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