Principal Cloud Architect- Hybrid , NY

Principal Cloud Architect
- Hybrid New York, NY

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- Hybrid New York, NY role at Motion Recruitment.

As the Principal Cloud Architect, you’ll be the person ultimately accountable for the architecture, reliability, and long-term viability of both the company’s web platform and the PowerPoint add-in.

You’ll own the hard calls on distributed systems, hybrid networking between customer on‑prem and AWS, and the future‑state patterns required to satisfy the security and compliance demands of global financial institutions.

The company is located in New York, NY and will be 4 days onsite a week.

• Architect, validate, and refine the web app and PowerPoint add-in for high‑scale enterprise use.
• Build and govern hybrid connectivity patterns between customer data centers and AWS (Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, Private Link).
• Tear apart existing microservices and deployment patterns and rebuild what doesn’t meet enterprise standards.
• Make the hard trade‑off calls around languages, messaging, data movement, and integration.
• Define future‑state architectures that satisfy strict security, compliance, and scalability constraints in the financial sector.
• Own and maintain technical roadmaps for the company’s modular, cloud‑native architecture direction.
• Align engineering, product, and leadership on architectural priorities and constraints.
• Mentor engineers and instill architectural discipline across teams.
• Present architecture decisions to enterprise IT/security stakeholders and stand behind them.

• 10+ years across software development, cloud engineering, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated success designing and delivering distributed or cloud‑native systems at scale (AWS strongly preferred).
• Experience leading cloud transformations or building hybrid integrations from scratch.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security boundaries, and data isolation models.
• Strong communicator capable of explaining complex architectural reasoning to executives, customers, and engineers without hand‑wav­ing.
• Proven ability to produce real architecture artifacts, run design reviews, and drive multi‑team engineering initiatives to completion.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis now and in the future. This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.