Platform Architect

Title: Platform Architect

Location: Pittsburgh, PA - 5 days onsite per week

Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to help shape the future of our enterprise technology platform. This individual will play a key role in defining architectural standards, guiding platform strategy, and enabling engineering teams to build scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and communication skills. You will work closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to design shared platform capabilities that improve software delivery, operational efficiency, and long-term maintainability.

This role offers the opportunity to influence technology decisions across the organization, drive modernization efforts, evaluate emerging technologies including AI-enabled capabilities, and establish best practices that support continued business growth.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for enterprise-wide platform capabilities and shared services.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to establish platform strategy and technical roadmaps.
• Design cloud-native solutions including microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, developer tooling, and reusable platform components.
• Establish architecture standards, governance processes, and engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and architects across multiple teams.
• Support modernization initiatives and guide architectural decision-making for new and existing products.
• Evaluate cloud services, open-source technologies, AI-enabled tools, and emerging technologies for platform adoption.
• Create architecture documentation, reference designs, and implementation guidance.
• Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity.
• Promote reusable design patterns and encourage adoption of modern engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, or platform engineering.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong expertise in:
• Microservices architecture
• API design and integration
• Event-driven systems
• Kubernetes and container platforms
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Cloud infrastructure
• Observability and monitoring solutions
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience developing in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, identity management, and secure software design.
• Ability to assess emerging technologies and translate them into practical business solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within healthcare technology, SaaS, or highly regulated industries.
• Knowledge of interoperability standards, enterprise integrations, or large-scale data platforms.
• Experience with event streaming technologies, service mesh solutions, cloud-native networking, or observability platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled platforms, generative AI, or LLM integrations.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, governance processes, and enterprise modernization programs.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field required.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.

Compensation

$65/hr to $75/hr.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Employees in this role will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package starting on day one of

employment, including options for medical, dental, and vision insurance. Eligibility to enroll in

the 401(k) retirement plan begins after 90 days of employment. Additionally, employees in this

role will have access to paid sick leave and other paid time off benefits as required under the

applicable law of the worksite location.