Lead Cloud & Data Architect for AI-Powered Platforms

Elevanta Partners; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevanta Partners invites a Principal Cloud & Data Architect to drive architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and modern data/AI platforms. This hands-on technical leadership role translates ambiguous requirements into scalable designs, shapes engagements, and owns delivery outcomes.

The role blends strategic direction with practical engineering judgment, establishing standards while balancing security, cost, and operability across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT services experience in infrastructure, cloud, or data engineering with architecture ownership.
• Hands-on with AWS or Azure; Kubernetes in production; IaC tooling (Terraform or equivalent).
• Experience designing modern data platforms (lakehouse/warehouse) with governance and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Define reference architectures, landing zones, and standards across AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and IaC.
• Design lakehouse/warehouse, streaming, governance patterns, and GenAI-ready platform layers.
• Lead technical discovery, size and de-risk work, and write solution designs and scope.
• Mentor architects and engineers; drive reusable accelerators and architecture reviews.
• Apply AI tools across discovery, design, IaC, code generation, and estimates; set AI guardrails.
• Own IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, logging; ensure SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness; balance security with delivery speed.
• Ensure run cost, reliability targets, observability, and rollback plans are included in every design.

Skills

Cloud platforms: AWS / Azure

Kubernetes in prod

Terraform / IaC

Data platform design

AI tooling for delivery

Security architecture

Business value articulation

Executive communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Amazon Redshift

IAM tooling

Job description

Elevanta Partners invites a Principal Cloud & Data Architect to drive architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and modern data/AI platforms. This hands-on technical leadership role translates ambiguous requirements into scalable designs, shapes engagements, and owns delivery outcomes.

The role blends strategic direction with practical engineering judgment, establishing standards while balancing security, cost, and operability across multi-cloud environments.