Senior Cloud Data Architect: Scale, Security & Global

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work locations

Healthcare benefits

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to lead cloud data services development and architecture. You will design scalable, secure, and highly available systems, mentor engineers, and drive production-ready patterns across global teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, evaluating technologies, and delivering reference architectures for PostgreSQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases in a distributed data environment.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
• Expertise in developing reusable infrastructure using Terraform modules, templates, and deployment patterns.
• Ability to develop scripts using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with in-memory and key-value technologies like Redis and Valkey.
• Understanding of distributed data systems designed for horizontal scalability and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available cloud and data architectures.
• Evaluate cloud technologies and determine suitability for new platform capabilities and services.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for database architectures including PostgreSQL and Oracle.
• Design highly available, replicated, clustered, and geographically distributed database architectures.
• Building prototypes, proof of concepts, and reference implementations to validate scalability and security.
• Converting successful prototypes into repeatable architecture patterns and production-ready designs.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL databases

Education

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

Tools

Terraform modules

Python scripting

Go scripting

Bash scripting

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Redis

Valkey

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to lead cloud data services development and architecture. You will design scalable, secure, and highly available systems, mentor engineers, and drive production-ready patterns across global teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, evaluating technologies, and delivering reference architectures for PostgreSQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases in a distributed data environment.