Principal Software Architect

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm , you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

About the Role

The Principal Software Architect is a senior individual contributor who defines, leads, and governs the software architecture vision across our medical and non‑medical digital ecosystem. This includes cloud services, analytics platforms, data pipelines, clinician and patient‑facing applications, AI/ML enablement platforms, and operational software systems.

This leader drives architectural excellence, technology strategy, and systems coherence across R&D, product, clinical, data science, and the intersection of our products with IT. The role ensures that the software ecosystem is secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and aligned with product strategy and long-term business goals. Operating at an enterprise level, this role influences senior stakeholders across engineering, product, quality, regulatory, and security while maintaining deep technical credibility.

Key Responsibilities

Technology & Architecture Strategy

Define the multiyear architecture strategy for all off device software systems, spanning cloud, application, data, integration, and ML/AI infrastructure.

Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, and guardrails that support reliability, performance, interoperability, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.

Ensure holistic systems thinking across software platforms, clinical workflows, device interactions, and data flows.

Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations for adoption, modernization, and platform evolution.

Architectural Leadership & Governance

Lead cross-functional architecture forums and governance processes, ensuring consistent patterns, shared services, and disciplined decision-making across teams.

Drive architectural clarity early in product development by guiding systems decomposition, API strategies, data models, and cloud architectures.

Review key technical proposals, high-impact design decisions, and fundamental platform changes across R&D teams.

Champion engineering quality standards for architecture, coding, testing, observability, and documentation.

Cross Functional Influence & Collaboration

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