Principal Cloud Architect- Hybrid New York, NY

Principal Cloud Architect

As the Principal Cloud Architect, you’ll be the person ultimately accountable for the architecture, reliability, and long-term viability of both the company’s web platform and the PowerPoint add-in.
You’ll own the hard calls on distributed systems, hybrid networking between customer on-prem and AWS, and the future-state patterns required to satisfy the security, and compliance demands of global financial institutions.

The company is located in New York, NY and will be 4 days onsite a week.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Architect, validate, and refine the web app and PowerPoint add-in for high-scale enterprise use.
• Build and govern hybrid connectivity patterns between customer data centers and AWS (Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink).
• Tear apart existing microservices and deployment patterns and rebuild what doesn’t meet enterprise standards.
• Make the hard trade-off calls around languages, messaging, data movement, and integration.
• Define future-state architectures that satisfy strict security, compliance, and scalability constraints in the financial sector.
• Own and maintain technical roadmaps for the company’s modular, cloud-native architecture direction.
• Align engineering, product, and leadership on architectural priorities and constraints.
• Mentor engineers and instill architectural discipline across teams.
• Present architecture decisions to enterprise IT/security stakeholders and stand behind them.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years across software development, cloud engineering, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated success designing and delivering distributed or cloud-native systems at scale (AWS strongly preferred).
• Experience leading cloud transformations or building hybrid integrations from scratch.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security boundaries, and data isolation models.
• Strong communicator capable of explaining complex architectural reasoning to executives, customers, and engineers without hand-waving.
• Proven ability to produce real architecture artifacts, run design reviews, and drive multi-team engineering initiatives to completion.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.