Senior Principal, Platform Architecture & AI-Driven Systems

Blue Shield of CA; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Senior Principal Application Architect to shape enterprise-scale distributed systems across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows. You will set architecture direction, define reusable services, and guide vendor integrations with a hands-on approach that stays close to code and production tradeoffs.

This is a senior IC role focused on microservices, API contracts, data modeling, and cloud-native platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or 4+ years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.

Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise-scale architecture direction for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.

Skills

microservices

API ecosystems

event-driven architecture

domain-driven design

integration strategy

platform services

TypeScript

Node.js

Kubernetes

CI/CD

infrastructure automation

OpenAPI

PostgreSQL

security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure API Management

Azure Service Bus

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Docker

Dapr

NestJS

React

Next.js

Python

Job description

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Senior Principal Application Architect to shape enterprise-scale distributed systems across payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows. You will set architecture direction, define reusable services, and guide vendor integrations with a hands-on approach that stays close to code and production tradeoffs.

This is a senior IC role focused on microservices, API contracts, data modeling, and cloud-native platforms.