Principal Cloud Architect
About Caylent
Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production.
Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first.
We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!
You will play a key role in solution architecture, technical leadership, and strategic consulting, while contributing to reusable frameworks, best practices, and innovation across our cloud ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Strategy
Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud solutions on AWS
Translate business requirements into end-to-end technical architectures and roadmaps
Lead discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution design discussions.
Define long-term cloud strategy and modernization approaches
Technical Leadership & Delivery
Act as a technical advisor and thought leader across multiple engagements.
Provide architectural direction across design, build, and delivery phases
Guide teams through complex technical challenges and ensure delivery excellence
Ensure adherence to best practices across scalability, performance, and security.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Architect solutions leveraging AWS services such as:
API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront
Design and implement serverless and distributed architectures
Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
Enable DevOps practices including CI/CD, automation, and containerization
Stakeholder Engagement & Pre-Sales
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals and define solution approaches
Support pre-sales through architecture design, estimation, and proposal inputs
Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Identify risks and provide strategic recommendations for mitigation
Mentorship & Practice Development
Mentor architects and engineers, driving technical excellence across teams
Contribute to standards, reusable assets, and reference architectures
Support internal capability building and knowledge sharing initiatives
Represent the organization through strong technical leadership and delivery quality
Requirements
Skills & Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred)
12+ years of overall experience, with strong experience as an AWS Architect, preferably with at least 3+ years in a relevant AWS Architecture role
Strong expertise in:
○ AWS cloud architecture and services
○ Serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
○ Distributed systems and cloud-native design patterns
Hands-on experience with:
○ Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
○ DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
○ Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate)
Strong understanding of:
