An engineering firm that delivers high-quality Healthcare IT, Cybersecurity, and Telecommunication solutions.
Principal Architect
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$101.1K - $150K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Architect
eSimplicity
• Own reference architecture, cross-team technical standards, architecture governance and decision-making, interoperability patterns, and major technical trade-off analysis. • Lead applicable technical coverage across cloud and DevSecOps engineering, data engineering, data governance and metadata specialization, BI and analytics development, AI/ML platform engineering, security engineering and compliance, API services, partner integrations, and domain architecture. • Guide architecture for platform-first delivery, approved technology direction, infrastructure as code, governed data trust patterns, API-first reuse, secure data sharing, AI-enabled service patterns, public-facing dashboards, and transition-ready artifact management. • Coordinate with customer stakeholders, cloud and platform partners, security and privacy stakeholders, data owners, product teams, and downstream consumers on architecture reviews, environment changes, source onboarding, integrations, public-facing releases, and major technical decisions. • Develop and maintain architectural artifacts in customer-accessible systems, including reference architectures, decision records, diagrams, standards, runbooks, interface documentation, joint operating agreements, service guides, data-flow documentation, and transition materials. • Evaluate new or materially changed services against security, privacy, accessibility, cost transparency, observability, operational readiness, metadata maturity, AI governance, portability, and reuse criteria. • Support joint operating agreements and cross-platform coordination for source-system and downstream-system interfaces, ingestion lead times, schema and metadata changes, incident boundaries, release dependencies, security and privacy responsibilities, support handoffs, and transition responsibilities. • Promote out-of-the-box, native, reusable, open-source-aware, and portable solutions while minimizing unnecessary proprietary dependencies and avoiding contractor-managed external data systems.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years experience in software engineering
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
- All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture for complex cloud, data, analytics, API, AI/ML, or digital platform ecosystems with multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience establishing reference architectures, technical standards, architecture governance, decision records, interoperability patterns, and technical trade-off recommendations.
- Working knowledge of cloud architecture, lakehouse or comparable data platforms, governance layers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, identity and access, API patterns, data sharing, dashboard platforms, and AI/ML enablement patterns.
- Ability to apply security, privacy, accessibility, data-use, Government data-rights, portability, reuse, and transition-readiness constraints to architecture decisions.
- Experience coordinating architecture across product, engineering, data, AI, BI, security, support, and external integration teams in a transparent agile delivery environment.
- Knowledge of federal system delivery expectations such as FISMA, NIST-based controls, FedRAMP-authorized cloud services, ATO support, access reviews, and continuous monitoring.
- Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement benefits
- paid time off
- paid holidays
- life and disability insurance
- additional wellness and employee support programs
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