Platform Architect

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to define and drive the technical vision for a modern enterprise platform supporting a portfolio of cloud-based products and services for one of our healthcare clients. This individual will play a key role in establishing architectural standards, guiding platform strategy, and enabling engineering teams to build scalable, secure, and highly available applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture of enterprise platform capabilities that support multiple products and engineering teams.
• Establish technical standards, reference architectures, and best practices that drive consistency, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Design cloud-native solutions leveraging microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Operations teams to align platform strategy with business objectives.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance on major engineering initiatives.
• Design reusable platform services, developer tooling, frameworks, and integrations that accelerate software delivery.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements that enhance engineering productivity and operational effectiveness.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives and support adoption of cloud-native technologies and engineering best practices.
• Promote observability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across the technology organization.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop architecture documentation, technical roadmaps, and implementation guidance for engineering teams.
• Assess opportunities for AI-assisted engineering and AI-enabled platform capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of software engineering, architecture, or platform engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms.
• Deep expertise in:
• Microservices
• Distributed Systems
• Event-Driven Architectures
• API Design & Integration
• Enterprise Platform Architecture
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized applications, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience designing highly scalable, secure, resilient, and observable systems.
• Knowledge of identity management, authentication, authorization, and secure application design.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and establishing technical standards.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience developing solutions using Java, C#, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar modern technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within healthcare technology or SaaS organizations.
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and healthcare data ecosystems.
• Experience with event-streaming technologies and service mesh architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native networking and observability platforms.
• Experience designing enterprise data platforms and data-driven architectures.
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled platform capabilities and LLM-based solutions.
• Experience leading platform modernization, engineering transformation, or large-scale cloud migration initiatives.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required.
• 8-10+ Years of Software Engineering Experience.
• Experience Designing Enterprise-Scale Platforms.
• Event-Driven Architecture.
• CI/CD.
• Developer Platforms & Tooling.
• Shared Services Architecture.
• Observability.
• Reliability Engineering.
• Scalability & Performance Optimization.
• Identity & Access Management (IAM).
• Secure Design Principles.
• Experience Leading Technical Governance.
• Cross-Functional Leadership.
• Strategic Technology Roadmaps.
• Engineering Standards & Best Practices.
• Architecture Documentation.
• Technical Mentorship.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Strong Communication & Presentation Skills.
• Experience Evaluating Emerging Technologies.
• Experience with AI-Enabled Platform Capabilities.