Sr/Principal Architect-(Onsite) Overland Park, KS

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise-wide architectural strategies and multi-year platform roadmaps.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of modern cloud technologies including Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, serverless, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Champion the integration of AI, ML, and data-driven capabilities into Netsmart’s product ecosystem.
• Promote and provide hands-on engineering support through code reviews, design reviews, prototyping, and reference implementations.
• Deliver deep architectural guidance across Java, Postgres QL, C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, Azure, and AWS cloud services.
• Build and validate technical proofs-of-concept to accelerate innovation and reduce delivery risk.
• Support delivery teams in designing scalable, performant, cloud-native systems.
• Promote an AI-first, data-driven mindset across engineering and product teams.
• Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to define modern data architectures, pipelines, and governance.
• Drive adoption of emerging AI/ML technologies and frameworks that enhance user experience and operational intelligence.
• Champion modern engineering practices rooted in data insights and model-driven design.
• Partner with Executive Business Leadership to translate business goals into well-architected solutions and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Collaborate with DevOps, UX, cloud infrastructure teams, and engineering leaders to ensure alignment on delivery and architecture.
• Communicate complex technical strategies and tradeoffs to executive leadership in clear, digestible terms.
• Support teams throughout the SDLC with architectural oversight, technical guidance, and mentorship.
• Identify risks and constraints early and guide engineering toward scalable, practical solutions.
• Lead modernization initiatives including cloud migration, legacy system decomposition, domain-driven design, and API-first architecture.
• Ensure architectures meet standards for performance, reliability, interoperability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Principal Architect, Senior Architect, or Principal Engineer building enterprise-scale systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience with industry standard technologies including Java, Postgres QL, C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure, and SQL Server.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services, serverless computing, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct high-quality code reviews and guide engineering best practices.
• Experience designing data-driven systems and integrating AI/ML into applications.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Must be onsite and work full-time at our Overland Park, KS office.