Staff Cloud Architect – L4

🔥 23 hours ago

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $53 - $74 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Robots & Pencils

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-04

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm that specializes in developing digital strategies and products utilizing mobile, web, and frontier technologies to drive transformation for businesses. They focus on areas such as mobile development, product design, UX research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and organizational change management. With a commitment to blending creativity with technology, they aim to unlock data insights and enhance product innovation, ultimately delivering excellent customer experiences and helping brands gain a competitive edge.

📋 Description

• Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems for end-to-end engagements • Architect scalable cloud-native solutions, including multi-cloud and hybrid strategies • Design data architectures including warehouses, data lakes, and batch and streaming pipelines • Design AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and LLM-based applications • Define infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards • Drive performance, scalability, cost, and reliability optimization • Ensure architecture meets security, governance, and compliance requirements • Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives • Use AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor to deliver quality work efficiently • Partner with leadership and clients on technical direction and translate business goals into architectural decisions • Communicate complex technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders • Collaborate with engineering, data, AI, and product teams • Develop and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and guidelines • Establish architectural standards and best practices • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers • Act as a technical escalation point for complex architectural and integration challenges • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools, frameworks, and patterns

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in architecture or technical leadership roles • Deep expertise in cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including AWS, Azure, and GCP • Strong background in microservices, serverless, containers, and event-driven systems, including Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and EventBridge • Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and GitHub Actions • Strong data architecture expertise across relational, NoSQL, and big data systems, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, and Kafka • Hands-on experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration, including Airflow, Prefect, and dbt • Strong experience designing production AI/ML systems, including LLMs, MLOps, and model serving • Solid understanding of networking, security, identity, and access management in cloud environments • Experience with governance, compliance, and observability frameworks • Strong software engineering skills in Python, APIs, and containerization • Demonstrated leadership and technical mentoring experience • Strong stakeholder communication skills and ability to translate technical depth across audiences • Demonstrable usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor • Multi-cloud architecture experience, AI ethics or responsible AI experience, or enterprise architecture certifications are a plus • Applications from outside Canada and the US will not be considered • Background check may be required in accordance with local legislation

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) for eligible employees • Background check conditional upon local legislation and candidate privacy notice • Equal employment opportunities