Position Summary
The Senior Technical Architect is a senior individual contributor who operates with broad autonomy and organization-level impact. This role is responsible for defining and driving the architecture, design, and delivery of cloud-native, full stack applications supporting connected and IoT-enabled healthcare systems.
This Architect will influence multiple teams, establish technical standards, mentor engineers, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with long-term business strategy.
What You'll do as a Senior Technical Architect
- ✓Architect, design, and develop large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
- ✓Lead cloud architecture and deployment strategies leveraging Azure services such as App Services, Azure Functions, AKS, and managed data platforms.
- ✓Design and develop backend services, APIs, and data models using ASP.NET Core and cloud-native patterns.
- ✓Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.
- ✓Define and evolve reference architectures, design patterns, and coding standards adopted across teams.
- ✓Evaluate alternative architectures and technologies that best fit the business requirements and service KPIs.
- ✓Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services you build and drive the team’s DevOps culture.
- ✓Drive and uphold the best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.
- ✓Partner with embedded, product, quality, and security teams to ensure cohesive system-level designs.
- ✓Mentor senior and junior engineers, raising technical capability and engineering maturity across the organization.
- ✓Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the product’s business needs.
What You'll do as a Senior Technical Architect- Cont'd
Technical Excellence
- ✓Solves highly complex and ambiguous problems with scalable, maintainable solutions.
- ✓Establishes technical standards and best practices adopted across teams.
Strategic Thinking
- ✓Balances near-term delivery with long-term architectural sustainability.
- ✓Anticipates future platform and technology needs.
Execution and Accountability
- ✓Takes ownership of outcomes across the full system lifecycle.
- ✓Delivers high-impact solutions with minimal oversight.
Influence and Mentorship
- ✓Mentors engineers at multiple levels and raises the overall engineering bar.
- ✓Serves as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership.
The Experience, Abilities and Skills Needed
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related software or information sciences field. Master’s degree preferred.
- ✓12+ years of technical software engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#, JavaScript/Typescript, React, .NET / .NET Core, SQL.
- ✓8+ years of experience with depth of knowledge and understanding of software architecture, design tradeoffs, and practices of mature DevOps culture
- ✓6+ years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
- ✓Experience in Azure environments and cloud design patterns.
- ✓Experience integrating cloud applications with IoT systems and connected devices.
- ✓Deep experience building and operating cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- ✓Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- ✓Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and projects.
- ✓Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred
- ✓Experience working in a regulated industry such as healthcare or medical devices.
- ✓Hands-on experience with Azure IoT Hub, Digital Twins, or similar IoT platforms.
- ✓Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes / AKS.
- ✓Knowledge of cloud security, identity, and access management (e.g., Azure AD).
- ✓Advanced degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
- ✓Relevant certifications in cloud architecture or software security.
What STERIS Offers
At STERIS, we invest in our employees and their families for the long term! STERIS wouldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. We share our success together with you by rewarding you for your hard work and achievements.
Here is just a brief overview of what we offer
- ✓Competitive Pay
- ✓Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays.
- ✓Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
- ✓401(k) with a company match
- ✓Long/Short term disability coverage
- ✓Parental Leave
- ✓Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
- ✓Continued training and educations programs
- ✓Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career
- ✓#LI-KS1 #LI-Hybrid
Pay range for this opportunity is $140,000.00 - $155,000.00. This position is also eligible for bonus participation and long-term incentives..
Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.
STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits
Open until position is filled.
STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.