[Hiring] Principal Architect, AI & Platform @Council Capital

Role Description

This is a hands-on senior technical role with multiple connected responsibilities. You will provide architectural guidance across our engineering teams by ensuring services integrate cleanly and evolve without accumulating debt, and you will lead the design and delivery of AI-augmented capabilities:

• Features that help auditors work faster, identify more issues, and make better-supported decisions.
• Collaborate with various teams throughout the organization to champion, guide, and support implementations of new AI technologies and their associated processes.

Payment integrity is a high-stakes, regulated domain. Every recovery decision must be defensible in court and subject to audit. This means our current AI strategy emphasizes augmentation and surfacing to make our customers’ lives easier and deliver demonstrable business value.

• Build AI capabilities that work with our auditors, that can be explained to a customer or a regulator, and that hold up when a provider disputes a finding.
• Prove to our customers that we constantly evaluate bias and performance testing.

You will not have direct reports initially, but you will provide technical leadership across engineering and data science by:

• Establishing standards and coaching engineers to align with them.
• Reviewing designs and providing concrete, well-supported recommendations on architecture that align with the company's strategy and vision.
• Providing recommendations and guidance on improving processes using AI.

What You Will Do

Initial Goals/Technical Roadmap

• Within 1 month, produce a current-state architecture map of our platform.
• Within 2 months, develop a concrete AI integration roadmap with prioritized use cases, sequenced by value and feasibility.
• Within 3 months, collaborate across teams to engineer a full architectural plan for the application and AI platform with diagrams and documentation.
• Within your first 4 months, lead, build, and ship an initial AI-augmented feature as an MVP, working with our product owners, executive leadership, and customers to prioritize the right initial use case.

Overarching Responsibilities

• Design and deliver AI-augmented capabilities that improve auditor effectiveness, increase operational efficiency, and support better-informed PI and FWA decisions.
• Collaborate across engineering to define and maintain architectural standards the team follows, including API contracts, integration patterns, data flow, and security boundaries.
• Develop and maintain system architecture diagrams.
• Define reusable internal software assets such as shared libraries, APIs, and data contracts that engineering and data science teams can build on.
• Work with compliance and security to define AI data governance policies.
• Evaluate all engineering and AI tooling and vendors pragmatically.
• Build appropriate evaluation and bias testing methodologies.
• Work with sales and operations to understand their current processes and recommended areas where AI can augment and assist them.

Qualifications

• 10+ years architecting SaaS products (not single-use internal applications) with cloud-native technologies.
• Extensive experience in cloud-native design on AWS and/or Azure.
• Proven track record of integrating and building AI into platforms and applications, going beyond simple API usage.
• Hands-on familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP); ideally with implementation experience.
• Hands-on experience with packaged agent runtimes (e.g., Bedrock AgentCore or Azure AI Foundry).
• Experience designing logically multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Strong software fundamentals combined with ongoing learning of emerging AI patterns and protocols.
• Proven ability to communicate adeptly with internal and external stakeholders at the right level of technical detail.
• Sound judgment to instinctively build for extensibility, security, and sane deployment.
• The ability to move quickly and decisively, and to unite engineers rather than working in isolation.

Nice to Have

• Systems and storage architecture across multiple integrated platforms.
• Experience in healthcare or other regulated, high-compliance environments.
• Experience standing up a platform quickly for internal development teams (developer experience).

Benefits

• Commitment to building high-performing teams by hiring the best talent.
• Focus on putting the right people in the right seats, regardless of background.
• Encouragement of fresh thinking, grit, and a drive to make a difference.