Senior AI Architect: Cloud, Data & ML Systems

Robots & Pencils; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Principal Architect to lead design and delivery of complex, multi-domain systems spanning cloud, data, and AI. You will own architectural direction and be the senior technical voice on engagements.

You will define architecture across cloud infra, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership and clients on technical strategy, guiding high-stakes decisions that shape long-term success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with 5+ years in technical leadership.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong background in microservices, containers, and event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems for end-to-end engagements.
• Architect scalable cloud-native solutions, including multi-cloud and hybrid strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes).
• Design data architectures including warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines for batch and streaming workloads (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka).
• Design AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and LLM-based applications (SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLflow, Hugging Face).
• Define infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards across engagements (Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions).
• Drive performance, scalability, cost, and reliability optimization across deployed systems.
• Ensure architecture meets security, governance, and compliance requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2).
• Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives.
• Bring an AI-forward mindset to daily work, using tools like Claude and Cursor to ship higher-quality work.
• Partner with senior leadership and clients as the principal technical voice on strategy and direction.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Multi-cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Data engineering

AI/ML systems

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Principal Architect to lead design and delivery of complex, multi-domain systems spanning cloud, data, and AI. You will own architectural direction and be the senior technical voice on engagements.

You will define architecture across cloud infra, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership and clients on technical strategy, guiding high-stakes decisions that shape long-term success.