Principal Architect

Summary

Join Caylent, a cloud native services company, as a Principal Architect and contribute to their growing Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. You will be responsible for providing technical guidance, collaborating with clients to design cloud solutions, leading implementation, and contributing to Agile ceremonies. This role requires strong expertise in cloud architecture, serverless development, AWS environments, and DevOps automation. You will also be involved in pre-sales activities, mentoring other team members, and representing Caylent with technical leadership.

Requirements

• Builds trust with senior stakeholders through transparency, strategic updates, and reliable delivery
• Proactively identifies and mitigates risks that could impact customer success or project alignment
• Facilitates priority alignment and conflict resolution across multi-stakeholder environments
• Guides cross-functional teams through challenging scenarios with calm, strategic leadership
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with: Migrations
• Experience with: CI/CD practices
• Experience with: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Pulumi)
• Experience with: Scripting
• Experience with: Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Fargate)
• Experience with: Cloud security best practices
• Experience with: Networking
• Experience with: Incident, release, problem, and change management
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Equitable Life - Hybrid Plan
• 100% Premium Coverage for the employee and dependents
• Competitive phantom equity
• Long-Term Disability
• 4% Pension match (employer contribution)
• Unlimited Vacations
• Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture