Principal Platform Architect

June 6

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Karius is a life sciences company focused on saving lives from infectious diseases.

Life Sciences • Diagnostics • Genomics • Data Science • Bioinformatics

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Description

• Leading architectural projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget and quality/regulatory requirements. • Developing architectural blueprints, frameworks, and guidelines for Platform development and operation. • Ensuring the architecture meets technical and business requirements including security, performance, interoperability, and scalability. • Staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the Platform leverages the best technologies that fit the needs. • Articulating and presenting complex ideas clearly and effectively to technical and business audiences. • Developing, documenting, and organizing artifacts such as strategy, technical proposals and designs, and risk assessments. • Ensuring Karius’s R&D and engineering staff have the proper infrastructure, tools, and processes to be productive. • Ensuring the Karius Platform is cloud vendor agnostic, can be provisioned globally using a blueprint as code, and meets regional privacy and security rules and regulations. • Enable the Platform to be provisioned for non-Karius laboratories, enabling them to operate Karius products.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Statistics, Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, or a related engineering or science field. Ph.D. in these fields is a big plus. • 15+ years of engineering experience, 10 of which in leading the development and operation of distributed software systems and cloud-native platforms. • Proficient in infrastructure-as-code design and tools such as Terraform. • Deep knowledge and experience in design patterns, implementation, testing, and failure management of distributed systems and microservices. • Hands-on experience with cloud-native software development and operations approach; primarily using tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud services to run software services and data analytics jobs. • Proficient in industry security standards such as NIST CSF/SSDF with hands-on experience implementing and monitoring cloud security controls. • Experience with various code flow and DevOps approaches such as gitOps. • Lead architectural projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget and quality/regulatory requirements. • Develop architectural blueprints, frameworks, and guidelines for Platform development and operation. • Ensure the architecture meets technical and business requirements including security, performance, interoperability, and scalability. • Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the Platform leverages the best technologies that fit the needs. • Track record of building mutual trust, exerting cross-functional indirect influence, and leading change. • Articulate and present complex ideas clearly and effectively to technical and business audiences. • Develop, document, and organize artifacts such as strategy, technical proposals and designs, and risk assessments. • Experience in healthcare and life sciences especially developing medical devices is a big plus.

Benefits

• Travel required up to 10% • Subject to extended sitting and standing periods, vision to monitor, and moderate noise levels. • Work is performed in an office environment.