Principal Platform Architect, Cloud-Native Microservices

Blue Shield of CA; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Principal, Application Architecture to lead architecture decisions for multi-domain platform capabilities. You will translate strategy into concrete designs, drive build-vs-buy choices, and mentor senior engineers to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will work across payer, provider, and partner workflows, ensuring security, compliance, and high availability while maintaining hands-on involvement with design and production tradeoffs in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher and 4+ years' relevant experience.
• 10+ years in software eng or architecture and leadership.
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities.
• Translate strategy into designs for engineers to implement.
• Drive build-vs-buy and integration consolidation across domains.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects on delivery.
• Align with regulatory and security considerations in healthcare.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Mentoring

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenAPI

PostgreSQL

Job description

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Principal, Application Architecture to lead architecture decisions for multi-domain platform capabilities. You will translate strategy into concrete designs, drive build-vs-buy choices, and mentor senior engineers to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will work across payer, provider, and partner workflows, ensuring security, compliance, and high availability while maintaining hands-on involvement with design and production tradeoffs in a fast-paced