Principal Product Architect

Overview

The Principal Product Architect will play a pivotal role in leading the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS products, with an emphasis on public cloud design and deployment. This is a senior-level position requiring deep expertise in cloud technologies, SaaS models, and a proven track record of successful SaaS product deployment.

You will be responsible for defining the architectural vision, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of products within your purview.

The Principal Product Architect partners with product management to ensure product roadmaps and release planning and align with the defined technology strategy. This role guides product engineering teams in the architecturally sound product design for public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid product deployments and maintains a product technology roadmap to achieve target state product alignment. This role focuses on technology assessments, proofs-of-concept, living architectural artifacts in the architecture governance lifecycle, and ensuring product design compliance with architecture, security, and operational standards.

This role provides thought leadership and, through the product technology roadmap, collaborates with product leadership to reconceive existing products to cloud native designs. This person engages with product engineering, technical architecture, security and operations to ensure compliance with reference product models.

The Principal Product Architect brings a blend of commercial SaaS product design, technical expertise, cross functional acumen, and translates complex requirements into actionable plans while promoting innovation, collaboration, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Strategy
• 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
• Technical Oversight:
• 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
• Scalability and Performance:
• Champions the use of elastic, serverless cl