Lead Architect, Cloud Platform

About Us

At Teradata, we empower individuals with superior information. Our commitment is to deliver the most comprehensive cloud analytics and data platform for AI, enabling businesses to make confident decisions and enhancing customer experiences. Leading companies across various industries trust Teradata for improved performance and data integration.

Your Role

We are in search of a Lead Architect / Distinguished Engineer to spearhead the technical vision and architecture for our cloud platform, focusing on elasticity, scalability, and resilience. This pivotal position commands technical authority to drive innovation and guide organizational technology decisions, ensuring our platform adapts dynamically to meet evolving product demands.

The ideal candidate is an authority in cloud elasticity patterns, multi-cloud functionalities, and modern infrastructure architectures, possessing a thorough understanding of current market offerings and the limitations of cloud services.

The role requires a robust grasp of data platform architecture, particularly regarding scalability trade-offs. As our core platform progresses towards enhanced elastic computing, we aim to unlock greater scalability and elasticity. The candidate will evaluate architectural constraints, suggest strategic advances, and lead efforts to refine system elasticity through data-driven modifications.

Key Responsibilities

Craft and refine the architectural framework for a highly elastic, self-optimizing cloud platform.

Design frameworks supporting real-time autoscaling, predictive scaling, capacity forecasting, and cost-efficient elasticity.

Maintain in-depth knowledge of cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their offerings, including performance metrics and constraints.

Assess emerging technologies and solutions while identifying opportunities that align with our objectives.

Influence long-term engineering strategies, working closely with product, operations, and security teams to synchronize architectural decisions with business goals.

Guide and mentor senior technical leaders and engineering teams, promoting engineering excellence and best practices for cloud architecture.

Establish patterns for distributed systems to optimize resource utilization, reliability, and recovery from failures.

Focus on designing elasticity mechanisms that minimize resource wastage while preserving performance and customer experience.

Lead initiatives to create reference implementations and performance experiments to validate architectural choices.

Investigate platform constraints and collaborate with teams to devise alternatives or mitigation strategies.

Set standards and tools to ensure that elasticity features are observable, testable, and ready for production.

Who You Collaborate With

You will work alongside Product Management and platform operations teams to ensure scalable capabilities are smoothly integrated with deployment pipelines and monitoring tools.

What Makes You Stand Out

Over 10 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.

A proven history of architecting elastic, high-scale systems across multiple regions or clouds.

In-depth knowledge of cloud service elasticity primitives and orchestration systems (Kubernetes, serverless, etc.).

Your Valuable Contributions

Expertise in hybrid and edge-cloud architectures.

Involvement in open-source cloud infrastructure projects.

Previous experience as a Distinguished or Principal Engineer in a cloud-native organization.

Why You Will Enjoy Working at Teradata

We foster a people-first culture because our people are fundamental to our success. With a flexible work model, we empower our team members to choose how, when, and where they work. We are committed to well-being and cultivating an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity in all forms.

Pay Rate: $217,300 - $271,600 - $325,900 Annually

Your starting pay will depend on geographic location, internal equity, job-related skills, and experience. This role is eligible for one of our annual incentive plans, tied to company financial performance and individual contribution.

Employees in this position also gain access to our comprehensive benefits, including healthcare and retirement savings plans, with details to be provided during the hiring process.