Principal Architect

📋 Description

• Lead architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML for complex engagements.
• Serve as senior technical authority on cross-functional teams.
• Define tech strategy with leadership; mentor engineers.
• Architect end-to-end cloud, data, and AI platforms.
• Ship production-ready AI in 30 to 45 days.
• Ensure security, governance, and compliance in architecture.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years software engineering; 5+ years tech leadership.
• Cloud-native architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP in multicloud.
• Data architecture: warehouses, lakes, pipelines (Snowflake, BigQuery).
• AI/ML systems: model serving, MLOps, LLM apps (SageMaker, Vertex AI).
• Microservices, serverless, containers, event-driven (Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda).
• IaC/CI/CD: Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, GitHub Actions.
• Data orchestration: Airflow/Prefect; dbt.
• Strong stakeholder communication.