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NASCO · 11 hours ago

Principal Product Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

NASCO is seeking a Principal Product Architect to lead the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS products. This role requires deep expertise in cloud technologies and involves defining the architectural vision while collaborating with product management and engineering teams to ensure compliance with security and operational standards.

AssociationHealth Care

No H1B

Responsibilities

Defines and communicates the architectural vision and strategy for our healthcare SaaS products. Provides guidance to product engineering on design, operational optimization, deployment pipeline best practices, and automation opportunities

Architects and implements cloud-native SaaS products that perform at scale. Designs and manages the architecture of complex, cloud and hybrid products for elasticity, availability, and resiliency. Applies cloud-native design principles and employs best practices to ensure seamless integration of security, infrastructure, services, and applications in public cloud

Maintains a holistic product technology scorecard including a technical roadmap, technical debt inventory, and compliance to product security, architecture, and operational reference models

Provides technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring best practices in software design and development. Fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team

Champions the use of elastic, serverless cloud-native design concepts for highly scalable and resilient SaaS products, ensuring that products comply with AWS Well-Architected Framework and best practices

Ensures that all solutions adhere to industry standards and regulations, with a strong focus on data security and privacy

Produces and shepherds architecture artifacts and designs through the architecture governance process

Collaborates with stakeholders, clients, product management, engineering, technical platform architects, security, and operations teams to understand needs and translate them into actionable product architecture designs aligned with business goals

Supports new products and product releases through serverless cloud-native design and microservice architecture models

Defines the technical vision and roadmap for cloud-native SaaS products, ensuring alignment with strategic technology direction

Collaborates with stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and translate them into actionable product architecture designs aligned with business goals

Collaborates with product engineering teams, technical architects, security and operations on product design, including serverless cloud-native design and microservice architecture models, in support of new products and product releases

Collaborates with product management, engineering, and operations teams to define the technical vision and technical roadmap for cloud-native SaaS products. Consults with Product Management to ensure the product roadmap incorporates strategic technology direction

Drives the adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies, such as microservices, serverless architectures, AI/ML, into the SaaS products. Stays abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, and incorporates them into the architectural roadmap

Qualification

Cloud architectureSaaS product designAWS servicesMicroservices architectureCompliance frameworksServerless application designTechnical mentorshipCritical thinkingCommunication skillsEmotional intelligenceInterpersonal skills

Required

Advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills as demonstrated by the ability to listen, collect, data, and make successful recommendations

Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead technical discussions and influence decision-making processes related to product architecture

Ability to cultivate internal relationships and effectively engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders, share insights, and drive innovation

Strong knowledge of the appropriate use of AWS services and awareness of AWS cost management and optimization strategies

Ability to apply cloud architecture principles, including scalability, high availability, data retention, disaster recovery, and security best practices

Intermediate knowledge of utilizing compliance frameworks and regulations (e.g., HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2)

Familiarity with Identity and Access models in on-prem and public cloud

Advanced proficiency in cloud-native serverless application design and development, microservices architecture, and event driven design patterns

Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools, including AWS CloudWatch

Demonstrated practice of emotional intelligence that is used to work effectively in a deadline driven, agile environment

Expertise in cloud service design patterns and architectures, including multi-region and multi-tenant SaaS models

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

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent experience

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (or equivalent advanced certifications)