Remote Senior Staff Architect: Cloud-Native & API-First

Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. seeks a Sr. Staff Architect – Software Architecture to lead modern enterprise architecture across the organization.

You will design scalable, secure software platforms, guiding microservices and API-first initiatives, while aligning with enterprise standards. Responsibilities include defining standards, enabling teams on cloud-native AWS solutions, and mentoring engineers to improve CI/CD, testing, and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software development and architecture experience, including enterprise-scale systems.
• Deep expertise in software architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and API design.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership on modern software architecture across IT and business teams.
• Define and drive adoption of architecture principles including microservices, API-first design, and cloud-native development.
• Lead architecture and design of scalable applications, including service decomposition and API contracts.
• Architect cloud-native solutions on AWS, aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Mentor engineers and promote CI/CD, observability, testing, and quality.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

API Design

AWS Cloud

Security

Performance

CI/CD

DevOps Tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

Job description

Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. seeks a Sr. Staff Architect – Software Architecture to lead modern enterprise architecture across the organization.

You will design scalable, secure software platforms, guiding microservices and API-first initiatives, while aligning with enterprise standards. Responsibilities include defining standards, enabling teams on cloud-native AWS solutions, and mentoring engineers to improve CI/CD, testing, and observability.