Staff Cloud Architect: AI & Data Platform Lead

Robots & Pencils; Kentucky; On-site; USD 52,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm seeking a Staff Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML workloads. You will drive technical strategy, own multi-domain designs, and mentor engineers while ensuring scalable, secure systems.

This role focuses on cloud migrations, platform modernization, and collaboration with leadership to align technical direction with business goals. Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, and AI tooling is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in architecture or leadership
• Strong cloud-native & multi-cloud architectures
• Experience with microservices, containers, and event-driven systems
• Proficient with IaC and CI/CD practices

Responsibilities

• Define architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML for end-to-end engagements
• Architect scalable cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes
• Design data architectures with warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines
• Lead architectural standards and mentoring of engineers

Skills

Cloud platforms expertise

Microservices & serverless

Data architecture

Python & APIs

AI/ML production systems

Security & IAM in cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Snowflake

BigQuery

Spark

Kafka

SageMaker

Vertex AI

MLflow

Job description

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm seeking a Staff Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML workloads. You will drive technical strategy, own multi-domain designs, and mentor engineers while ensuring scalable, secure systems.

This role focuses on cloud migrations, platform modernization, and collaboration with leadership to align technical direction with business goals. Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, and AI tooling is essential.