Principal, Architectural Engineer

Gainwell Technologies is seeking a Principal Architectural Engineer to lead the architecture, engineering, governance, and support of secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions. The role drives cloud modernization, Kubernetes platform engineering, application modernization, and Medicaid and Health and Human Services technology initiatives while providing technical leadership, mentoring, and client solutioning support.

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead end-to-end architecture solutions supporting enterprise, healthcare, and government technology initiatives
• Develop target-state architectures aligned with business strategy, operational objectives, security requirements, and regulatory compliance obligations
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and engineering guardrails
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and provide final technical recommendations for complex architectural decisions
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for modernization, automation, AI adoption, and operational efficiency
• Architect solutions supporting Medicaid and Health and Human Services programs
• Provide technical leadership for Medicaid modernization, AWS cloud migration, and digital transformation initiatives
• Collaborate with business and product teams to translate healthcare requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Support architecture and integration designs involving:
• Design and govern enterprise cloud solutions across AWS and Azure environments
• Lead large-scale cloud migration, modernization, and platform transformation initiatives
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions
• Develop platform engineering standards supporting self-service provisioning, infrastructure automation, and cloud governance
• Establish reference architectures for multi-account cloud environments, landing zones, security controls, observability, and FinOps practices
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Kubernetes-based platform architecture and engineering
• Design, build, and govern enterprise Kubernetes environments with primary focus on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Develop architecture patterns supporting containerized workloads across production and non-production environments
• Lead platform engineering initiatives involving:
• Provide engineering leadership and operational guidance for Kubernetes production support environments
• Define and implement modern DevSecOps practices across engineering organizations
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipeline architectures supporting secure software delivery
• Lead automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), policy-as-code, and GitOps methodologies
• Establish engineering standards utilizing:
• Improve deployment reliability, velocity, and compliance through automation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure solutions incorporate security-by-design principles and comply with enterprise security requirements
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement identity management, vulnerability remediation, secure access controls, and compliance frameworks
• Architect resilient solutions supporting disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational stability objectives
• Support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, monitoring, incident management, and operational excellence practices
• Drive reduction of technical debt and operational risk across supported platforms
• Provide expert-level guidance to architects, engineers, technical leads, and product teams
• Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes operations, DevSecOps practices, and healthcare technology platforms
• Facilitate collaboration across engineering, operations, security, product, and business organizations
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex technical and architectural challenges
• Promote engineering excellence and continuous learning across the organization
• Support proposal development, technical sales engagements, and client solutioning activities
• Develop architecture responses for RFPs, RFIs, and strategic solution pursuits
• Create technical roadmaps, cost models, migration strategies, and modernization plans
• Present architecture solutions to executive leadership, clients, and stakeholders
• Partner with delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of proposed architectures

Requirements:

• An ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes/EKS platforms, DevSecOps practices, and Medicaid delivery systems, with demonstrated experience supporting large-scale Health and Human Services environments