Principal Engineer - Cloud Architect

Principal Engineer - Cloud Architect

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

What will you do

• Own end-to-end cloud architecture, from requirements and solution design through development, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Define architecture principles, technology standards, and reusable patterns for scalable, secure, highly available, maintainable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Provide cross-team technical leadership by conducting architecture, design, and code reviews; resolving complex performance, scalability, security, and integration challenges; and mentoring engineers across development teams.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Systems, and other business and technical stakeholders; develop proof-of-concepts, evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, and assess architectural trade-offs across cost, performance, security, maintainability, and time-to-market.
• Drive engineering excellence across Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security architecture, cost estimation, risk management and mitigation, privacy, quality, and regulatory compliance, while contributing to technical training, hiring, research, and continuous learning.

What you need

Required Qualifications

• 14+ years of overall software-development experience, including 8+ years of cloud-architecture experience, with demonstrated experience delivering and operating large-scale cloud products in production.
• BS-level technical degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering; Master’s degree desired.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC/Core, Web/REST APIs, microservices, and Windows Services, with experience in multiple programming languages.
• Experience architecting highly available, large-scale enterprise applications across Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments, with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and exposure to AWS and Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of API Management, event-driven architecture, messaging, asynchronous processing, Kubernetes, Docker, service discovery, secrets management, serverless services, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
• Experience with modern application technologies including React.js/Angular/Vue.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, Entity Framework, Git, unit testing, and PowerShell.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and cloud operations, including automated CI/CD, environment provisioning, configuration management, deployment strategies, logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and operational support.
• Strong architecture, analytical, communication, and presentation skills, with experience evaluating technical trade-offs, working in Agile environments, and an architectural certification with one or more Public Cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of HL7 and DICOM protocols.
• Experience or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and implement data analytics tools.
• Demonstrated passion for software development and continuous technical learning, such as active open-source contribution, research activities, proof-of-concepts, or exploration of emerging technologies.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Experience Level

Senior Level