Principal Cloud Architect, Google Cloud

About Egen: Egen is a premier, internationally recognized cloud technology pioneer, data engineering innovator, and enterprise digital transformation leader on an absolute mission to help organizations drive real-world action and business impact through the power of data and insights. By bringing together top-tier technical talent and pairing them with the industry’s most advanced technology platforms—including Google Cloud and Salesforce—Egen builds highly automated, resilient software ecosystems that modernize infrastructure for clients worldwide. Driven by an entrepreneurial, data-first mindset and a shared culture of continuous learning, the organization stands as a world-class workspace where elite engineers apply their craft to envision what is next for global cloud computing. Egen provides its architects with a high-ownership remote canvas to solve tough technical bottlenecks, break open complex platform limitations, and deliver fast, effective results safely across distributed multi-cloud footprints.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, systems-minded Principal Cloud Architect, Google Cloud to lead our core centralized Engineering and Product Management division in a full-time remote capacity within the United States. In this high-stakes, executive-tier individual contributor seat, you will act as the trusted primary technical advisor to engineering squads, customer executives, and corporate leadership cells, translating complex multi-year technical roadmaps into clear business value. Shifting completely away from routine environment provisioning or passive infrastructure monitoring, you will claim true individual accountability for defining enterprise-wide cloud adoption, migration, and application modernization strategies. This position requires an industry-recognized cloud champion with 5–10 years of formal architecture leadership background who structures hybrid multi-cloud systems fluidly, programs automated security guardrails smoothly under high-load parameters, and elevates Egen’s global brand through whitepapers and industry conference speaking engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Multi-Year Enterprise Strategy Definition: Architect, implement, and govern the multi-year, company-wide migration and cloud adoption strategy, maintaining a premier focus on Google Cloud services alongside strategic interoperability with AWS platforms.
• Scalable Infrastructure as Code Governance: Write, review, and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural reference models, and reusable modular blocks natively utilizing **DevOps** methodologies built around GitOps and **Terraform** automation.
• Strict DevSecOps and Compliance Enforcement: Establish and audit an uncompromised cloud security posture across all staging and production spaces natively using Cybersecurity parameters to satisfy stringent regulatory metrics including GDPR, HIPAA, and data residency laws.
• High-Load Google Cloud Solution Engineering: Lead the hands-on engineering, capacity planning, and live deployment of massive distributed clusters leveraging Google Cloud services, explicitly covering GKE, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Spanner.
• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Integration Design: Design secure, low-latency cross-platform connection patterns, implementing federated identity models and centralized key management systems to ensure consistent IAM enforcement across GCP and AWS environments.
• Emerging GenAI and Serverless Prototyping: Lead cutting-edge Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies, designing the baseline architecture for Generative AI utilities (Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock) and serverless workflows.
• Automated Cost Optimization Guardrails: Formulate and deploy automated cost tracking and financial guardrails across multi-cloud spaces, ensuring maximum corporate ROI and proactive cloud spend containment.
• Engineering Talent Mentorship and Brand Elevation: Coach, mentor, and grow a dedicated group of Senior and Lead Cloud Engineers, while actively authoring technical engineering blogs and representing Egen as an expert speaker at industry meetups.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of verified professional history running advanced cloud architecture, principal infrastructure engineering, enterprise digital transformation management, or global technology consulting.
• Master-level technical command of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configurations, including deep expertise managing advanced cloud networking topologies, IAM policies, and system observability matrixes.
• Expert-tier software proficiency mapping multi-cloud modules, declarative state environments, and serverless clusters natively utilizing **DevOps** code frameworks and **Terraform** engines.
• Production-tested experience configuring identity federation, row-level data access filters, and multi-tier network firewalls natively leveraging Cybersecurity defensive frameworks.
• Deep architectural history managing secondary public cloud ecosystems, showcasing hands-on experience deploying workloads across Amazon Web Services (AWS explicitly covering EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and EKS).
• Hands-on scripting and application development fluency utilizing at least one modern object-oriented or functional language, preferably Python or Java.
• Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation communication traits in fluent English, with proven technical authority to interface seamlessly with corporate customer executives.
• Accredited Professional Credentials: Possession of an active Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification, paired ideally with a professional/expert-level certification from AWS or Azure.
• Location Context: Parameters open exclusively to qualified cloud architects based permanently and resident within the **United States** to execute architecture and leadership duties under a 100% remote layout.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior commercial architecture history leading large-scale cloud-to-cloud data migration tracks inside an enterprise SaaS platform, financial tech corporation, or digital analytics enterprise.
• Familiarity with distributed data streaming frameworks, vector database structures, or Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning patterns inside Vertex AI.
• An outcome-driven personal philosophy that thrives on solving tough, open-ended problems, values engineering ownership, and maintains a passion for building continuous integration pipelines.

What We Offer

• High-Yield U.S. Executive Salary: An attractive full-time base salary scale structured transparently between $207,100 – $243,691 USD per year, calibrated precisely to evaluate and reward your cloud architecture authority, code craft, and strategic leadership velocity.
• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct, shape, and code-engineer the foundational multi-cloud architectures and data pipelines power-routing next-generation platforms for fortune-scale clients.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters providing an elite digital workplace, complete scheduling trust, and zero physical geographic office commuting friction across the United States.
• Immediate eligibility to access comprehensive corporate protection benefits, including world-class Health Insurance plans and sick leave allocations.
• Access to an outstanding investment retirement safety net, featuring full employer company matching within our corporate **401(k)** program.
• Generous personal and family calibration perks, including extensive Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO), paid public holidays, comprehensive parental leave, bereavement protection, and attractive Employee Referral Bonuses.