Lead Software Development Engineer

Lead Software Development Engineer opening in Remote, US. Review duties, pay context, requirements, and prepare your application before continuing.

Details
EmployerJobtailor
LocationRemote, US
Salary$65,000–$95,000 per year
PublishedSep 9, 2026
Valid throughOct 19, 2026

Job Description


  • 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, DevSecOps, 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 job opening 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


Requirements



  • 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 DevSecOps, 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


Core Competencies


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 reviews, mentor engineering teams, and drive digital transformation initiatives in regulated environments.


Highest-signal resume keywords



  • Cloud Architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP)

  • Microservices and Cloud-Native Architecture

  • REST APIs and Event-Driven Architectures

  • DevSecOps and CI/CD Practices

  • Healthcare Interoperability Standards (FHIR, HL7)


Hard Skills



  • Java

  • Spring Boot

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • API Gateways

  • Kafka

  • Test Automation

  • Relational Databases

  • Analytics Platforms


Soft Skills



  • Technical Leadership

  • Mentoring

  • Stakeholder Communication

  • Influencing


Certifications & Qualifications



  • Master's Degree in Relevant Technical Field


Industry Keywords



  • Healthcare IT

  • Regulated Environments

  • Digital Transformation

  • Enterprise Governance

  • Compliance


Tools & Technologies



  • MLOps

  • LLMOps

  • Observability Tools

  • Messaging Platforms

  • Service Buses

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