Principal Product Architect

October 20

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We deliver the capabilities and develop the products and solutions that create healthier outcomes for healthier lives. Born from the Blues, for the Blues, our common goals are so tightly aligned with health plan strategies that when our customers succeed, we succeed.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1987

📋 Description

• 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 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 • 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.

🎯 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 • 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

🏖️ 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 • E-Learning – Comprehensive and current library of e-learning and performance support assets, available on demand and at no cost