Principal Cloud Enterprise Architect

About the position

At Oura, our mission is to empower every person to own their inner potential. With our award-winning Oura Ring and app, we help over 2.5 million people turn insights about sleep, activity, and readiness into healthier, more balanced lives. We believe that starts from within - by creating a culture where our team feels supported, included, and inspired to do their best work. Our values guide how we show up for each other and our community every day. We have offices in San Francisco and San Diego, with informal coworking meetups in other cities like Boston and New York for those who prefer in-person connection. We're looking for a Principal Cloud Enterprise Architect to lead the architectural strategy for Oura's internal business systems and enterprise technology-spanning SaaS platforms, cloud services, and integration infrastructure used by internal teams (not our consumer-facing product). This is a senior individual contributor with light team leadership responsibilities role that combines strategic vision with hands-on technical expertise. This role reflects a modern, adaptive approach to enterprise architecture-focused on agility, business alignment, and measurable outcomes. Rather than traditional systems architecture, you'll focus on scalable, modular, and resilient patterns that evolve with the needs of a fast-growing organization. You'll align technology decisions with enterprise-wide strategy, helping Oura scale effectively while maintaining security, compliance, and architectural integrity. You'll bring deep experience in cloud-native architecture and enterprise systems design, collaborating across IT, Security, Data, and Engineering to ensure business systems architecture supports internal operations and scales with our enterprise needs.

Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise architecture vision and roadmap across Oura's IT and business systems, ensuring long-term scalability, agility, and security.
• Establish and champion modern architecture patterns (microservices, continuous delivery, AI-driven system, auto-scalable infrastructure, event-driven) that guide design and integration across platforms.
• Design and prototype AWS-based or iPaaS services such as secure data pipelines, authentication flows, and integrations that connect internal platforms and external SaaS systems.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and governance, supporting compliance, audit readiness, and operational excellence.
• Lead technical design reviews and collaborate cross-functionally with IT, Security, Engineering, and Data to align architecture decisions with business goals.
• Advise on strategic technology investments, contributing to platform evaluations, modernization roadmaps, and integration strategies.
• Champion modern DevOps and observability practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and monitoring with tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry.