AI-Native Technical Architect — Remote Impact

ZipStaff Inc.; Manteca (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

ZipStaff Inc. is seeking a Technical Architect II – AI-Native to lead solution architecture for a healthcare analytics and payment-integrity organization.

This remote (U.S.) contract role focuses on turning product direction into implementable designs across APIs, services, data flows, and platform components, with AI as a product capability and engineering accelerator. You will guide architecture decisions, ensure safe AI usage, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, security,

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and building web, workflow, service, and backend applications with architecture ownership.
• Strong API design, service decomposition, integration patterns, and workflow-oriented applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern languages/frameworks such as Java, Golang, Spring, or comparable stacks.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture for the assigned business area.
• Translate business/product intent into delivery-ready designs and specifications.
• Design systems that use AI-enabled capabilities where they create clear business value.
• Set guardrails for safe, accountable use of AI in applications and engineering workflows.
• Advance AI-assisted development: copilots, agents, code generation, automated testing, reusable AI skills.
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, and design reviews (APIs, services, data flows, platform).
• Guide trade-offs across cost, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with developers and tech leads so architecture is realized in code.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, security, data, and enterprise architecture.
• Mentor engineers and other architects on modern and AI-assisted delivery practices.

Skills

8+ years experience

Architecture ownership

API design

Microservices

Cloud-native

AI-assisted development

CI/CD

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's / Master's in CS or related

Tools

Java

Golang

Spring

Job description

ZipStaff Inc. is seeking a Technical Architect II – AI-Native to lead solution architecture for a healthcare analytics and payment-integrity organization.

This remote (U.S.) contract role focuses on turning product direction into implementable designs across APIs, services, data flows, and platform components, with AI as a product capability and engineering accelerator. You will guide architecture decisions, ensure safe AI usage, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, security,