Principal Cloud Architect (AWS)

Serv, a global executive recruitment partner, is hiring on behalf of our client Virtual Intros for a Principal Cloud Architect (AWS). Join the Team: Virtual Intros is building the intelligence layer for meaningful, privacy-first connection across people, companies, and communities, turning real-time engagement into measurable business value. Its architecture reflects this ambition, leveraging containerized microservices, Infrastructure as Code, multi-environment isolation, and distributed systems designed for high-concurrency, event-driven workloads and evolving AI-driven capabilities. To learn more please visit: Not provided Position Responsibilities: This role is responsible for defining and leading the evolution of the AWS platform into a secure, resilient, tenant-aware, and enterprise-ready foundation. You will set architectural direction, establish governance, and ensure the platform can scale to support both current enterprise needs and future AI-enabled capabilities. This role includes:

• Assess current AWS architecture and define a multi-year target-state roadmap aligned to business and product strategy
• Establish architectural principles, reference patterns, and governance models
• Design and evolve multi-tenant isolation strategies across compute, data, and messaging layers
• Define and enforce security-by-design standards including encryption, access control, and auditability
• Architect resilient, multi-AZ and multi-region systems with clear failure domains and disaster recovery strategies
• Define RTO and RPO targets and validate through testing and failover exercises
• Standardize AWS service usage across compute, networking, identity, storage, and messaging
• Guide event-driven and API-based architecture patterns
• Evaluate managed vs self-managed services with a long-term total cost perspective
• Lead architectural direction with external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with internal standards
• Define and implement observability architecture across logging, metrics, tracing, and security signals
• Establish architecture governance including review processes, decision frameworks, and data protection standards
• Define data classification, handling, and tenant-aware data boundaries
• Partner with security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure audit readiness
• Evolve AWS organization structure including account strategy, OU design, and policy enforcement
• Design architecture foundations to support AI capabilities including retrieval systems, inference, and agent-driven workflows
• Ensure AI workloads align with tenant isolation, privacy, and governance requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture with principal-level ownership on AWS

• Proven experience defining and owning target-state architecture for complex platforms

• Deep expertise across AWS core services including compute, networking, identity, data, and security

• Strong experience designing multi-tenant architectures and isolation strategies

• Proven ability to design resilient, highly available, multi-region systems

• Strong knowledge of cloud security, encryption, IAM, and data protection practices

• Experience establishing architectural governance and decision-making frameworks

• Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with near-term delivery needs

• Experience scaling platforms toward enterprise or regulated environments

• Background in high-growth environments transitioning to enterprise scale Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting AI-enabled or data-intensive platforms

• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected frameworks and enterprise reference architectures

• Experience working with external partners while maintaining architectural governance Our Ideal Teammate Is Someone Who:

• Is proactive and accountable

• Thinks strategically and executes consistently

• Communicates with clarity and confidence

• Brings a positive, growth-oriented mindset

• Is highly organized and dependable

• Embraces learning and feedback

• Cares deeply about doing great work Location: Remote