Innovation Platform Architect

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Thats why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customersand our customers customersto make better, more confident decisions. The worlds top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise. We are seeking a Principal Architect / Distinguished Engineer to lead the strategic technical vision and architecture for our cloud platforms elasticity, scalability, and resilience at Teradata. This role will serve with technical authority, driving innovation, influencing technology decisions across the organization, and ensuring our platform can dynamically scale to meet evolving product requirements.
The ideal candidate is an expert in cloud elasticity patterns, multicloud capabilities, modern infrastructure architectures and has a deep understanding of the current market landscape, including the strengths and limitations of public cloud providers, managed services, and opensource technologies.
The role combines distributed systems expertise with a deep understanding of cloud performance characteristics, around storage, networking, I/O, and compute resource behavior.
The role requires a deep understanding of data platform architecture and scalability tradeoffs. Teradata core platform is evolving with elastic compute, and our goal is to achieve greater elasticity by unlocking scalability in our environment. Ideal candidate will be able to assess these architectural constraints, propose strategic improvements, and lead efforts to enhance system elasticity through thoughtful, datadriven platform modifications. Define and evolve the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, selfoptimizing cloud platform.
Maintain a deep understanding of cloud provider offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and relevant industry tooling, including their performance characteristics, constraints, and roadmap directions.
Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and opensource projects, identifying opportunities and gaps relative to our needs.
Influence longterm engineering strategy, collaborating with product, operations, and security teams to align architectural decisions with business goals.
drive engineering excellence and establish best practices for scalable cloud architecture.
Focus on cost efficiency by designing elasticity mechanisms that reduce waste without compromising performance or customer experience.
Lead the creation of reference implementations, proofsofconcept, and performance experiments to validate design decisions.
Investigate platform constraints and collaborate with teams to design alternatives or mitigations.
You will partner with Product Management and platform operations teams to ensure scalability capabilities integrate seamlessly with deployment pipelines and monitoring systems.
10+ years in largescale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
~ Deep understanding of cloud provider elasticity primitives, orchestration systems (Kubernetes, serverless, autoscalers), and modern infrastructure technologies.

Experience with hybrid or edgecloud architectures.
Contributions to opensource cloud infrastructure projects.
We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We are an antiracist company committed to fostering an equitable environment that celebrates people of all identities.
Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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