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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in driving technical strategy and architecture for scalable and reliable systems, with a strong focus on mentoring engineers and optimizing performance across complex, distributed environments. Proficient in designing data pipelines and implementing observability practices to enhance operational excellence.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Technical Strategy DevelopmentArchitecture Design for Distributed SystemsMentoring Senior EngineersCloud Deployment on AWSData Pipeline Architecture
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Hard Skills
PythonJavaRails.NETAPIsCloud PlatformsDatabasesData ArchitectureAutomated TestingContinuous Integration
Soft Skills
Verbal CommunicationListeningAttention to Detail
Tools & Technologies
AWSLoggingMonitoringTracingAlerting
Industry Keywords
HealthcareLife SciencesClinical Trial ProcessesMedical InformaticsRegulated Industries
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaPythonRuby on Rails.NET
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Drive technical strategy and architecture within one or more product lines
- Own end-to-end architecture, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable
- Translate architectural direction into actionable designs and implementations
- Lead complex, cross-functional, high-impact technical initiatives across teams and components
- Establish and reinforce design best practices, patterns, and standards
- Partner with architects to implement and refine architectural direction
- Resolve complex technical challenges involving ambiguity, scale, and cross-team dependencies
- Lead product-line-level design reviews
- Influence prioritization and technical trade-offs
- Mentor and elevate staff and senior engineers
- Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and operational gaps
- Improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence
- Guide technology evaluation and adoption
- Champion security strategy and drive remediation based on security scans and penetration testing
- Collaborate with Product, QA, Support, and Cloud teams
- Act as the primary technical authority for the product line
- Architect reliable data pipelines with data contracts, schema evolution, lineage, versioning, and idempotent processing
- Build and productionize information extraction pipelines, agentic AI applications, and automated evaluation frameworks
- Establish observability for data quality, pipeline reliability, model performance, and inference cost
- Optimize model selection and inference orchestration for quality, latency, throughput, and cost
- Partner with Data Science, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to establish reusable engineering patterns and shared tooling
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, related discipline, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior-level roles with increasing technical leadership responsibility
- Proven experience designing and owning architecture for complex, mission-critical distributed systems
- Deep expertise in modern backend and/or web technologies, including Python, Java, Rails, .NET, frontend frameworks, distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and databases
- Experience guiding technology decisions
- Experience mentoring and developing senior-level engineers and influencing engineering best practices
- Preferred: experience in healthcare, life sciences, or highly regulated industries
- Preferred: working knowledge of clinical trial processes and medical informatics
- Preferred: hands-on experience designing, delivering, and operating applications on AWS using cloud-native services
- Preferred: experience designing for scale and high availability, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant systems
- Preferred: observability practices including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting
- Preferred: production data pipelines and distributed data processing systems
- Preferred: automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, cloud deployment, and operational monitoring
- Preferred: taking AI/ML workflows from prototypes into reliable production systems
- Preferred: data architecture and modeling, schema design and evolution, data quality management, and data lineage
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods at a stationary workstation
- Ability to regularly carry, raise, and lower objects up to 10 lbs.
- Ability to learn and comprehend basic instructions
- Focus and attention to tasks and responsibilities
- Verbal communication, listening and understanding, responding, and speaking
Benefits
Comp & perks- Variable bonus eligibility in addition to base salary
- Health coverage
- Paid holidays