Software Architect

Join Abacus, a rapidly growing healthcare data platform, as a Principal Software Architect. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will set the technical vision for how Abacus builds, secures, and scales its platform. You will own and evolve the reference architecture, set and enforce architecture standards, and guide architecture for compliance alignment. You will also design scalable architectures for payer data solutions, own the design system and front-end/UX standards, and translate architecture standards into skills and templates for agent-driven development. Additionally, you will mentor engineers and Solution Architects, establish architecture review mechanisms, and ensure production readiness and operability.

• Establecer y evolucionar la arquitectura de referencia para la plataforma central de Abacus, incluyendo la ingesta, transformación, distribución y servicio de datos.
• Diseñar arquitecturas escalables para soluciones de datos de pagadores que abarcan dominios como reclamaciones, membresía, proveedor, clínico, laboratorio y farmacia.
• Traducir los estándares de arquitectura aprobados en habilidades, reglas, plantillas y rúbricas de evaluación que nuestros flujos de trabajo de desarrollo asistido por agentes puedan consumir directamente.

• Excellent communication skills – able to align senior business and technical stakeholders, explain trade-offs, and produce clear architecture artifacts for both technical and non-technical audiences
• A proven ability to establish standards – you’ve helped define architecture patterns and guardrails and gotten teams to adopt them through influence and collaboration. At the senior and principal levels, this extends to leading adoption across teams and mentoring others
• Strong experience with a modern data platform and distributed data processing (e.g., Databricks and Spark, or Snowflake) and with modern application and service architectures (API-first services, with exposure to Python), identity and authorization, and multi-tenant SaaS patterns
• Direct experience building or maintaining reference architectures or developer platforms used by multiple teams
• Drive standardization without sacrificing business agility
• A full-stack engineering background – hands-on experience across services and APIs, data, and cloud infrastructure – that gives you the credibility to guide architecture end to end
• Shape the long-term technical foundation while balancing immediate delivery needs
• Working knowledge of agentic and AI-enabled engineering – LLM-enabled applications, MCP/A2A, LangGraph or comparable orchestration, AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., Cursor), Agent Driven Development and Harnesses, retrieval/context patterns, evaluation, and responsible AI controls
• Software engineering experience (typically 8+ years, with more depth expected at the senior and principal levels), including significant time in architecture roles designing and guiding complex cloud, data, integration, and application solutions from discovery through production operation
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Continuously identify opportunities to convert custom implementations into reusable platform capabilities
• Experience defining architecture standards, rules, or evaluation rubrics for AI- or agent-assisted development workflows
• Deep, hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure), including containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes/K8s, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, OpenShift, or comparable), Git-based CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and secure production operations
• Healthcare data experience (a big plus): familiarity with healthcare payer, provider, clinical, and claims data, and with FHIR or other healthcare data exchange standards. It’s the area where you’ll ramp fastest here, and we’ll make sure you get up to speed on the rest
• Transformation experience: you’ve been part of a digital transformation or cloud modernization effort – for example, moving legacy systems to cloud-native architectures or breaking apart monoliths – and can bring those lessons with you
• Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Front-end experience: React/TypeScript and design-system or UX standards work
• Familiarity with HITRUST, GovRamp, or comparable compliance and control frameworks, and the ability to design for privacy, least privilege, auditability, and secure SDLC