Principal Cloud Architect – Customer Intelligence – Hybrid, UK or Cary, North Carolina
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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.
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