Staff / Principal Systems Architect & Cloud Engineer

Architecting High-Scale
Data Platforms, Cloud & AI

I'm Marland Moore. With years of technical leadership, I build high-throughput data platforms, unlock your data with AI, lead cloud modernization teams and projects, and build production AI & agent architectures.

20+ Yrs
Systems Architecture & Leadership
Billions
Records Migrated (NYS Tax & Finance)
AI
Engineering using AI agents as coding team with an engineering team
Production
Agentic AI and MCP implemented on Snowflake and AWS
Profile & Background

Bridging Deep Relational Foundations with Modern Cloud & AI Frontiers

I am a hands-on Principal Systems Architect and Engineering Leader with over two decades of experience spanning mission-critical enterprise environments. My career has centered on solving high-stakes architectural challenges: migrating multi-billion record operational stores without service interruption, eliminating query latency in enterprise analytical lakes, and decoupling complex monolithic systems into resilient cloud-native topologies.

What makes my perspective unique is a rare duality: deep, battle-tested mastery of legacy relational engines (IBM DB2, Oracle Exadata, SQL Server) combined with active, state-of-the-art expertise in Snowflake, modern AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure, and autonomous AI architectures.

Zero-Downtime Modernization

Safely decomposing legacy systems with strict data fidelity and continuous availability.

Cost-Disciplined Scale

Configuring compute clustering, partition keys, and caching to avoid runaway cloud bills.

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Marland Moore

Lead / Principal Systems Architect

Open to Principal Roles & Strategic Advisory
Primary Domain Data Platforms & Cloud Systems
Modern Cloud AWS & Microsoft Azure
Analytical Warehouse Snowflake, Databricks, dbt
AI Specialization MCP, Agentic RAG, Tooling
Location United States (Remote / Hybrid)
Core Architectural Pillars

Four Pillars of Modern Engineering Excellence

Comprehensive architectural leadership spanning large-scale data systems, modern cloud infrastructure, complex monolith refactoring, and state-of-the-art AI systems.

Pillar 01

Data Platform Architecture

Engineering high-throughput, cost-optimized data lakehouses and analytical warehouses. Eliminating query latency by tuning clustering keys, materialized views, and partition structures across transactional backends and modern analytics engines.

Snowflake warehouse sizing, cluster tuning & credit burn reduction
Modular dbt modeling, data quality tests & DAG orchestration
Streaming ETL & event pipelines with Apache Kafka, Flink & Iceberg
Sub-second executive dashboards in Power BI DAX & Tableau
Snowflake Databricks dbt Core PostgreSQL Apache Iceberg
Pillar 02

Cloud Systems Engineering

Designing reliable, self-healing multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure. Automated provisioning via Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade Zero-Trust identity integration.

Production Terraform modules, state management & IaC governance
Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) cluster architecture, autoscaling & ingress
Serverless microservices (Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloudflare)
Enterprise Okta IAM, SAML/OIDC federation & Zero-Trust security
AWS & Azure Terraform Kubernetes Okta IAM Docker
Pillar 03

Application Modernization

Untangling monolithic enterprise backends into decoupled, event-driven microservices. Migrating decades of transactional data from legacy IBM DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server databases into resilient modern services with zero downtime.

Strangler fig pattern & monolith-to-microservices migration
Legacy database migration strategies for DB2, Oracle Exadata & Sybase
Event-driven domain decoupling with Apache Kafka & AWS EventBridge
High-performance RESTful APIs, GraphQL & gRPC service interfaces
IBM DB2 Oracle Microservices EventBridge Node/TypeScript
Pillar 04

AI Architecture & Agentic Systems

Building production-grade autonomous agent workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and enterprise RAG systems. Implementing evaluation pipelines, token cost guardrails, and secure sandboxed tool execution.

Autonomous agent swarms with LangGraph, AutoGen & CrewAI
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server development & tool calling
Vector search & Hybrid RAG with pgvector, Qdrant & GraphRAG
Enterprise LLM governance, safety guardrails & latency optimization
MCP Protocols LangGraph pgvector Agentic RAG Python
Proven Track Record

Selected Architectural Milestones

01

Multi-Billion Record Database Modernization

Public Sector • NY State Dept of Tax & Finance

Architected and led the database modernization and massive-scale ELT pipeline design for the New York State Department of Taxation & Finance. Migrated over two decades of highly sensitive historical records encompassing billions of rows from legacy IBM DB2 into modernized relational architectures—achieving zero data loss, strict compliance adherence, and uninterrupted ongoing operations.

IBM DB2 & Enterprise RDBMS High-Throughput ELT / ETL Zero-Downtime Cutover Data Integrity Verification
02

Unified Snowflake Lakehouse & Microservices Integration

Fortune 500 E-Commerce • La-Z-Boy / Joybird

Spearheaded enterprise data architecture unifying disparate production systems across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server into a high-performance Snowflake analytics platform. Modeled complex relational data with dbt, tuned virtual warehouse concurrency, and established real-time API integrations that reduced executive dashboard latency from minutes to under 2 seconds.

Snowflake Optimization dbt Data Modeling Heterogeneous OLTP Sync Power BI & Executive BI
03

Autonomous AI Agents & Model Context Protocol (MCP) Workflows

AI Systems Architecture • Production Tool Calling

Designed resilient agentic workflows integrating custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with enterprise tooling. Orchestrated multi-step reasoning swarms using LangGraph, incorporating semantic search with pgvector and Qdrant, dynamic memory injection, and strict input/output guardrails to reliably execute engineering and analytical automation.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) LangGraph & Agent Swarms pgvector & Semantic RAG Guardrails & Cost Optimization
04

Enterprise Cloud Security & Okta Zero-Trust IAM Architecture

Security & Identity • Cloud Infrastructure

Implemented comprehensive Zero-Trust access and identity management frameworks using Okta, SAML 2.0, and OpenID Connect (OIDC). Unified access control across hybrid cloud footprints, established automated role-based access governance (RBAC), and integrated security telemetry with centralized SIEM logging.

Okta Identity Governance SAML / OIDC Federation AWS & Azure IAM Policies Zero-Trust Network Access
Technical Stack

Architectural Stack & Core Competencies

A comprehensive overview of technologies, frameworks, and methodologies deployed across two decades of high-scale systems engineering.

Data & Warehousing

Snowflake Databricks dbt Core PostgreSQL IBM DB2 Oracle Exadata SQL Server Apache Iceberg Apache Kafka

Cloud & DevOps

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Terraform / IaC Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) Docker Containers AWS Lambda GitHub Actions CI/CD Datadog

AI & Agentic Systems

MCP (Model Context Protocol) LangGraph & Swarms Agentic RAG / GraphRAG pgvector Qdrant Vector DB LLM Tool Calling Prompt Engineering & Evals

Application Engineering

TypeScript & JavaScript Node.js Express / Nest Python (FastAPI, PySpark) RESTful API Design GraphQL gRPC Microservices Redis In-Memory Cache

Security & Governance

Okta Identity Cloud OAuth 2.0 / OIDC SAML 2.0 SSO Zero-Trust Security RBAC & ABAC Data Lineage & Governance

Architecture Leadership

Architecture Review Boards RFCs & System Design Engineering Mentorship Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Disaster Recovery (DR) FinOps & Cost Governance
Available for Principal Roles & Advisory

Let's Connect & Collaborate

Whether you are exploring high-scale Data Platform modernization, architecting next-generation Cloud infrastructure, evaluating Agentic AI systems, or seeking seasoned architectural leadership—I'd welcome the conversation.