Senior Cloud Data Architect for Scalable Systems

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Architect for its Cloud Data Services Team to design and operate high-scale data services powering Akamai's platform.

You will lead technical direction, coach engineers, and drive production-ready cloud architectures, focusing on relational and NoSQL databases, in-memory stores, and scalable data pipelines.

This role requires deep architectural experience and hands-on development to translate prototypes into repeatable patterns across global deployments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant architecture experience and a Bachelor's degree.
• Experience designing scalable, secure cloud architectures.
• Experience with Terraform, scripting, and database architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, highly available cloud and data architectures.
• Evaluate cloud technologies for new platform capabilities.
• Serve as SME for database architectures (PostgreSQL, Oracle).
• Design highly available, replicated, distributed database architectures.
• Build prototypes and reference implementations for scalability and security.
• Translate prototypes into production-ready architectures.

Skills

Terraform modules

Python

Go

Bash

Relational databases (PostgreSQL / SQL

NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

In-memory / key-value (Redis, Valkey)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

MongoDB

Redis

Valkey

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Architect for its Cloud Data Services Team to design and operate high-scale data services powering Akamai's platform.

You will lead technical direction, coach engineers, and drive production-ready cloud architectures, focusing on relational and NoSQL databases, in-memory stores, and scalable data pipelines.

This role requires deep architectural experience and hands-on development to translate prototypes into repeatable patterns across global deployments.