Principal Cloud Architect- Customer Intelligence

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

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.