Platform Architect

**Company Overview**:
NationsBenefits is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America and a Healthcare Fintech provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and member engagement solutions. We partner with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions that drive growth, improve outcomes, reduce costs, and bring value to their members.

Through our comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, fintech payment platforms, and member engagement solutions, we help health plans deliver high-quality benefits to their members that address the social determinants of health and improve member health outcomes and satisfaction.

Our compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary technology systems, and premier service delivery model allow our health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members.

We offer a fulfilling work environment that attracts top talent and encourages all associates to contribute to delivering premier service to internal and external customers alike. Our goal is to transform the healthcare industry for the better We provide career advancement opportunities from within the organization across multiple locations in the US, South America, and India.

**Description**:
**Key Responsibilities**
- **Governance & Change Management**:

- Oversee platform governance processes, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and standards.
- Evolve and implement innovative change management processes to ensure smooth, risk-managed deployment of new features and platform updates.
- Collaborate with teams to establish and enforce change control and release policies while reducing impact on release cadence and developer flow.
- Guide pipeline development to automate and streamline the governance process.
- ** CI/CD Automation & Release Management**:

- Design, implement, and optimize continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure automated, rapid, and safe deployment of software.
- Develop and maintain release automation strategies and platforms to improve the speed and quality of product releases.
- Work with DevOps teams to streamline deployment pipelines and reduce manual intervention.
- ** Collaboration & Leadership**:

- Work closely with cross-functional teams including product, development, and operations to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Drive innovation and modern patterns in the platform organization, enabling rapid, compliant, and low-touch release cadences.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior architects, developers, and other stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

**Required Skills & Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
- ** Extensive experience** (8+ years) in platform architecture, with a strong focus on governance, change management, and release automation in support of development teams.
- Expertise in **CI/CD automation** practices and tools like **Azure DevOps**, **GitHub Actions**, and **Argo Workflows/CD** with a proven track record of implementing and optimizing pipelines.
- Strong experience with **Azure Cloud** services, architecture, and deployment strategies, specifically supporting AKS and Azure Web Apps at scale.
- Deep technical knowledge of **.Net** and/or **Java** programming ecosystems, with the ability to leverage both in cloud-based architectures.
- Solid experience with **Agile methodologies** and working in fast-paced, iterative development environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Proven leadership experience, including mentoring and guiding technical teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Knowledge of **Modern Change Management** practices, like the DevOps Automated Governance Reference Architecture, In-Toto Attestations, SLSA, Grafaes, or other enabling technologies.
- Experience with **Internal Development Platforms** and designing & implementing supporting tooling, like Backstage, Cortex, or Port.
- Experience with **Kubernetes** and container orchestration technologies, like AKS, Helm, Cilium, and Istio.
- Familiarity with **DevOps** practices and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions & Advanced Security, Argo Workflows/CD, and Docker.
- Experience with **microservices architecture** and implementing it at scale in Azure or other cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of **Security Best Practices** for cloud-based solutions.