Senior Platform Architect - Cloud-Native & Microservices

Blue Shield of CA; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 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 turn platform strategy into systems that engineering teams can build, test, deploy, and operate.

This senior IC role focuses on defining architecture direction, resolving high-impact risks, and guiding design decisions across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 10+ years of software engineering, application architecture, platform engineering, or related technical experience.
• Experience leading application architecture for distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, microservices, internal platforms, or modernization initiatives.
• Strong 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, shared services, customer extensions, and reusable platform patterns.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate platform strategy into clear architecture direction.
• Experience designing and operating microservices and event-driven systems in a cloud environment (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable).
• Strong API and data architecture judgment including REST, OpenAPI, event contracts, PostgreSQL, analytics handoffs, authorization, tenant isolation, and auditability.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, architects, and technical leads.
• Healthcare, payer, pharma, regulated industries, SOC 2, HIPAA, or security-sensitive platform experience is preferred.
• Enterprise architecture experience is a plus when paired with hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives.
• Turn platform strategy into systems that engineering teams can build, test, deploy, and operate.
• Own architecture direction for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives.
• Resolve high-impact technical risks and cross-team design conflicts.
• Drive build-vs-buy, integration consolidation, and modernization decisions across platforms.
• Influence senior stakeholders and set clear execution standards.
• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leads.
• Work across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows with a cloud-first mindset.

Skills

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Microservices

API contracts

OpenAPI

PostgreSQL

Event-driven architecture

Leadership & mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years related 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 turn platform strategy into systems that engineering teams can build, test, deploy, and operate.

This senior IC role focuses on defining architecture direction, resolving high-impact risks, and guiding design decisions across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows.