Senior Architect, Partner Platform & APIs

Thornton Tomasetti; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefits

Job summary

Abbott seeks a Staff Architect for the Lingo Partner Platform in Alameda, CA. You will own the technical architecture enabling secure, scalable data sharing with partners and ingestion of biosensor data to enrich user experience.

You will define architecture standards, lead reviews, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product, Security, and Privacy teams to meet HIPAA and GDPR requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in architect/technical lead roles on API/integration/data platforms.
• Proven experience architecting external-facing APIs and developer platforms.
• Deep experience with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect, API gateways, and consent-based access models.
• Strong experience designing data ingestion pipelines and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Azure cloud services and privacy frameworks (HIPAA/PHI/GDPR).
• Hands-on ability to prototype, review code, and guide teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture of Lingo's Partner Platform, including onboarding, data sharing, and ingestion.
• Define architecture principles, reference designs, and integration patterns for consistency.
• Lead architecture reviews and document key decisions; manage technical debt and trade-offs.
• Assess platform gaps and risks; plan evolution as partner ecosystem grows.
• Architect secure, scalable APIs, webhooks, and event streams for partners.
• Design consent models (OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect) with user control and revocation.
• Define access controls, data minimization, rate limiting, and audit trails.
• Set API standards, versioning, and deprecation policies.
• Design data contracts, schema management, and data quality controls.
• Document API documentation, SDKs, and reference implementations.
• Mentor engineers; collaborate with Product and Partnerships.

Skills

API architecture

Technical leadership

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

Data ingestion pipelines

Cloud architecture (Azure)

Security & privacy compliance

RESTful APIs

Architecture reviews

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / software engineering

Tools

Azure API Management

Kafka / Event Hubs

FHIR / HL7

Job description

Abbott seeks a Staff Architect for the Lingo Partner Platform in Alameda, CA. You will own the technical architecture enabling secure, scalable data sharing with partners and ingestion of biosensor data to enrich user experience.

You will define architecture standards, lead reviews, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product, Security, and Privacy teams to meet HIPAA and GDPR requirements.