting, while contributing to reusable frameworks, best practices, and innovation across our cloud ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Strategy

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud solutions on AWS
• Translate business requirements into end-to-end technical architectures and roadmaps
• Lead discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution design discussions
• Define long-term cloud strategy and modernization approaches

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Act as a technical advisor and thought leader across multiple engagements
• Provide architectural direction across design, build, and delivery phases
• Guide teams through complex technical challenges and ensure delivery excellence
• Ensure adherence to best practices across scalability, performance, and security

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Architect solutions leveraging AWS services such as:

1. API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront
2. Design and implement serverless and distributed architectures
3. Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)

• Enable DevOps practices including CI/CD, automation, and containerization

Stakeholder Engagement & Pre-Sales

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals and define solution approaches
• Support pre-sales through architecture design, estimation, and proposal inputs
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Identify risks and provide strategic recommendations for mitigation

Mentorship & Practice Development

• Mentor architects and engineers, driving technical excellence across teams
• Contribute to standards, reusable assets, and reference architectures
• Support internal capability building and knowledge sharing initiatives
• Represent the organization through strong technical leadership and delivery quality

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred)
• 8+ years overall and 3-5+ years of experience as a Cloud Architect, preferably in consulting environments
• Strong expertise in:
• AWS cloud architecture and services
  Serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
  Distributed systems and cloud-native design patterns
• Hands-on experience with:
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
  DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
  Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate)
• Strong understanding of:
• Cloud security, networking, and API design
  Scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in client-facing and consulting roles

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Experience with:

• Cloud migrations and modernization programs
• Multi-cloud environments
• Scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Incident, release, and change management

• Familiarity with Agile delivery environments
• Experience contributing to technical thought leadership
• Technical Skills
  Experience with AWS Security Services.
• Experience with Application CI/CD strategy and/or processes. Tools: Drone CI - BitBucket Pipelines - GitHub Action - GitLab - Jenkins - ArgoCD - Codefresh - FluxCD - CircleCI
• Experience with IaC (Infraestructure as Code) strategy and/or processes. Tools: AWS CDK Python - AWS CDK TypeScript - Cloudformation - Terraform - Ansible - Puppet - Chef - Pulumi
• Experience with Observability (Monitoring, Logs, alerting) strategy and/or processes. Tools: AWS Cloudwatch - AWS Container Insights - New Relic - DataDog - Prometheus - Grafana - Logging
• Experience with any other Cloud Provider. If yes, which one? (GCP, Azure, etc)
• Experience with containers and orchestration tools. Tools: Docker - ECS - K8s - Helm - EKS - AKS - GKE
• Experience with foundational services offered by AWS including compute, storage, networking, databases, and identity & access management (IAM)
• Experience with migrations from on premises to cloud or between different cloud providers.