Principal Cloud Architect- Customer Intelligence

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About the job

We are looking for a knowledgeable and passionate architect who appreciates solving complex and strategic challenges across a diverse set of technologies. They will have the opportunity to envision our future state and the responsibility to educate our organization where we are going and why. A successful architect will serve as both the compass and the conscience for the Customer Intelligence organization.

As a Principal Cloud Architect- Customer Intelligence, you will:

• 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 their recommendations, promote understanding of their design decisions, provide oversight and guidance throughout the planning and execution of their vision
• Plans evolutionary paths for SAS software architectures, incorporating dependent third-party architectural changes and new technology adoption
• Creates, maintains, and organizes detailed documentation and visualizations about technical designs with supporting justification for architectural and design choices.
• Influences, arbitrates, and/or enforces design decisions that have a broad impact across projects, teams, and products.
• Provides technical guidance on methodologies, frameworks, and best practices to developers to encourage the flow of information and promote understanding among product teams.
• Enforces 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.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

• 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.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Decision Making - You will be trusted to make recommendations that materially affect the success of our offerings.
• Innovation - You must be creative and devise unique solutions to complex problems that provide competitive advantage for our products.
• Technology Savvy - You must keep apprised of emerging industry trends and technology to consistently recommend modern approaches to our challenges.
• Communication - Great ideas only matter if you can persuade others to implement your recommendations.

Highlights include…

• 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).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your 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.

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture - it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.