Principal Cloud Architect

The Mission

The Mission

Your Assignments

• Serve as a technical advisor and thought leader across multiple workstreams and strategic customer engagements.
• Collaborate with clients to understand business goals and design high-impact, cloud solutions.
• Lead discovery sessions, create and present technical artifacts, and define long-term architectural strategy.
• Guide small teams or oversee larger teams through implementation and delivery.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies and provide architectural direction across internal and external projects.
• Create and share public-facing content that showcases Caylent’s innovation and technical leadership.
• Support pre-sales through proposal development, scoping, and technical estimation.
• Mentor Architects and Engineers across projects and practices to elevate technical execution and growth.
• Represent Caylent with delivery excellence and deep technical leadership.

Your Qualifications

• Core Consulting Qualifications
• Customer Experience
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Technical Qualifications
• Preferred Qualifications

• Customer Experience
• Buils trust with senior stakeholders through transparency, strategic updates, and reliable delivery.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates risks that could impact customer success or project alignment.
• Collaboration
• Facilitates priority alignment and conflict resolution across multi-stakeholder environments.
• Guides cross-functional teams through challenging scenarios with calm, strategic leadership.
• Communication
• Handles escalations and scope-related disagreements with professionalism, clarity, and confidence.
• Remains composed in high-stakes or unexpected situations, reinforcing alignment and proposing actionable next steps.
• Technical Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience as an Architect in enterprise environments, preferably in a consulting capacity.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical objectives and solutions while cultivating professional client relationships.
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking across business, product, and technical challenges.
• Strong expertise in serverless development using API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, and CloudFront.
• Hands-on experience managing AWS environments and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Advanced experience with DevOps automation, including containerization, API management, and multi-cloud solutions.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with:
• Migrations
• CI/CD practices
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Pulumi)
• Scripting
• Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Fargate)
• Cloud security best practices
• Networking
• Incident, release, problem, and change management

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• Competitive phantom equity
• Company issued laptop
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 10 Paid Holidays

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $165,000 - $185,000 per year.

Schedule

N/A