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We are seeking a Principal Architect / Distinguished Engineer to lead the strategic technical vision and architecture for our cloud platform’s elasticity, scalability, and resilience at Teradata. This role will serve with technical authority, driving innovation, influencing technology decisions across the organization, and ensuring our platform can dynamically scale to meet evolving product requirements.
Job Responsibility:
Define and evolve the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, self-optimizing cloud platform
Develop frameworks and systems that support real-time autoscaling, predictive scaling, capacity forecasting, and cost-aware elasticity
Maintain a deep understanding of cloud provider offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and relevant industry tooling, including their performance characteristics, constraints, and roadmap directions
Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and open-source projects, identifying opportunities and gaps relative to our needs
Influence long-term engineering strategy, collaborating with product, operations, and security teams to align architectural decisions with business goals
Mentor senior technical leaders and engineering teams
drive engineering excellence and establish best practices for scalable cloud architecture
Establish patterns for distributed systems that optimize workload placement, resource utilization, reliability, and failure recovery
Focus on cost efficiency by designing elasticity mechanisms that reduce waste without compromising performance or customer experience
Lead the creation of reference implementations, proofs-of-concept, and performance experiments to validate design decisions
Investigate platform constraints and collaborate with teams to design alternatives or mitigations
Define guardrails, standards, and tooling that ensure elasticity features are observable, testable, and production-ready
Requirements:
10+ years in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering
Proven track record architecting high-scale, elastic, multi-region or multi-cloud systems
Deep understanding of cloud provider elasticity primitives, orchestration systems (Kubernetes, serverless, autoscalers), and modern infrastructure technologies
Nice to have:
Experience with hybrid or edge-cloud architectures
Contributions to open-source cloud infrastructure projects
Prior Distinguished Engineer or Principal Engineer experience in a large-scale cloud-native organization