Cloud Architecture Lead: Scale, Security & Reliability

Career Launch; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Launch is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect in New York to lead the design and delivery of reliable software for growing technology companies. This role requires deep system design expertise, strong technical judgment, and excellent communication across product, data, and go-to-market teams.

The position emphasizes mentoring peers, driving architectural decisions, and translating business goals into pragmatic engineering milestones, with compensation aligned to market and project scope.

Qualifications

• A record of shipping and operating complex software in a senior engineering role.
• Strong system design, technical judgment, and written communication.
• Experience working across product and business functions in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to lead ambiguous work from initial problem definition through production results.
• Experience coaching peers or leading technical programs without relying on formal authority.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the employer without misrepresenting work status.

Responsibilities

• Guide cloud architecture, modernization, reliability, cost, and security decisions.
• Own architecture and technical decisions for high-impact products and platform capabilities.
• Translate business and product goals into pragmatic engineering plans and milestones.
• Build, review, and improve production systems with attention to reliability, security, and performance.
• Raise engineering standards through design reviews, documentation, testing, and operational discipline.
• Mentor engineers and improve collaboration across product, data, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Use metrics and incident learning to prioritize technical investment and reduce recurring risk.

Skills

System design

Technical judgment

Written communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Decision making

Job description

Career Launch is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect in New York to lead the design and delivery of reliable software for growing technology companies. This role requires deep system design expertise, strong technical judgment, and excellent communication across product, data, and go-to-market teams.

The position emphasizes mentoring peers, driving architectural decisions, and translating business goals into pragmatic engineering milestones, with compensation aligned to market and project scope.