Principal Cloud-Native Platform Architect

Blue Shield of CA

Virginia Beach (VA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Blue Shield of CA—Stellarus Technology team seeks a Principal, Application Architecture to guide architecture direction for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives. You will translate strategy into design tangible for engineering teams and drive modernization efforts.

This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on design, API contracts, and production tradeoffs in cloud environments, with strong emphasis on payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4+ years of relevant experience.
10+ years in software engineering, application architecture, or platform engineering.
Experience leading architecture for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
Deep knowledge of domain-driven design and service decomposition.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate strategy into execution.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives.
Drive build-vs-buy and modernization decisions for platform components.
mentor senior engineers, architects, and tech leads.
Collaborate with product, security, and operations to ensure scalable designs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

API design

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

OpenAPI

Job description

This senior IC role emphasizes hands-on design, API contracts, and production tradeoffs in cloud environments, with strong emphasis on payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows.

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