Principal Software Architect

ThePrincipal Software Architectis a senior individual contributor who defines, leads, and governs the software architecture vision across our medical and non medical digital ecosystem. This includes cloud services, analytics platforms, data pipelines, clinician and patient facing applications, AI/ML enablement platforms, and operational software systems.

This leader drives architectural excellence, technology strategy, and systems coherence across R&D, product, clinical, data science, andthe intersection of our products withIT. The role ensures that the software ecosystem is secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and aligned with product strategy andlong-termbusiness goals. Operating at an enterprise level, thisroleinfluences senior stakeholders across engineering, product, quality, regulatory, and security whilemaintainingdeep technical credibility.

• Define the multiyear architecture strategy for alloff devicesoftware systems, spanning cloud, application, data, integration, and ML/AI infrastructure.

• Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, and guardrails that support reliability, performance, interoperability, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.

• Ensure holisticsystemsthinking across software platforms, clinical workflows, device interactions, and data flows.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations for adoption, modernization, and platform evolution.

• Lead cross-functional architecture forums and governance processes, ensuring consistent patterns, shared services, and disciplined decision-making across teams.

• Drive architectural clarity early in product development by guidingsystemsdecomposition, API strategies, data models, and cloud architectures.

• Review key technical proposals, high-impact design decisions, andfundamentalplatform changes across R&D teams.

• Championengineering quality standards for architecture, coding, testing, observability, and documentation.

• Partner with product management to translate business needs into scalable technical strategies and architectural roadmaps.

• Collaborate with security, privacy, regulatory, quality, and clinical teams to ensure designs meet medical device standards and software compliance requirements.

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior leadership, articulating architectural options, trade-offs, risks, and business impacts.

• Bridgeoffdeviceandondevicesystems to ensure seamlessendtoendworkflows, data flows, and system integrity.

• Provide architectural oversight throughout the SDLC, guiding teams during concepting, detailed design, implementation, and release.

• Drive standardization, reducingduplicationand acceleratingdevelopmentvelocity through clear architectural patterns.

• Mentor engineering leads and architects across the organization through thought leadership, coaching, and technical review.

• Lead technical investigation and resolution of complex systemic issues, spanning data, scalability, reliability, or workflow interactions.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or architecture, with deepexpertisein largescale distributed systems, cloud architectures, and modern application platforms.

• Proven experience architecting regulated orhigh reliabilitysystems (preferably within medical, health tech, or similar domains).

• Mastery of architectural domains such as microservices,event drivensystems, data pipelines, observability, DevOps/SRE practices, andcloud nativetechnologies.

• Ability tooperateas asenior levelindividual contributor influencing executive teams without direct authority.

• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts in clear, concise, andbusinessrelevantterms.

• Demonstrated success partnering withcrossfunctionalleaders across product, security, quality, regulatory, data science, and infrastructure.

• Experience with FDA, EU MDR, IEC 62304, HIPAA, and related regulatory frameworks for software as part of medical systems.

• Background supporting AI/ML platform architecture, model deployment, and clinicaldecisionsupportsoftware.

• Experience designing architectures that integrate with medical devices, clinical systems, EHRs, or healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7).

• Prior leadership in organizations scaling complex multiproduct software ecosystems.