Senior Platform Architect — Cloud-Native & Microservices

Blue Shield of CA; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus Technology seeks a Principal, Application Architecture to lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives. You will translate platform strategy into concrete designs for distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native deployments, while aligning with engineering execution and production tradeoffs.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, vendor integration, and modernization efforts across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or HS diploma with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering or architecture experience.
• Experience leading application architecture for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on engineering background guiding service design, API contracts, data modeling, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives.
• Turn platform strategy into executable architecture for engineers.
• Drive build-vs-buy, integration consolidation, and modernization decisions.
• Influence senior stakeholders and set execution standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Microservices

Domain-driven design

API design

OpenAPI

Data modeling

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder influence

Production tradeoffs

Education

Bachelor's degree or HS diploma with 4+ years experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Stellarus Technology seeks a Principal, Application Architecture to lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives. You will translate platform strategy into concrete designs for distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native deployments, while aligning with engineering execution and production tradeoffs.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, vendor integration, and modernization efforts across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows.