Platform Architect

Job Title: Platform Architect Location: New York, NY Work Arrangement: Hybrid Employment Type: Contract Duration: 6 months Domain: Insurance | Enterprise Platform Engineering Pay Rate: $55.00/hr W2 | $66.00/hr C2C Application Deadline: October 20, 2026 SKILLS REQUIRED Primary (Must-Have): • Principal-Level Full-Stack Engineering | Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering | Kubernetes | Containers | Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) • Hands-on GenAI and Agentic Engineering | LLM and Agent Runtimes | Multi-Agent Orchestration | Python | Go / Java / TypeScript Secondary (Good to Have): • Cloud Depth with GCP (GKE, Vertex AI, IAM) | Security & Governance by Design | PII/PHI Handling | AI-Assisted Engineering Tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) POSITION OVERVIEW Operating within the enterprise insurance technology division and reporting to the Head of Engineering, this senior individual contributor role serves as the technical anchor for the platform, designing reference architecture and solving complex architectural challenges to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable cloud operations. ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Own the paved road and reference architecture | Establish reusable registration patterns across assets including metadata, I/O contracts, execution binding, and governance constraints. • Personally build critical system components | Develop lifecycle registries, AI control-plane services integrated with enterprise gateways, prompt-injection scanning, and multi-vendor cost attribution. • Build agent-building frameworks and scaffolds | Create patterns and sub-agent topologies to accelerate agent deployment and support automated end-to-end builder agents. • Enforce software portability and compliance | Containerize all services, standardize telemetry on OpenTelemetry, table formats on Delta UniForm/Iceberg, and open-weight serving on vLLM/Ray/DeepSpeed. • Establish high engineering standards | Drive rigorous testing, CI/CD, and security-by-default practices | Review complex designs and pull requests while mentoring senior engineering team members. BENEFITS Medical | Dental | Vision | 401(k) EEOC Compliance: We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. DISCLAIMER AI Usage Policy: Pacer Group uses AI to assist in screening applications. Final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters based on qualifications and experience.