Principal Architect — Cloud, Agentic AI & Data Engineering
Field
Detail
Job Title
Principal Architect — Cloud, Agentic AI & Data Engineering
Function / Practice
Digital, Data & AI — Technology & Solutions
Reports To
Head of Architecture / Practice Head — Digital & AI
Experience
15+ years in software, data and cloud engineering, including 5+ years in an architect capacity
Location
Hyderabad / Bengaluru / Pune (Hybrid), with travel to client sites as required
Employment Type
Full time, Permanent
Grade / Band
Principal Architect
ROLE SUMMARY
Cyient is looking for a Principal Architect who can operate at the intersection of cloud platform engineering, agentic AI and modern data engineering — and who is equally comfortable in front of a customer as in a design review.
This is a hands-on, customer-facing architecture role. You will own end-to-end solution architecture for strategic engagements, shape winning proposals and RFP responses, build demos and proofs of concept alongside the delivery team, and set the technical direction that engineering teams execute against.



You will also mentor architects and senior engineers, and partner with fellow architects across practices to drive reusable assets, accelerators and an active innovation agenda.
Success in this role looks like architecture decisions that survive production, customers who ask for you by name, proposals that convert, and a bench of engineers who are measurably stronger because you invested in them.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Solution & Cloud Architecture
Own end-to-end architecture for large, multi-workstream programs spanning cloud infrastructure, data platforms and AI services.
Design cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure (or AWS ) covering compute, networking, identity, integration, observability, cost management and security.
Define the non-functional architecture — scalability, resilience, latency, availability, disaster recovery and multi-tenancy — and hold designs accountable to it.
Establish architectur

📌 Principal Architect — Cloud, Agentic AI (Hyderabad)
🏢 Cyient
📍 Hyderabad