Senior Platform Architect - Cloud-Native & Microservices

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

Job summary

Stellarus Technology seeks a Senior Principal, Application Architecture to set direction for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms. You will translate platform strategy into concrete architectural patterns that teams can implement, test, deploy, and operate.

You will mentor engineers, guide API contracts, data models, and cross-domain initiatives, and balance build-vs-buy decisions while staying hands-on enough to keep credibility with developers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering, application architecture, or related technical experience.
• Experience leading architecture for distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, microservices, internal platforms, or modernization initiatives.
• Hands-on engineering background guiding service design, API contracts, code structure, data modeling, testing, deployment, and production tradeoffs.
• Deep experience with domain-driven design, service decomposition, integration architecture, and reusable platform patterns.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate platform strategy into architecture direction and execution standards.
• Experience designing and operating microservices and event-driven systems in a cloud environment (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable).
• Strong API and data architecture judgment (REST, OpenAPI, PostgreSQL, analytics handoffs, isolation, auditability).
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, architects, and tech leads.
• Healthcare, payer, pharma, SOC 2, HIPAA, or security-sensitive platform experience is a plus.
• Enterprise architecture experience a plus when paired with hands-on delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives.
• Drive build-vs-buy, integration consolidation, and modernization decisions for platform capabilities.
• Turn platform strategy into actionable architecture direction and execution standards.
• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leads.
• Balance long-term architectural goals with hands-on delivery and production tradeoffs.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Microservices

API design

Domain-driven design

Vendor integrations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Stellarus Technology seeks a Senior Principal, Application Architecture to set direction for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms. You will translate platform strategy into concrete architectural patterns that teams can implement, test, deploy, and operate.

You will mentor engineers, guide API contracts, data models, and cross-domain initiatives, and balance build-vs-buy decisions while staying hands-on enough to keep credibility with developers.