Senior Technical Architect-  Remote or Hybrid | Cary, NC 

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About the job  

SAS Managed Cloud Services is seeking a Senior Technical Architect with expertise in SAS Viya and cloud modernization to serve as the dedicated architect to a key customer. In this role, you will be the primary technical authority guiding delivery and shaping the roadmap for migration, modernization, and compliance of critical analytic workloads to SAS Managed Cloud Services. Specifically, supporting this customer’s transition from on-premises to Azure. 

You will be responsible for the end-to-end design, evaluation, and continual improvement of hosting best practices that balance application reliability, compliance (NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, FERPA), cost efficiency, and delivery speed. Working alongside the project team, you will guide modernization projects, oversee technical migrations, and advocate for the customer within SAS to support their regulatory, business, and innovation goals. 

 As a Senior Technical Architect, you will:  

• Serve as the dedicated technical architect for all customer modernization initiatives, including Viya 4 solution mapping, Azure migration planning, and compliance assurance. 

• Act as a product and solution expert for SAS Viya and related SAS platforms, providing thought leadership to bridge new R&D advancements into managed application services for government analytics workloads. 

• Design, document, and maintain scalable, resilient, and compliant hosting architectures across SAS datacenters, Azure, and future Azure Government environments. 

• Develop technical solutions to accelerate delivery cycles.  Provide input and direction on leveraging automation, standardized deployment models, and advanced cloud capabilities (AKS, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, Data Platforms). 

• Lead architectural reviews and technical risk assessments to keep alignment with NIST 800-53, HIPAA, CJIS, FERPA, and other data protection requirements. 

• Collaborate cross-functionally with SAS R&D, Cloud & Information Services, and Security to resolve technical blockers and support ongoing environment migration and integration. 

• Drive platform modernization by developing cloud-native, scalable resource strategies for both stateful and stateless services, ensuring efficient use of cloud resources and operational excellence. 

• Communicate actionable recommendations regarding security, reliability, operational performance, and cost optimization to both SAS and customer stakeholders. 

• Support delivery and migration scheduling, production readiness, and post-migration technical validation for major program workstreams. 

• Stay current with SAS Managed Cloud Services architecture standards, Azure platform advancements, and compliance frameworks 
• Provide technical leadership and direction to other technical resources and engineers.
• 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  

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, engineering or similar. 

• 8+ years of technical architecture experience. 

• Excellent problem solving, organizational, decision-making written, oral and interpersonal skills  

• Ability to conceptualize client needs and translate into specific solutions 

• Advanced negotiation skills to manage customer expectations  

• Experience architecting for public cloud delivery.  Azure preferred. 

• Experience with microservices based applications. 

• Experience architecting for stateless and stateful services. 

• Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes. 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines. 

• Produce and communicate design documentation (architecture diagrams, non-functional requirements, and detailed solution architecture) 

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English. 

• Travel: as business requirements dictate. 
• Equivalant 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  
• Experience with SAS 9  
• Experience with Azure Well-Architected practices or other enterprise architecture frameworks 

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.

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Additional Information 

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