[Hiring] Principal Architectural Engineer @Gainwell Technologies LLC

Role Description

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

The Principal Architectural Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, engineering, governing, and supporting secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions across enterprise and client environments. This role provides strategic architecture leadership for cloud modernization, platform engineering, Kubernetes-based workloads, application modernization, and Health and Human Services (HHS) technology solutions.

The Principal Architectural Engineer partners closely with engineering, operations, security, product, and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical solutions while establishing architecture standards, mentoring engineering teams, supporting solutioning and proposal development, and driving innovation through cloud-native, AI-enabled, and automation-first practices.

An ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes/EKS platforms, DevSecOps practices, and Medicaid delivery systems, with demonstrated experience supporting large-scale Health and Human Services environments.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Architecture & Solution Design
• Health & Human Services (HHS) and Medicaid Solution Leadership
• Cloud Engineering & Platform Architecture
• Kubernetes & Container Platform Engineering
• DevSecOps, Automation & Platform Engineering
• Security, Reliability & Operational Excellence
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring
• Client Solutioning & Business Development

Requirements

• Design and lead end-to-end architecture solutions supporting enterprise, healthcare, and government technology initiatives.
• Develop target-state architectures aligned with business strategy, operational objectives, security requirements, and regulatory compliance obligations.
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and engineering guardrails.
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and provide final technical recommendations for complex architectural decisions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for modernization, automation, AI adoption, and operational efficiency.
• Architect solutions supporting Medicaid and Health and Human Services programs.
• Provide technical leadership for Medicaid modernization, AWS cloud migration, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and product teams to translate healthcare requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Support architecture and integration designs involving various healthcare systems.
• Design and govern enterprise cloud solutions across AWS and Azure environments.
• Lead large-scale cloud migration, modernization, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions.
• Develop platform engineering standards supporting self-service provisioning, infrastructure automation, and cloud governance.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Kubernetes-based platform architecture and engineering.
• Define and implement modern DevSecOps practices across engineering organizations.
• Ensure solutions incorporate security-by-design principles and comply with enterprise security requirements.
• Provide expert-level guidance to architects, engineers, technical leads, and product teams.
• Support proposal development, technical sales engagements, and client solutioning activities.

Benefits

• Generous, flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) employer match
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Educational assistance
• Leadership and technical development academies

Company Description

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.