OneStream is looking for a Distinguished Cloud Architect to serve as our senior-most technical authority. In this role, you will define and drive the multi-year cloud architecture vision that enables our transformation to a fully SaaS, cloud-native platform, influencing engineering, product, and executive teams.
What You'll Do
- Define the multi-year cloud architecture strategy for OneStream’s transformation to a fully SaaS, cloud-native platform.
- Establish and maintain architectural principles, patterns, frameworks, and governance models for consistency, reliability, security, and scale.
- Evaluate and guide decisions on global infrastructure, compute layers, storage, networking, resiliency, multi-region deployment, and sovereign cloud support.
- Drive modernization of the platform, including containerization, microservices, distributed systems design, and cloud-native application architectures.
- Lead architectural design of core platform services, APIs, data layers, extensibility frameworks, and Marketplace infrastructure.
- Define and guide execution for foundational capabilities such as multi-tenancy, observability, security, event-driven workflows, and global high availability.
- Serve as the organization’s leading expert in Azure services, cloud infrastructure, AKS, compute/storage optimization, and enterprise cloud security.
- Architect scalable, reliable, cost-efficient cloud environments aligned with SaaS delivery and operational excellence.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering and DevOps on CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, governance, and cloud lifecycle management.
- Define performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability strategies for large-scale, mission-critical cloud workloads.
- Establish high-availability, disaster recovery, and resiliency patterns for OneStream’s global cloud platform.
- Ensure platform architecture anticipates future expansion, regulatory requirements, and customer scale.
- Partner with Security to embed secure-by-design principles, identity management, data protection, and compliance across all cloud services.
- Guide adoption of governance standards for cloud usage, resource provisioning, and operational controls.
- Define architectural guardrails and enforce consistency across engineering organizations.
- Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, product teams, and engineering directors.
- Lead architectural reviews, technology evaluations, and long-term planning across the organization.
- Mentor and develop senior engineers, principal engineers, and emerging architects.
- Represent OneStream’s cloud architecture vision internally and externally, when appropriate.
- Influence cloud operations strategy, monitoring frameworks, incident response patterns, and reliability engineering practices.
- Provide oversight and guidance on major outages, root cause analysis, and architectural improvements.
- Collaborate with Finance to model infrastructure costs, optimize cloud spend, and plan future investment.
What We're Looking For
- 15+ years of experience in software architecture, cloud engineering, or distributed systems leadership.
- Proven experience architecting large-scale enterprise SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
- Deep expertise in Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, container orchestration, distributed systems, and cloud networking.
- Expert knowledge of compute, storage, database technologies, scaling strategies, and operational engineering.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance frameworks, and identity management.
- Experience guiding multi-year modernization or platform migration initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive levels and lead across multiple engineering organizations.
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with finance/CPM platforms or complex enterprise ecosystems.
- Background designing extensibility frameworks, Marketplace solutions, or developer platform ecosystems.
- Experience with multi-region, sovereign cloud, regulated-industry deployments.
- Prior experience mentoring principal-level engineers and architects.
Technical Stack
- Azure
- Kubernetes/AKS
- Container orchestration
- Distributed systems
- Cloud networking
- Compute
- Storage
- Database technologies
Team & Environment
This role is an individual technical leader providing architectural direction and mentorship across engineering teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $210,000 - $262,500 + equity
- Vision, Medical, Dental, and Life insurance
- 401K and Retirement Plan
- Vacation Time and Paid Holidays
- Short & Long Term Disability coverage
- Professional Development opportunities
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates anywhere in the USA.
OneStream is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
