Principal Product Architect

NASCO • Brookside, DE

64d

About The Position

The Principal Product Architect will play a pivotal role in leading the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS products, with an emphasis on public cloud design and deployment. This is a senior-level position requiring deep expertise in cloud technologies, SaaS models, and a proven track record of successful SaaS product deployment. You will be responsible for defining the architectural vision, ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of products within your purview. The Principal Product Architect partners with product management to ensure product roadmaps and release planning and align with the defined technology strategy. This role guides product engineering teams in the architecturally sound product design for public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid product deployments and maintains a product technology roadmap to achieve target state product alignment. This role focuses on technology assessments, proofs-of-concept, living architectural artifacts in the architecture governance lifecycle, and ensuring product design compliance with architecture, security, and operational standards. This role provides thought leadership and, through the product technology roadmap, collaborates with product leadership to reconceive existing products to cloud native designs. This person engages with product engineering, technical architecture, security and operations to ensure compliance with reference product models. The Principal Product Architect brings a blend of commercial SaaS product design, technical expertise, cross functional acumen, and translates complex requirements into actionable plans while promoting innovation, collaboration, and operational efficiency.

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.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to cultivate internal relationships and effectively engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Defines and communicates the architectural vision and strategy for 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.
• 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.
• Champions the use of elastic, serverless cloud-native design concepts for highly scalable and resilient SaaS products.
• 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.
• Drives the adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies, such as microservices, serverless architectures, AI/ML, into the SaaS products.

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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees