[Hiring] Principal Software Architect @Abacus Insights

Role Description

Abacus is scaling fast – more Data Solutions applications, more agent-assisted engineering, more complexity worth getting right. We're creating this role to put a single, senior technical voice at the center of that growth: someone who can take sharp architectural judgment and turn it into standards the whole organization can build on with confidence.

We're looking for an experienced Principal Software Architect to set the technical vision for how Abacus builds, secures, and scales its healthcare data platform. This is a senior individual-contributor role, not a management track – you'll be the architecture guru and evangelist for our platform, translating business and customer needs into target-state architectures across data, applications, cloud, and agent-assisted engineering, and mentoring engineers and Solution Architects as you go.

Your day to day:

• Core architecture leadership:
  • Own and evolve the reference architecture for Abacus's core platform – data ingestion, transformation, distribution, and serving.
  • Set and enforce architecture standards for scaling, high availability/disaster recovery design, serverless patterns, and multi-tenant SaaS architecture across our AWS and Azure environments.
  • Guide architecture for HITRUST and GovRamp compliance alignment.
• Healthcare data and platform architecture:
  • Design scalable architectures for payer data solutions spanning claims, membership, provider, clinical, lab, and pharmacy/Rx domains.
  • Apply FHIR-based interoperability patterns and healthcare data standards.
  • Establish data contracts, lineage, quality controls, metadata, and integration patterns.
• Application architecture and user experience foundation:
  • Own the design system and front-end/UX standards for Data Solutions applications.
  • Define standard user-management capabilities as reusable patterns.
• Agent-driven development and AI-enabled engineering:
  • Translate approved architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics.
  • Evaluate agent-generated code and designs against architectural gold standards.
  • Partner with AI Engineering on semantic/context layers and agent interfaces.
• Architecture governance, mentoring, and influence:
  • Be an active senior member and contributor to Abacus's Architecture and Data Guilds.
  • Mentor engineers and Solution Architects through pairing on designs, reviews, and pilots.
  • Establish lightweight architecture review mechanisms.
• Production readiness and operability:
  • Ensure every architecture package includes deployment topology, support model, rollback strategy, and operational telemetry.
  • Hold designs to a resiliency bar appropriate for a platform of Abacus's scale.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior architecture roles.
• Demonstrated experience setting enterprise-level architecture standards.
• Deep, hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
• Strong experience with data platforms and distributed data processing.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Direct experience building or maintaining reference architectures.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Continuously identify opportunities to convert custom implementations into reusable platform capabilities.
• Drive standardization without sacrificing business agility.
• Shape the long-term technical foundation while balancing immediate delivery needs.
• Working knowledge of agentic and AI-enabled engineering.
• Understanding of healthcare payer, provider, clinical, and claims data ecosystems.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it.
• Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life.
• Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from.
• Equity for every employee – share in our success.
• Growth-focused environment – your development matters here.
• Home office setup allowance – one-time support to get you started.
• Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease.