[Hiring] Principal Technology Architect @NASCO

Role Description

The Principal Technology Architect helps define the future of our SaaS product architecture by combining strategic technology vision with hands-on design across cloud infrastructure, enterprise DevOps workflows, and next-generation agentic AI capabilities. This role is ideal for a senior architect who can set architectural direction while actively shaping secure, scalable, and resilient solutions using AWS, AI-enabled engineering practices, and emerging agent technologies.

In this senior individual contributor role, you will translate complex business and technology needs into practical architecture roadmaps and executable designs. You will lead architecture decisions for:

• Cloud-native platforms
• DevOps automation
• Agentic AI integration
• Orchestration patterns
• Agent-to-agent collaboration
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• AWS capabilities such as AgentCore, Strands, and Amazon Bedrock

Partnering with product, engineering, security, operations, and enterprise architecture leaders, you will:

• Evaluate emerging technologies
• Guide proofs of concept
• Ensure modern product designs meet architecture, security, governance, and operational standards across public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments

The successful candidate will bring deep AWS architecture expertise, strong DevOps and SDLC automation experience, and the ability to apply agentic AI responsibly to improve scalability, delivery speed, resiliency, and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• Distinguished engineer/architect with deep technical credibility and enterprise-level architecture leadership capability
• Deep, hands-on strategic knowledge of modern SDLC automation and Agentic AI platform design
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services, cloud architecture principles, cost optimization strategies, and secure cloud-native implementation patterns
• Advanced proficiency in cloud-native serverless application design and development, microservices architecture, event-driven design patterns, and multi-region, multi-tenant SaaS models
• Ability to apply scalability, high availability, data retention, disaster recovery, resiliency, monitoring, observability, and security best practices across enterprise SaaS environments
• Working knowledge of healthcare technology compliance frameworks and regulations, including HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2, data privacy, and cloud identity and access models
• Strong architecture governance capability, including the ability to define standards, produce architecture artifacts, document decisions, and guide solutions through governance review
• Advanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including the ability to listen, synthesize complex technical and business inputs, analyze data, and make sound recommendations
• Strong executive communication, interpersonal influence, and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to lead technical discussions, align technical and non-technical audiences, and drive innovation

Requirements

• 10 years experience in application or solution architecture
• 8 years experience in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, cloud-native application design and deployment
• 5 year proven track record of successfully designing, deploying, and managing large-scale, complex serverless SaaS solutions on public cloud, preferably AWS
• 5 years experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and DevOps

Preferred Experience

• 5 years experience as an architect in a commercial SaaS environment
• 5 years experience operating within an architecture governance framework

Required Training, Certification and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent experience
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Preferred Training, Certification and Education

• Master’s degree
• Other relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL, Cloud Security) are a plus

Working Conditions

• Home Office/Remote
• Occasional overnight travel (up to 10%) by land and/or air
• Must be able to use equipment at workstation for up to 8 hours daily

Benefits

• Physical and Mental Health Benefits
• Choice of Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
• Telehealthcare – for Medical and Behavioral visits
• Generous PTO with buy/sell options
• 9 Company holidays, a floating day off, and a day off for volunteering
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness program - earn insurance discounts or credit towards health-related items
• Financial Health Benefits
• 401K Plan with employer matching contributions
• Company-funded spending/reimbursement accounts to help with out-of-pocket medical expenses
• Bonus and Recognition programs
• Tuition Assistance
• Consultation with financial planner
• Basic Life & AD&D Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance provided, and Supplemental Term Life Insurance is available
• Group Discount programs - mobile, technology services, etc., to help you save money
• Other Benefits
• E-Learning – Comprehensive and current library of e-learning and performance support assets, available on demand and at no cost