Senior Principal Software Architect - Healthcare

About the role

The Senior Principal Software Architect shapes and guides the architecture of complex systems, platforms, and technology practice domains across the organization (examples: DevSecOps, Machine Learning/AI, Web/mobile, data platforms, integration architecture, cloud infrastructure, etc.). The role balances architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery by considering business outcomes, quality attributes, organizational capabilities, cost, risk, and time-to-market commitments. The architect remains hands-on through discovery, design, technical spikes, reference implementations, and foundational assets that enable durable delivery, develop the capabilities of others, and sustain support continuity.

The architect also communicates architectural strategy, trade-offs, risk, and technology direction to technical and nontechnical stakeholders and evaluates industry developments to guide company and partner implementations.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep knowledge across relevant architecture domains and technology disciplines, with demonstrated ability to increase organizational technical competence through stakeholder and engineering feedback.
• Drive architecture strategies and decisions that produce measurable improvements in customer outcomes, delivery speed, cost/TCO, resilience, security, scalability, and operability.
• Ensure resulting systems and services meet agreed service-level objectives and service-level agreements, while architecture decisions, exceptions, risks, and remediation plans remain current and traceable.
• Promote adoption of shared architecture principles, standards, patterns, and platform capabilities across teams to reduce architectural drift, duplicated capabilities, unmanaged complexity, and avoidable rework.
• Serve as a trusted, hands-on advisor to engineering, product, business, and technology leaders, constructively challenging decisions and helping teams reach durable outcomes.
• Develop architecture and technical roadmaps with engineering, product, security, data, infrastructure, and business leadership.
• Shape architecture strategy and drive alignment across technology domains, platforms, product areas, and business capabilities.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through discovery, architecture design, trade-off analysis, technical spikes, reference implementations, architecture fitness tests, and critical design or code reviews.
• Define, socialize, evolve, and drive adoption of architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, implementation guidance, and technical decision records; establish lightweight governance and automated guardrails where appropriate.
• Constructively challenge decisions that diverge from agreed architecture, standards, patterns, or governance processes.
• Ensure exceptions are explicitly risk-assessed, documented, time-bound, and assigned to an accountable owner, escalating material risks when alignment cannot be reached.
• Partner with engineering, product, and program leadership to translate architecture decisions into executable plans, protect critical quality attributes, and resolve trade-offs that could materially affect delivery or operational outcomes.
• Coach internal and external implementation stakeholders on the appropriate application of architecture, patterns, platforms, and technologies, enabling teams to make sound decisions independently.
• Build trusted relationships across engineering, product, security, data, infrastructure, operations, and business leadership. Influence with and without formal authority through listening, coaching, facilitation, evidence, and clear communication of technical and business trade-offs.
• Evaluate relevant industry, vendor, security, regulatory, and platform developments and translate them into actionable recommendations, roadmap changes, or risk-mitigation strategies.
• Identify and address architectural drift, unmanaged complexity, and inappropriate technology use. Work collaboratively with teams to achieve remediation and use formal exception, accountability, and escalation processes when material risks persist.
• Lead evaluation of solution options with a balanced understanding of non-functional quality goals such as scalability, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, operability, and cost against risk and implementation constraints.
• Lead architecture reviews, decision forums, learning sessions, and design discussions. Facilitate resolution of cross-team disagreements and act as an escalation point for material architectural risks or decisions that cannot be resolved within delivery teams.
• Participate in relevant industry conferences and working groups on shaping effective architecture and technical roadmaps.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States (this is not a digital nomad or remote international position).
• Progyny is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship, now or in the future.

About Progyny

Progyny (Nasdaq: PGNY) is a global leader in women’s health and family building solutions, trusted by the nation’s leading employers, health plans, and benefit purchasers. We envision a world where everyone can realize dreams of family and ideal health. Our outcomes prove that comprehensive, inclusive, and intentionally designed solutions simultaneously benefit employers, patients, and physicians.

Our benefits solution empowers patients with concierge support, coaching, education, and digital tools; provides access to a premier network of fertility and women's health specialists who use the latest science and technologies; drives optimal clinical outcomes; and reduces healthcare costs. Our mission is to empower healthier, supported journeys through transformative fertility, family building, and women’s health benefits.

Headquartered in New York City, Progyny has been recognized for its leadership and growth as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, CNBC Disruptor 50, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Forbes' Best Employers, Financial Times Fastest Growing Companies, Inc. 5000, Inc. Power Partners, and Crain's Fast 50 for NYC.

Benefits

• Family friendly benefits: Paid family and parental leave, preconception, fertility and family building benefits (including egg freezing, IVF, and adoption support), family and pet care fund, and Parents’ Employee Affiliation Group.
• Menopause and midlife care.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options for employees and family.
• Free in-person, virtual, and text-based mental health and wellness support.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, personal days, and summer flex time.
• Company equity.
• Bonus program.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Access to on-demand legal and financial advice.
• Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally, including a mentorship program.
• Company social events, including an annual volunteer day and donation matching.
• Flex days (3 days a week in the office) and onsite meals and snacks for employees reporting into the NY office.

Pay

In compliance with New York City's Wage Transparency Law, the annual salary range for NYC-based applicants is $205,000 - $220,000. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. Progyny offers a total compensation package comprised of base salary, cash bonus, and equity.