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# Principal Cloud Architect- Customer Intelligence

- **Company:** Sas Institute Inc.
- **Location:** Cary, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Data Structures, SAS (Software), Software Engineering, Web Applications, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Functional Programming, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers-sas.icims.com/jobs/42076/principal-cloud-architect--customer-intelligence/job?hub=9&in_iframe=1

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

We're a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.

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.


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