Principal Software Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and advancement of AI-powered software platforms.

• Convert business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and responsible technical solutions.

• Collaborate with software engineers, product teams, data specialists, and business stakeholders.

• Identify AI opportunities and influence architectural decisions.

• Review implementations and provide mentorship on contemporary engineering practices, AI-assisted development, and robust design principles.

• Investigate emerging technologies in AI, machine learning, generative AI, cloud computing, and software architecture, assessing their fit for product platforms.

• Analyze features, data flows, and system designs for scalability, performance, security, and readiness for AI integration.

• Document existing and future architectural patterns, AI integration methodologies, model lifecycle considerations, data governance, observability, and responsible AI guidelines.

• Establish reference architectures for data ingestion, retrieval-augmented generation, model integration, inference services, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

• Advocate for responsible AI practices, including privacy, security, explainability, bias mitigation, regulatory awareness, and judicious use of enterprise data.

• Assist teams in utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance productivity, code quality, documentation, testing, and delivery speed.

• Integrate LLMs and AI services into systems built on .NET and Python.

• Create AI-assisted workflows, copilots, and intelligent automation features.

• Employ prompt engineering, evaluation techniques, and safeguards for reliability and compliance.

• Work alongside data and platform teams to operationalize AI in production environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in web application development, service-oriented architecture, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled application design is preferred.

• More than 10 years in full-stack enterprise application development, with a focus on integrating AI, automation, analytics, or data-driven capabilities is preferred.

• A minimum of 10 years leading Software Engineering teams, including mentoring architects and engineers on AI adoption, architectural trade-offs, and modern delivery practices is preferred.

• Capability to evaluate AI platforms and frameworks, presenting a comparative analysis of benefits, risks, costs, and implementation considerations.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capacity to influence technical strategy across product, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders while promoting responsible and practical AI adoption.

• Proficiency in software architecture and design, with a solid understanding of AI-enabled system design patterns.

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft .NET and modern application integration patterns for AI-enabled services.

• Expert-level experience in relational and non-relational database design, data modeling, and data architecture for analytics and AI applications.

• Experience with enterprise applications in a SaaS cloud environment, including AWS, Azure, and scalable deployment patterns for AI, ML, and data-intensive workloads.

• Familiarity with AWS products and deployment, cloud AI services, model hosting, automation, monitoring, and secure integration patterns.

• Understanding of AI/ML concepts, including model lifecycle management, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, observability, and MLOps practices.

• Awareness of responsible AI, enterprise data protection, privacy, security, compliance, and governance considerations for production AI systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Recognition of remote work and emphasis on work-life balance.

• An inclusive, people-first culture.

• Opportunities for learning, growth, and continuous improvement.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.