Staff Cloud Architect L4
Robots and Pencils12 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and lead architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems for end-to-end engagements.
- Architect scalable cloud-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid solutions using platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
- Design data warehouses, data lakes, batch and streaming pipelines, and production AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps, feature stores, and LLM applications.
- Define infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards across engagements.
- Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization while optimizing performance, scalability, cost, and reliability.
- Ensure architectures satisfy security, governance, compliance, and responsible-technology requirements.
- Partner with clients, leadership, engineering, data, AI, and product teams to translate business goals into technical decisions.
- Document architecture standards and guidelines, evaluate emerging technologies, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Act as a technical escalation point for complex architectural and integration challenges.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in architecture or technical leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience with microservices, serverless systems, containers, and event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and GitHub Actions.
- Strong data architecture experience across relational, NoSQL, and big data systems, with hands-on data modeling, ETL/ELT, and orchestration experience.
- Production experience designing AI/ML systems, including LLMs, MLOps, model serving, and tools such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLflow, Hugging Face, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
- Understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, access management, governance, compliance, and observability.
- Strong software engineering skills, including Python and containerization.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder communication, and architecture documentation skills.
- Demonstrable use of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor.
- Multi-cloud architecture, AI ethics or responsible AI experience, and enterprise architecture certifications such as TOGAF or AWS/Azure/GCP certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Six-month contract.
- Compensation range of CAD $53–$74 per hour.
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Applicants must be located in Canada or the United States; applications from outside Canada and the US will not be considered.
- Employment may be conditional on successful completion of a background check.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzuredbtDockerGitHub ActionsGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMLflowMongoDBPostgreSQLPythonPyTorchSnowflakeTensorFlowTerraform
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.