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Associate Director, Lead Cloud Architect

Princeton - NJ - USFull-time$169k–$225k2026-09-25 → 2026-10-24

Core

Lead Cloud Architect responsible for architecting, developing, and automating critical AWS Cloud Platform components and application delivery pipelines with a product mindset.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Cloud Architect

Builds

AWS Landing Zone, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native application architectures, and developer toolchains

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps / Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AWS Cloud expertise, Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation), Python, NodeJS, GitHub/GitOps, SecDevOps, CI/CD architecture, FinOps, Generative AI integration

Preferred skills

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Technologies

AWS (Control Tower, Organizations, Transit Gateway, Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront), GitHub Actions, OPA, Python, NodeJS

Responsibilities

Design and build AWS Landing Zone architecture; Author enterprise-grade IaC modules; Architect scalable cloud-native applications; Embed security automation in CI/CD pipelines; Integrate AI/ML tools into SDLC; Optimize AWS spend; Establish technical standards and lead architecture reviews

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities