Senior Cloud Architect - AI & Data Platforms Lead

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff Cloud Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex cloud, data, and AI workloads for enterprise engagements. You will own end-to-end architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to ensure scalable, secure solutions across AWS-native environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on architecture, cross-functional collaboration, and migration initiatives, with a focus on governance, security, and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with leadership responsibilities.
• Deep expertise in AWS cloud platforms.
• Strong background in microservices, containers, and data architectures.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems.
• Architect scalable, AWS-native solutions and data pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate with leadership on technical direction.
• Ensure security, governance, and compliance across engagements.
• Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives.

Skills

AWS cloud

Microservices

Leadership

Security governance

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Spark

Kafka

SageMaker

Vertex AI

MLflow

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff Cloud Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex cloud, data, and AI workloads for enterprise engagements. You will own end-to-end architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to ensure scalable, secure solutions across AWS-native environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on architecture, cross-functional collaboration, and migration initiatives, with a focus on governance, security, and performance.