{"id":4139473,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dotmatics-principal-software-architect-luma","title":"Principal Software Architect | Luma","company":{"id":3788,"name":"Dotmatics","domain":"dotmatics.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dotmatics","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Boston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":173400,"max":234600,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":234600},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GraphPad Prism","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"OPC UA","optional":false},{"name":"Podman","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Scala","optional":false},{"name":"Spark","optional":false},{"name":"TeamCity","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T03:52:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T04:53:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Our Why At Dotmatics \nAt Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.\nWe have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.\nWe have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform - best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.\nScientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.\nShaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics \nOur global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.\nYou’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.\nWe are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together. \nWhat do we need\nWe are looking for an experienced Principal Engineering Architect to help shape the architecture of Dotmatics Luma, our next-generation, multi-tenant, AI-powered data management and workflow automation platform for multimodal scientific discovery. You will design and refine the AWS systems that deploy Luma efficiently to customers.\nAs a Principal Software Engineering Architect, you will be a key driver in delivering Luma to customers. This role will be an influential leader and advisor to the Engineering and Product teams. You will provide deep technical expertise on our current technologies, and technical leadership that promotes new ideas and improves how we build and release Luma, including how instruments, scientific data, and the AI agent at the core of the platform connect.\nIn this role you will get to\nSupport and drive the end-to-end architecture of Luma, from instrument connectivity and data ingestion through to the platform services and AI agent experience\nInfluence technology choices for the platform\nDesign solutions that are enterprise scalable and maintainable, with the data isolation and auditability that regulated scientific customers\nCollaborate on architectural principles, frameworks, best practices, and standards, including how the AI agent and extension points such as MCP connect securely to platform services\nDrive strategic technology initiatives with Product Managers, other Architects, and Engineers\nBe hands-on in developing and delivering Luma, this includes prototyping and guiding the implementation of components inside of Luma.\nHelp improve developer experience and software lifecycle by proposing tools and pipelines that increase the quality of the software development experience.\nAdvise the product team in clarifying requirements for deploying Luma into customer clouds, including multi-tenant and regulated-environment needs\nWork with customer cloud teams.\nFacilitate the architecture processes, including architecture reviews and documentation\nMentor other software engineers on the team\nShape projects in a timely manner to established architecture patterns\nWork in a consultative fashion to improve communication, collaboration, and alignment among teams inside and outside the organization\nAnalyse and provide feedback on Luma product strategy\nWe are looking for people who have a BSc in Computer Science and 10+ equivalent, with deep technical expertise in engineering architecture and engineering design. You will have expert knowledge of building, releasing, and maintaining a complex scientific enterprise software platform.\nThe Key Skills we are looking for:\nDeep understanding of modern cloud software architecture, including multi-tenant platforms\nSystems design and development, with a solid understanding of application development best practices and core enterprise applications\nDeep knowledge of AWS services\nKnowledge of cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Kafka\nWorking technical knowledge of integration strategies, including web services and APIs\nExperience setting up agentic harnesses for code generation\nInfluential communication with core and cross-functional teams\nInfrastructure-as-code solutions (CloudFormation, Terraform)\nSoftware containerization concepts (Docker, Podman)\nCI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, CodePipeline)\nKnowledge of networking concepts in cloud environments\nSoftware development lifecycle processes and version control\nModern back-end JavaScript and Node.js, Python\nBusiness requirements gathering and analysis, strategic planning, and project planning and management\nEngineering evaluation principles and practice\nYou may also have:\nInstrument integration and scientific data ingestion (e.g. SiLA, OPC-UA)\nApache Spark, Databricks, or comparable data platforms\nSecuring AI agent integrations (permissions, sandboxing, prompt injection defense)\nExperience using research informatics software and tools\nScala\nTotal Rewards \nDotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition. \nCertain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.\nOther Total Rewards Offered\nMedical, Dental, Vision, Insurance\nHealth Spending Accounts\nWellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks) \nCompany-paid Life and Disability Insurance\n401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)\nFlexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)\nThis is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.\nBase Pay Range\n$173,400—$234,600 USD\nResearch shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply - we’d love to hear from you.\nBy submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information. \nDotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. 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