Principal Product Architect

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Architect based in United States. This is a senior architecture leadership role focused on designing scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS products across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. You will define technology strategy and architectural direction for complex products while partnering closely with product management and engineering leadership. The role has a strong emphasis on cloud-native, serverless, microservices, and event-driven architectures, particularly within AWS environments. You will help modernize products, guide engineering teams, and ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and operational standards. The position offers significant influence over technology roadmaps, architecture governance, and adoption of emerging technologies such as AI/ML. Success requires deep technical expertise combined with strong communication, strategic thinking, and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the architectural vision and technology strategy for scalable, secure, and resilient SaaS products.
• Architect and guide the implementation of cloud-native solutions across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployment models, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Design architectures that support elasticity, high availability, disaster recovery, security, data retention, and operational resilience.
• Partner with Product Management to align product roadmaps and release plans with the broader technology strategy and target-state architecture.
• Maintain comprehensive product technology roadmaps, technical scorecards, technical-debt inventories, and alignment with architecture, security, and operational standards.
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and architectural guidance to product engineering teams while promoting innovation and continuous learning.
• Champion serverless, microservices, event-driven, and other cloud-native design patterns for highly scalable SaaS products.
• Ensure solutions align with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and appropriate cloud cost-management and optimization practices.
• Lead architecture assessments, proofs of concept, design reviews, and the creation of living architecture artifacts throughout the governance lifecycle.
• Collaborate with product management, engineering, security, operations, technical architects, clients, and other stakeholders to translate business and technical needs into actionable architecture designs.
• Support new products and releases by establishing appropriate cloud-native, serverless, and microservice architecture models.
• Ensure product designs meet applicable security, privacy, compliance, and operational requirements, including relevant healthcare standards.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies, including AI/ML, serverless computing, microservices, and modern cloud architectures.
• Monitor industry trends and incorporate relevant innovations into long-term product and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience in application or solution architecture.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, cloud-native application design, and deployment.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and managing large-scale, complex serverless SaaS solutions on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• 5+ years of experience with modern engineering practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and DevOps.
• Strong expertise in AWS services, cloud architecture principles, scalability, availability, security, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Advanced proficiency in cloud-native serverless application design, microservices architecture, and event-driven design patterns.
• Deep understanding of multi-region and multi-tenant SaaS architectures and cloud service design patterns.
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools, including AWS CloudWatch.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management models across on-premises and public cloud environments.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and regulations such as HITRUST, HIP