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Our mission is simple: make healthcare data usable, so the people responsible for care and cost decisions can act faster, with confidence.\nAs the AI and Data Platform for Payer Intelligence, we help health plans break down data silos to create a single, trusted data foundation. That foundation powers better decisions-so plans can improve outcomes, reduce waste, and deliver better experiences for members and providers alike. Backed by $100M from top investors, we're tackling big challenges in an industry that's ready for change. Our platform enables GenAI use cases by delivering clean, connected, and reliable healthcare data to support automation, prioritization, and decision workflows-and it's why we are leading the way.\nOur innovation begins with people. We are bold, curious, and collaborative-because the best ideas come from working together. We embrace the thoughtful use of AI and automation to drive innovation and efficiency, and we look for individuals who are curious and adaptable-those excited to leverage emerging technologies to enhance how we work-while keeping human insight, connection, and our clients at the center of every decision.\nReady to make an impact? Join us and let's build the future together.\nAbout the Role\nAbacus is scaling fast - more Data Solutions applications, more agent-assisted engineering, more complexity worth getting right. We’re creating this role to put a strong technical voice at the center of that growth: someone who can take sharp architectural judgment and turn it into standards the whole organization can build on with confidence.\nWe’re looking for an experienced Software Architect to help set the technical vision for how Abacus builds, secures, and scales its healthcare data platform & data applications platform. This is an individual-contributor role, not a management track - you’ll be the architecture guru and evangelist for our platform, translating business and customer needs into target-state architectures across data, applications, cloud, and agent-assisted engineering, and sharing your expertise with engineers and Solution Architects as you go.\nWe’re excited to meet architects at a range of career stages. Whether you’re a mid-level seasoned architect ready to step into broader scope, a senior architect with a track record of leading complex designs, or a principal-level leader who has shaped architecture across an organization, we’d love to hear from you. We’ll meet you where you are and shape the scope of the role to the level where you can make the biggest impact.\nOur platform is built for health plans, and we’re especially excited to hear from architects who’ve worked with healthcare data.\nYou’ll build the reusable application foundation - application blueprints, integration contracts, and production-readiness gates - that lets Data Solutions applications move fast without reinventing the wheel every time, create re-usable assets. And as agent-driven development becomes a bigger part of how we ship, you’ll be the one turning architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that let AI-assisted output meet the same bar as our best human-written code - putting you at the center of how Abacus builds software for years to come.\nYou’ll bring enough depth to guide decisions across data, application, integration, cloud, and agentic development, while staying pragmatic about fit-for-purpose architecture and delivery constraints. You won’t do it alone - you’ll partner closely with Product Engineering, our Principal Engineers, AI Engineering, Security, and Client Solutions, bringing architecture to life from concept through production, not just on a whiteboard.\nYour day to day\nThe scope of your work will scale with your level. Mid-level architects will contribute to and own defined areas of this work, while senior and principal architects will lead it across teams and the platform.\nCore architecture leadership\nOwn or contribute to the reference architecture for Abacus’s core platform - data ingestion, transformation, distribution, and serving - partnering with Principal Engineering where ingestion and distribution ownership is shared, and with Product Engineering on application and service layers.\nDefine and apply architecture standards for scaling, high availability/disaster recovery design, serverless patterns, and multi-tenant SaaS architecture across our AWS and Azure environments.\nDesign with HITRUST and GovRamp compliance in mind, partnering with Security and Compliance so designs meet audit and control expectations from the outset rather than as an afterthought.\nData applications and platform architecture\nDesign scalable architectures for data solutions and their analytical and operational serving layers - in our world, spanning payer claims, membership, provider, clinical, lab, and pharmacy/Rx domains.\nApply FHIR-based interoperability patterns and healthcare data standards where relevant to product or client implementations.\nEstablish data contracts, lineage, quality controls, metadata, and integration patterns across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, in coordination with Data Engineering.\nApplication architecture and standards\nDefine standard user-management capabilities - tenant setup, roles, permissions, and admin experiences - as reusable patterns instead of something each team reinvents.\nPartner with UX/Design on front-end and design-system standards that keep our applications consistent and accessible.