Principal Technology Architect

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization seeking a Principal Technology Architect to define the future of their product architecture. This remote position combines strategic technology vision with hands-on design across cloud infrastructure, enterprise DevOps workflows, and next-generation AI capabilities.

As a senior individual contributor, you will translate complex business and technology needs into practical architecture roadmaps and executable designs. You'll lead architecture decisions for cloud-native platforms, DevOps automation, AI integration, orchestration patterns, and AWS capabilities including serverless technologies and enterprise cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture blueprints for secure, scalable AWS environments optimized for autonomous AI agent orchestration
• Embed AI-driven automation directly into the DevOps SDLC to accelerate software delivery, testing, and security scanning
• Align executive technology strategy with implementation teams, defining governance, security, and compliance frameworks for AI workflows
• Design and communicate the architectural vision and strategy for healthcare SaaS products, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology direction and product roadmap priorities
• Design and implement cloud-native SaaS architectures that perform at scale, with emphasis on elasticity, availability, resiliency, and secure integration
• Maintain a holistic product technology scorecard, including technical roadmap, technical debt inventory, product security alignment, and architecture standards
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting best practices in software design, development, and operational optimization
• Champion elastic, serverless, and microservice architecture patterns aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Ensure solutions adhere to applicable industry standards, regulatory requirements, architecture governance expectations, and data security and privacy obligations
• Produce and shepherd architecture artifacts, designs, and decision records through the architecture governance process
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product management, engineering, platform architects, security, and operations to translate business needs into actionable product architecture designs
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies, including AI/ML, automation, microservices, and serverless architectures

What We're Looking For

Required Experience:

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

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Distinguished engineer/architect with deep technical credibility and enterprise-level architecture leadership capability
• Deep, hands-on strategic knowledge of modern SDLC automation and 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
• Strong executive communication, interpersonal influence, and stakeholder engagement skills

Required Certifications and Education:

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

Preferred Experience:

• 5+ years as an architect in a commercial SaaS environment
• 5+ years operating within an architecture governance framework
• Master's degree
• Other relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL, Cloud Security)

Location and Working Conditions:

• Remote position in the United States
• Occasional overnight travel (up to 10%)
• Must be able to use equipment at workstation for up to 8 hours daily
• Must have legal authorization to work in the US

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. We work closely with our clients to identify exceptional candidates who match their technical and cultural requirements. If your background aligns with this opportunity, we will guide you through the interview process and submit your profile to our client for consideration.

Please apply exclusively through Get A Job.ai. Do not attempt to contact the client organization directly, as all candidate communication is managed through our recruiting team to ensure a professional and coordinated hiring process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed with qualified candidates during the screening process.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status, or status as an individual with a disability.