Platform Architecture Leader — Microservices & API Strategy

Blue Shield of CA; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus Technology seeks a Principal, Application Architecture to drive architecture decisions for platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives. You will translate platform strategy into actionable system designs, guide engineers, and manage build-vs-buy decisions while collaborating with product and operations teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding direction, API design, and production tradeoffs across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows, with an emphasis on security and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional relevant experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering, application architecture or platform engineering.
• Experience leading architecture for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on engineering with API contracts, data modeling, and deployment tradeoffs.
• Deep experience with domain-driven design and reusable platform patterns.
• Healthcare, payer, pharma or SOC 2/HIPAA experience preferred.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Leadership

Communication

Influence stakeholders

Guidance on API & data modeling

Mentoring

Cloud-native architecture

Domain-driven design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (4 years experience in lieu of degree)

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Stellarus Technology seeks a Principal, Application Architecture to drive architecture decisions for platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives. You will translate platform strategy into actionable system designs, guide engineers, and manage build-vs-buy decisions while collaborating with product and operations teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding direction, API design, and production tradeoffs across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows, with an emphasis on security and