\nAgent-driven development and AI-enabled engineering\nTranslate approved architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that our ADD Harness and agent-assisted development workflows can consume directly.\nEvaluate agent-generated code and designs against architectural standards, and help build the scoring and review mechanisms that let us scale the quality of agent-produced merge requests across engineering teams.\nPartner with AI Engineering on semantic/context layers, agent interfaces (MCP and A2A), retrieval patterns, AI gateways, evaluation, traceability, and governed model access.\nArchitecture governance, knowledge sharing, and influence\nBe an active contributor to Abacus’s Architecture and Data Guilds - introducing ideas, taking them to realization, and helping drive a culture of innovation through hackathons and beyond.\nShare your expertise through pairing on designs, reviews, and pilots - and, as you grow in the role, mentor engineers and Solution Architects, building architectural capability across the team rather than concentrating it in one person.\nHelp establish lightweight architecture review mechanisms that protect critical standards without slowing delivery, measuring adoption through signals like reuse, exception volume, and escaped design defects.\nProduction readiness and operability\nEnsure every architecture package includes deployment topology, support model, rollback strategy, and operational telemetry, partnering with DevOps/Platform and Security on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability. Help to establish quality metrics like DORA.\nHold your designs to a resiliency bar appropriate for a platform of Abacus’s scale, and help teams reason through trade-offs between delivery speed and operational risk.\nThe impact you’ll have\nIn your first 6-12 months, you’ll leave a clear mark on how Abacus builds software:\nDeliver or contribute to a reference architecture for Data Solutions applications that teams adopt from day one - a shared blueprint, API/data contracts, and starter implementations that let new work move faster instead of starting from scratch.\nStand up the skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that let our ADD Harness and agent-assisted workflows produce work that meets our architectural bar - a foundation that scales with the team, not just with you.\nBuild the architecture decision records, non-functional requirements, and operational-readiness checklists that give every release clear evidence it’s production-ready - deployment, observability, support, and rollback accounted for before go-live.\nStrengthen architecture capability across the team through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing - leaving Abacus with stronger architectural judgment than it had when you started.\nWhat you bring to the team\nSoftware engineering experience (typically 8+ years, with more depth expected at the senior and principal levels), including significant time in architecture roles designing and guiding complex cloud, data, integration, and application solutions from discovery through production operation.\nA full-stack engineering background - hands-on experience across services and APIs, data, and cloud infrastructure - that gives you the credibility to guide architecture end to end.\nA proven ability to establish standards - you’ve helped define architecture patterns and guardrails and gotten teams to adopt them through influence and collaboration. At the senior and principal levels, this extends to leading adoption across teams and mentoring others.\nDeep, hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure), including containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes/K8s, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, OpenShift, or comparable), Git-based CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and secure production operations.\nContinuously identify opportunities to convert custom implementations into reusable platform capabilities.\nDrive standardization without sacrificing business agility.\nShape the long-term technical foundation while balancing immediate delivery needs.\nStrong experience with a modern data platform and distributed data processing (e.g., Databricks and Spark, or Snowflake) and with modern application and service architectures (API-first services, with exposure to Python), identity and authorization, and multi-tenant SaaS patterns.\nWorking knowledge of agentic and AI-enabled engineering - LLM-enabled applications, MCP/A2A, LangGraph or comparable orchestration, AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., Cursor), Agent Driven Development and Harnesses, retrieval/context patterns, evaluation, and responsible AI controls.\nExcellent communication skills - able to align senior business and technical stakeholders, explain trade-offs, and produce clear architecture artifacts for both technical and non-technical audiences.\nDirect experience building or maintaining reference architectures or developer platforms used by multiple teams.\nExperience defining architecture standards, rules, or evaluation rubrics for AI- or agent-assisted development workflows.\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nWhat we’d like to see, but not required\n Healthcare data experience (a big plus): familiarity with healthcare payer, provider, clinical, and claims data, and with FHIR or other healthcare data exchange standards. 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