[Hiring] Principal Architect @CI&T

Role Description

We are tech transformation specialists, uniting human expertise with AI to create scalable tech solutions. With over 8,000 CI&Ters around the world, we’ve built partnerships with more than 1,000 clients during our 30 years of history. Artificial Intelligence is our reality.

Spearhead the development of complex, scalable systems while navigating intricate stakeholder landscapes. Responsible for defining the technological vision for mission-critical products, balancing technical debt with business velocity, and ensuring the architecture supports both business growth and the diplomatic alignment required in high-stakes client environments.

• Architecture & Stakeholder Leadership: Design and oversee distributed systems architectures, focusing on resilience, low latency, and global scalability. Act as the strategic bridge between client demands and technical feasibility, ensuring engineering efforts translate into immediate business value.
• Strategic Client Management: Possess the political savvy necessary to manage the expectations of diverse partners, transforming vague requirements or organizational pressures into structured, deliverable technical roadmaps.
• Product Vision & Analysis: Translate complex financial models and business needs into elegant technical solutions, focusing on systems that support real-time data processing and high-complexity analysis for enterprise-level decision making.
• Automation & Resilience: Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, ensuring the agility clients demand with the security and stability required within Linux/AWS environments.
• Diplomatic Mentorship: Raise the team’s technical bar not only in code but in interpersonal communication, coaching engineers on how to present technical trade-offs persuasively to non-technical business leaders.

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Owner-centric vision to drive product lifecycles from MVP to production scale, maintaining a sharp focus on Customer Success and long-term product viability.
• Political Savvy & Analytical Prowess: Ability to navigate organizational structures, identify key decision-makers, and apply complex mathematical logic to solve high-stakes engineering challenges.
• Operational Excellence: Mastery of building systems that reduce operational friction, directly improving the end-client's perception of efficiency, stability, and reliability.

Requirements

• Proven Track Record: Solid experience in technical leadership roles with a documented history of direct crisis management and technical negotiations with key clients.
• Backend Mastery: Advanced expertise in high-performance programming languages and ecosystems, focusing on building systems robust enough to withstand rigorous audits and compliance reviews.
• Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps: Deep proficiency in AWS services (Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, S3), with a focus on cost transparency and resource optimization to justify infrastructure investments to stakeholders.
• Technical Diplomacy: Proven ability in strategic negotiation and high-level communication, capable of delivering constructive "nos" while proposing alternative solutions that preserve and strengthen client relationships.
• DevSecOps Culture: Hands-on experience with containerization, Linux environments (Debian/Ubuntu), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure high-availability and security.

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance
• Meal and food allowance
• Childcare assistance
• Extended paternity leave
• Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass
• Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR)
• Life insurance
• Continuous learning platform (CI&T University)
• Discount club
• Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
• Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
• Partnerships with online learning platforms
• Language learning platform
• And many more!

More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras