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 Qualifications • 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 Apply To This Job