Senior Cloud Platform Architect — AI-Driven, Elastic Compute

Teradata; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a senior engineering leader to direct agentic development across design, implementation, and operations. You will build workflows and guardrails for AI-assisted coding in a large codebase, and shape platform capabilities including autonomous operations and diagnostics.

You’ll architect scalable compute across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while ensuring security and reliability. You will partner with engineering, product, and operations to ship features with strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software development, large-scale distributed systems or cloud infra.
• Hands-on agentic development with AI coding agents and multi-step workflows.
• Experience with elastic compute architectures on a major cloud provider.
• Ability to design for high availability, performance, security, and multi-tenancy.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for agentic development across design, implementation, testing, code review, debugging, and operations.
• Build and run agent-driven engineering workflows from spec to production-ready code.
• Define guardrails, evaluation methods, quality gates, and security controls.
• Contribute to agent-driven platform capabilities like autonomous operations, tuning, and diagnostics.
• Architect elastic compute that scales with demand across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Lead architectural decisions and coach engineers across the organization.
• Partner with engineering, product, and operations to ship features with improved observability, automation, and resilience.

Skills

Agentic development

Cloud compute

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Autoscaling

Observability

Security controls

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Job description

Teradata is seeking a senior engineering leader to direct agentic development across design, implementation, and operations. You will build workflows and guardrails for AI-assisted coding in a large codebase, and shape platform capabilities including autonomous operations and diagnostics.

You’ll architect scalable compute across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while ensuring security and reliability. You will partner with engineering, product, and operations to ship features with strong