Principal Architect

Summary

Join Caylent, a cloud native services company, as a Principal Architect to contribute to our growing Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. Work alongside engineers, architects, sales, and project managers to deliver AWS solutions to diverse customers. Lead discovery sessions, design high-impact cloud solutions, and guide teams through implementation. Create and share public-facing content showcasing Caylent's innovation. Support pre-sales activities and mentor other architects and engineers. This role requires deep expertise in cloud architecture and strong communication skills.

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
• 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
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• Generous holidays and flexible PTO
• Competitive phantom equity
• 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