Senior Software Architect-Data Platform and AI

Summary

Join PointClickCare as a Senior Software Architect and contribute to the development of robust, scalable platform systems. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into high-performance software solutions. Drive technical feasibility analysis, mitigating risks, and selecting appropriate technologies. Lead and mentor engineering teams, ensuring successful implementation of architectural designs. Define the strategic architecture vision, aligning software architecture with the organization's technology strategy. Make a real impact on healthcare across North America by working on large-scale, data-intensive platform systems. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, real-time data processing, and platform design patterns.

Requirements

• You can relate your solid experience in designing large-scale, data-driven, distributed platform systems, and collaborating with a team to support their development and deployment
• You have experience developing and deploying complex, cloud-native platforms in Azure or another public cloud provider
• You are deeply familiar with many elements of our technology stack, which includes Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Avro, JavaScript, MySQL, and Gradle
• You have prior experience with high-throughput healthcare information systems using HL7 or FHIR, or analogous integrations in other domains
• You bring deep knowledge of big data ecosystem technologies and have hands-on experience building data pipelines and real-time event-driven architectures
• You understand how to design platform foundations that enable machine learning workflows, model serving, and data observability, and you’re familiar with modern AI infrastructure patterns
• You successfully manage system complexity through modularization and specification of maintainable boundaries between components
• You demonstrate exceptional analytical, planning, and diagnostic abilities
• You use active listening skills and clear communication in speaking, writing, and diagramming
• Your interpersonal skills allow you to build consensus and promote understanding and adoption of architectural strategy
• You recognize and apply object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and architectural patterns
• You couple new research and data with your experience and intuition to find answers that are innovative yet pragmatic

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex and ambiguous business requirements into robust, scalable platform and data architecture designs
• Assess the technical feasibility of new projects and help engineering teams solve their most difficult technical challenges, particularly in areas of big data pipelines, stream processing, and system scalability
• Understand and contribute to the long-term platform and data architecture strategy and teach others about it
• Design for non-functional requirements including maintainability, efficiency, scalability, observability, availability, and security
• Estimate resources required for a proposed design and optimize plans for cost, performance, or other attributes
• Help to review design proposals from others
• Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures
• Research new software, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations and proofs of concept. Stay current with advances in AI infrastructure, big data processing technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake), and modern data platform architectures
• Define best practices, patterns, and guidelines in coding and system design
• Review designs and code to ensure its compliance with best practices and coding standards
• Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and consultation to other architects and engineering teams to ensure the successful execution of software projects
• Analyze legacy code and plan for enhancements to maintainability and other non-functional requirements

Benefits

• Retirement Plan Matching
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Wellness Support Programs and Resources
• Parental & Caregiver Leaves
• Fertility & Adoption Support
• Continuous Development Support Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Allyship and Inclusion Communities