Principal Cloud Architect: Multi-Cloud Platform & AI

Career Techniques; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Techniques is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to own the technical direction of our public cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. You will set architecture standards, governance controls, and guide engineering teams from discovery through production, ensuring scalable, secure platforms with AI tooling integrated as a quality gate.

You will design landing zones, multi-cloud networks, data platform architectures, and AI workflows, mentor engineers, participate in architecture reviews,

Qualifications

• Experience translating CAF/Well-Architected into concrete controls.
• Strong governance and policy-as-code capabilities.
• Experience with multi-account AWS and multi-subscription Azure.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud architecture standards across AWS and Azure.
• Architect multi-cloud landing zones and hub-and-spoke networks.
• Lead data platform architecture and governance.
• Design AI inference gateway and agentic AI workflows.
• Mentor engineers and participate in architecture reviews.

Skills

AWS & Azure cloud architecture

Kubernetes (AKS/EKS)

Cloud networking

Terraform IaC

Policy-as-code & governance

Leadership without authority

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

CCNA or equivalent networking certification

Tools

Terraform

AKS/EKS

Azure Policy

AWS SCPs/RCPs

Job description

Career Techniques is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to own the technical direction of our public cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. You will set architecture standards, governance controls, and guide engineering teams from discovery through production, ensuring scalable, secure platforms with AI tooling integrated as a quality gate.

You will design landing zones, multi-cloud networks, data platform architectures, and AI workflows, mentor engineers, participate in architecture reviews,