Lead Software Development Engineer

• Define and drive the technology vision, architecture strategy, and modernization roadmap for enterprise platforms
• Lead architecture reviews, establish technology standards, and ensure solutions meet scalability, security, reliability, performance, and maintainability principles
• Drive adoption of Azure, AWS, or GCP, containerization, Kubernetes, Dev Sec Ops , and infrastructure-as-code
• Architect secure and scalable integrations using REST APIs, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures, service buses, and healthcare interoperability standards
• Develop multi-year architecture roadmaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide investment decisions
• Provide architectural guidance across engineering teams and foster engineering excellence through design reviews, best practices, and technical governance
• Champion AI/GenAI, advanced analytics, automation, and modern engineering practices
• Promote reliability, security, performance optimization, continuous improvement, and operational governance
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and business leaders and communicate architectural decisions to executive stakeholders
• Evaluate technology platforms, cloud services, and strategic vendor partnerships
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory, security, privacy, compliance, healthcare, and enterprise governance requirements
• Influence enterprise technology direction and drive digital transformation initiatives
• Deliver scalable LLM, NLP, and RAG solutions
• Establish secure, compliant, and reliable AI operations through MLOps/LLMOps and responsible AI practices
• Develop POCs, solve technical problems, establish architectural standards, and influence technology decisions across initiatives
• Work with Ontada’s iKnowMed G2 platform and supporting oncology technology solutions

• Degree or equivalent and typically 10+ years of relevant experience; fewer years required with relevant Master’s or Doctorate qualifications
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of architecture and technical leadership across complex, distributed systems
• Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale enterprise platforms
• Strong experience with REST APIs, API gateways, event-driven architectures, Kafka, messaging, and enterprise integration patterns
• Hands-on expertise in Azure, AWS, or GCP, including Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and resiliency patterns
• Proven experience designing and operating secure, scalable, highly available, multi-tenant applications
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, test automation, architecture governance, and engineering best practices
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, caching, search technologies, and analytics platforms
• Ability to lead architecture decisions, mentor engineering teams, and influence stakeholders through technical leadership
• Familiarity with AI/GenAI technologies including LLMs, Prompt Engineering, and RAG architectures
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and regulated environments
• Healthcare interoperability knowledge including FHIR, HL7, and SMART on FHIR is a plus
• Master’s degree in a relevant technical field is strongly preferred
• Prior healthcare IT, clinical software, or highly regulated environment experience is strongly preferred
• Experience modernizing legacy enterprise systems is a plus
• Experience managing third-party vendors and partners
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States full-time without employer support or sponsorship now or in the future

Demonstrates extensive expertise in defining technology vision and architecture strategy for enterprise platforms, with a strong focus on cloud services, security, and compliance. Proven ability to lead architecture…