Principal Software Architect

Remote - USFull-TimePrincipal
Salary198,000 - 258,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or architecture
Required Skills
DevOpsMicroservicesDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or architecture.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, cloud architectures, and modern application platforms.
  • Proven experience architecting regulated or high-reliability systems, preferably within medical or health tech domains.
  • Mastery of architectural domains including microservices, event-driven systems, data pipelines, and observability.
  • Strong knowledge of DevOps/SRE practices and cloud-native technologies.
  • Exceptional ability to influence executive teams and communicate complex technical concepts in business-relevant terms.
  • Experience with regulatory frameworks such as FDA, EU MDR, IEC 62304, or HIPAA is highly preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML platform architecture and model deployment.
  • Experience with healthcare data standards like FHIR or HL7 is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Define the multiyear architecture strategy for product software systems spanning cloud, application, data, and ML/AI infrastructure.
  • Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, and guardrails to support reliability, performance, and regulatory compliance.
  • Lead cross-functional architecture forums and governance processes to ensure consistent patterns and decision-making.
  • Partner with product management to translate business needs into scalable technical strategies and roadmaps.
  • Collaborate with security, privacy, regulatory, quality, and clinical teams to ensure designs meet medical device standards.
  • Provide architectural oversight throughout the SDLC from concept to release.
  • Mentor engineering leads and architects to drive standardization and technical excellence.
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