Principal Cloud Architect – Customer Intelligence – Hybrid, UK or Cary, North Carolina
We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence — and questions into answers. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world‑class employee experience, you’ll find it here. We’re recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the principal advisor to the Customer Intelligence organization on matters of architecture and system design.
- Facilitate conversations with stakeholders to discover requirements, gather context, uncover limitations, and understand business objectives.
- Advocate for recommendations, promote understanding of design decisions, and provide oversight and guidance throughout the planning and execution of the vision.
- Plan evolutionary paths for SAS software architectures, incorporating dependent third‑party architectural changes and new technology adoption.
- Create, maintain, and organize detailed documentation and visualizations about technical designs with supporting justification for architectural and design choices.
- Influence, arbitrate, and/or enforce design decisions that have a broad impact across projects, teams, and products.
- Provide technical guidance on methodologies, frameworks, and best practices to developers to encourage information flow and promote understanding among product teams.
- Enforce consistency in code design and practice, ensuring the technical aspects of applications and products produced by R&D adhere to the strategic goals of SAS.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related quantitative field.
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
- Demonstrated expertise in AWS, Cloud Engineering, and SaaS Architectures.
- Expertise around Kubernetes, Containerization, Databases, Kafka, Lambda, Git.
- Experience developing microservices, web applications, and REST interfaces.
- Knowledge of common data structures and experience working with large data sources.
- Familiarity with industry standards relating to security and SRE.
- Awareness of AI technologies and understanding of effective integration paradigms.
- Equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Additional Competencies
- Decision Making – trusted to make recommendations that materially affect the success of our offerings.
- Innovation – creative and devise unique solutions to complex problems that provide competitive advantage.
- Technology Savvy – keep apprised of emerging industry trends and technology to consistently recommend modern approaches to our challenges.
- Communication – persuade others to implement recommendations.
Benefits
- World‑class benefits.
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include:
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on‑site health care center).
- On‑site Health Care Center (HQ) free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. Pharmacy also available.
- An industry‑leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and resources to support development.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much‑loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave, and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full‑time employees.
