Principal Product Architect

Responsibilities

• Architects and implements cloud-native SaaS products that perform at scale.
• Designs and manages the architecture of complex, cloud and hybrid products for elasticity, availability, and resiliency.
• Applies cloud-native design principles and employs best practices to ensure seamless integration of security, infrastructure, services, and applications in public cloud.
• Maintains a holistic product technology scorecard including a technical roadmap, technical debt inventory, and compliance to product security, architecture, and operational reference models.
• Provides technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring best practices in software design and development.
• Fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team.
• Champions the use of elastic, serverless cloud-native design concepts for highly scalable and resilient SaaS products, ensuring that products comply with AWS Well-Architected Framework and best practices.
• Ensures that all solutions adhere to industry standards and regulations, with a strong focus on data security and privacy.
• Produces and shepherds architecture artifacts and designs through the architecture governance process.
• Collaborates with stakeholders, clients, product management, engineering, technical platform architects, security, and operations teams to understand needs and translate them into actionable product architecture designs aligned with business goals.
• Supports new products and product releases through serverless cloud-native design and microservice architecture models.
• Defines the technical vision and roadmap for cloud-native SaaS products, ensuring alignment with strategic technology direction.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and translate them into actionable product architecture designs aligned with business goals.
• Collaborates with product engineering teams, technical architects, security and operations on product design, including serverless cloud-native design and microservice architecture models, in support of new products and product releases.
• Consults with Product Management to ensure the product roadmap incorporates strategic technology direction.
• Drives the adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies, such as microservices, serverless architectures, AI/ML, into the SaaS products.

Qualifications

• Advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills as demonstrated by the ability to listen, collect, data, and make successful recommendations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead technical discussions and influence decision-making processes related to product architecture.
• Ability to cultivate internal relationships and effectively engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders, share insights, and drive innovation.
• Intermediate knowledge of utilizing compliance frameworks and regulations (e.g., HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2).
• Familiarity with Identity and Access models in on-prem and public cloud.
• Advanced proficiency in cloud-native serverless application design and development, microservices architecture, and event driven design patterns.
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools, including AWS CloudWatch.
• Demonstrated practice of emotional intelligence that is used to work effectively in a deadline driven, agile environment.
• Expertise in cloud service design patterns and architectures, including multi-region and multi-tenant SaaS models.
• Experience 10 years experience in application or solution architecture.
• 8 years experience in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, cloud-native application design and deployment.
• 5 year proven track record of successfully designing, deploying, and managing large-scale, complex serverless SaaS solutions on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• 5 years experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and DevOps.