Principal Technology Architect

Overview

The Principal Technology Architect helps define the future of our SaaS product architecture by combining strategic technology vision with hands-on design across cloud infrastructure, enterprise DevOps workflows, and next-generation agentic AI capabilities. This role is ideal for a senior architect who can set architectural direction while actively shaping secure, scalable, and resilient solutions using AWS, AI-enabled engineering practices, and emerging agent technologies.

In this senior individual contributor role, you will translate complex business and technology needs into practical architecture roadmaps and executable designs. You will lead architecture decisions for cloud-native platforms, DevOps automation, agentic AI integration, orchestration patterns, agent-to-agent collaboration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AWS capabilities such as AgentCore, Strands, and Amazon Bedrock.

Partnering with product, engineering, security, operations, and enterprise architecture leaders, you will evaluate emerging technologies, guide proofs of concept, and ensure modern product designs meet architecture, security, governance, and operational standards across public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

The successful candidate will bring deep AWS architecture expertise, strong DevOps and SDLC automation experience, and the ability to apply agentic AI responsibly to improve scalability, delivery speed, resiliency, and long-term maintainability.

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 C-suite technology strategy with implementation teams, defining governance, security, and compliance frameworks for AI workflows
• Define 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 across infrastructure, services, and applications
• Maintain a holistic product technology scorecard, including the technical roadmap, technical debt inventory, product security alignment, architecture standards, and operational reference model compliance
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting best practices in software design, development, operational optimization, and continuous learning
• Champion elastic, serverless, and microservice architecture patterns that support highly scalable and resilient SaaS products aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and cloud best practices
• 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, clients, product management, engineering, technical 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, incorporating relevant trends into the architectural roadmap

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Distinguished engineer/architect with deep technical credibility and enterprise-level architecture leadership capability
• Deep, hands-on strategic knowledge of modern SDLC automation and Agentic 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, including the ability to listen, synthesize complex technical and business inputs, analyze data, and make sound recommendations
• Strong executive communication, interpersonal influence, and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to lead technical discussions, align technical and non-technical audiences, and drive innovation

Experience

• 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

 Preferred Experience

• 5 years experience as an architect in a commercial SaaS environment
• 5 years experience operating within an architecture governance framework

Required Training, Certification and Education

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

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Preferred Training, Certification and Education

• Master’s degree
• Other relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL, Cloud Security) are a plus

Working Conditions:

• Home Office/Remote
• Occasional overnight travel (up to 10%) by land and/or air
• Must be able to use equipment at workstation for up to 8 hours daily

Benefits Overview

At NASCO, we trust our workforce to be fully remote, working from their home. This benefit offers significant, personalized outcomes for each associate including work/life balance, savings on commuting, work clothing, and increased time to spend on personal activities.

Our full benefit package is designed to support the physical, mental, and financial health of our associates. We offer:

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

Other Benefits

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

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other grounds, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. Must have legal authority to work in the US.

We will not accept applicants that use AI when answering the screening questions. Applicants who use AI to answer any questions or to complete their application will not be considered for employment.