Principal Software Architect Pleasanton, CA / Sunnyvale, CA

Abbott seeks a Principal Software Architect to define and govern the architecture strategy for a large-scale, multi-product cloud-native platform on Microsoft Azure. This role provides technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, ensuring platform scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural vision, roadmap, standards, and technology strategy for multi-product cloud-native platform
• Design highly scalable, resilient, secure distributed systems supporting millions of transactions and connected devices
• Lead architecture for event-driven microservices using domain-driven design, API-first approach, and asynchronous patterns
• Establish enterprise-wide architecture principles covering security, scalability, compliance, performance, and cost optimization
• Mentor senior engineers and architects while driving architectural excellence and conducting design authority reviews

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years software engineering experience with significant enterprise and cloud architecture roles
• 6+ years designing and architecting cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure
• Proven experience architecting large-scale SaaS products with microservices, web, mobile, IoT, and data components
• Deep expertise in cloud-native design patterns: microservices, service mesh, event sourcing, CQRS, DDD, Kubernetes
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, and distributed messaging systems
• Extensive knowledge of Azure services: AKS, API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, IoT Hub, Cosmos DB, Functions