Technical Architect- Remote

Technical Architect - Remote US or Hybrid | Cary, NC

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About the job

SAS Managed Cloud Services (MCS) is seeking a Technical Architect with a passion for building a world-class customer experience by designing and standardizing the developer, product support, and operator toolchain for SAS Viya workloads on Azure and AWS. You will focus on empowering project and operations teams through CI/CD automation, data-movement pipelines, observability, and well-documented SDKs in order to enable teams to ship, monitor, and scale SAS workloads with confidence and consistency.

In this role, you will lead the design and integration of platform toolchains that support modern cloud-native operations and software development practices. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to keep our cloud services easy to consume, ultimately elevating the customer and developer experience.

As a Technical Architect, you will:

• Design, implement, and optimize the end-to-end toolchain (including CI/CD pipelines, data-movement processes, observability tooling, and SDKs) that powers development, deployment, and operation of SAS solutions in Azure and AWS.
• Lead initiatives to simplify onboarding, streamline deployments, and enhance self-service capabilities for internal and external users.
• Build resilient frameworks that enable rapid, safe releases and real-time monitoring, ensuring robust performance and quick recovery from failures.
• Work with product, engineering, and operations to align platform capabilities with customer and market needs, driving continuous improvement in service delivery.
• Produce clear architectural diagrams, playbooks, and technical documentation to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.
• Promote cost optimization, security best practices, and operational automation throughout the toolchain lifecycle.
• Continuously evaluate emerging cloud and DevOps technologies, integrating best-of-breed solutions into our platform to maintain a leading edge.
• Be encouraged to participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical architecture, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Experience designing and managing developer/operator toolchains, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices-based applications.
• Proficiency in scripting, automation, and SDK/API development.
• Demonstrated ability to produce technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and solution design documents.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Demonstrated leader in architecture topics (publishes articles, leads demand generation activities, and speaks at technical tracks for conferences and events
• Strong facilitation and communications skills
• Good knowledge of common technical environment technologies
• Experience with SAS Viya, analytics platforms, or large-scale data processing environments.
• Familiarity with Agile development and Scrum Product Owner practices.
• Background in customer success, developer relations, or platform enablement.

World-class benefits

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include:
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

You are welcome here.

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Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.

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