Software Architect

About Us

Abacus Insights is transforming how data and AI work for health plans. Our mission is simple: make healthcare data usable, so the people responsible for care and cost decisions can act faster, with confidence.

As the AI and Data Platform for Payer Intelligence, we help health plans break down data silos to create a single, trusted data foundation. That foundation powers better decisions—so plans can improve outcomes, reduce waste, and deliver better experiences for members and providers alike. Backed by $100M from top investors, we're tackling big challenges in an industry that's ready for change. Our platform enables GenAI use cases by delivering clean, connected, and reliable healthcare data to support automation, prioritization, and decision workflows—and it's why we are leading the way.

Our innovation begins with people. We are bold, curious, and collaborative—because the best ideas come from working together. We embrace the thoughtful use of AI and automation to drive innovation and efficiency, and we look for individuals who are curious and adaptable—those excited to leverage emerging technologies to enhance how we work—while keeping human insight, connection, and our clients at the center of every decision.

Ready to make an impact? Join us and let's build the future together.

About the Role

Abacus is scaling fast – more Data Solutions applications, more agent-assisted engineering, more complexity worth getting right. We’re creating this role to put a strong technical voice at the center of that growth: someone who can take sharp architectural judgment and turn it into standards the whole organization can build on with confidence.

We’re looking for an experienced Software Architect to help set the technical vision for how Abacus builds, secures, and scales its healthcare data platform & data applications platform. This is an individual-contributor role, not a management track – you’ll be the architecture guru and evangelist for our platform, translating business and customer needs into target-state architectures across data, applications, cloud, and agent-assisted engineering, and sharing your expertise with engineers and Solution Architects as you go.

We’re excited to meet architects at a range of career stages. Whether you’re a mid-level seasoned architect ready to step into broader scope, a senior architect with a track record of leading complex designs, or a principal-level leader who has shaped architecture across an organization, we’d love to hear from you. We’ll meet you where you are and shape the scope of the role to the level where you can make the biggest impact.

Our platform is built for health plans, and we’re especially excited to hear from architects who’ve worked with healthcare data.

You’ll build the reusable application foundation – application blueprints, integration contracts, and production-readiness gates – that lets Data Solutions applications move fast without reinventing the wheel every time, create re-usable assets. And as agent-driven development becomes a bigger part of how we ship, you’ll be the one turning architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that let AI-assisted output meet the same bar as our best human-written code – putting you at the center of how Abacus builds software for years to come.

You’ll bring enough depth to guide decisions across data, application, integration, cloud, and agentic development, while staying pragmatic about fit-for-purpose architecture and delivery constraints. You won’t do it alone – you’ll partner closely with Product Engineering, our Principal Engineers, AI Engineering, Security, and Client Solutions, bringing architecture to life from concept through production, not just on a whiteboard.

Your day to day

The scope of your work will scale with your level. Mid-level architects will contribute to and own defined areas of this work, while senior and principal architects will lead it across teams and the platform.

Core architecture leadership

Own or contribute to the reference architecture for Abacus’s core platform – data ingestion, transformation, distribution, and serving – partnering with Principal Engineering where ingestion and distribution ownership is shared, and with Product Engineering on application and service layers.

Define and apply architecture standards for scaling, high availability/disaster recovery design, serverless patterns, and multi-tenant SaaS architecture across our AWS and Azure environments.

Design with HITRUST and GovRamp compliance in mind, partnering with Security and Compliance so designs meet audit and control expectations from the outset rather than as an afterthought.

Data applications and platform architecture

Design scalable architectures for data solutions and their analytical and operational serving layers – in our world, spanning payer claims, membership, provider, clinical, lab, and pharmacy/Rx domains.

Apply FHIR-based interoperability patterns and healthcare data standards where relevant to product or client implementations.

Establish data contracts, lineage, quality controls, metadata, and integration patterns across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, in coordination with Data Engineering.

Application architecture and standards

Define standard user-management capabilities – tenant setup, roles, permissions, and admin experiences – as reusable patterns instead of something each team reinvents.

Partner with UX/Design on front-end and design-system standards that keep our applications consistent and accessible.

Agent-driven development and AI-enabled engineering

Translate approved architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that our ADD Harness and agent-assisted development workflows can consume directly.

Evaluate agent-generated code and designs against architectural standards, and help build the scoring and review mechanisms that let us scale the quality of agent-produced merge requests across engineering teams.

Partner with AI Engineering on semantic/context layers, agent interfaces (MCP and A2A), retrieval patterns, AI gateways, evaluation, traceability, and governed model access.

Architecture governance, knowledge sharing, and influence

Be an active contributor to Abacus’s Architecture and Data Guilds – introducing ideas, taking them to realization, and helping drive a culture of innovation through hackathons and beyond.

Share your expertise through pairing on designs, reviews, and pilots – and, as you grow in the role, mentor engineers and Solution Architects, building architectural capability across the team rather than concentrating it in one person.

Help establish lightweight architecture review mechanisms that protect critical standards without slowing delivery, measuring adoption through signals like reuse, exception volume, and escaped design defects.

Production readiness and operability

Ensure every architecture package includes deployment topology, support model, rollback strategy, and operational telemetry, partnering with DevOps/Platform and Security on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability. Help to establish quality metrics like DORA.

Hold your designs to a resiliency bar appropriate for a platform of Abacus’s scale, and help teams reason through trade-offs between delivery speed and operational risk.

The impact you’ll have

In your first 6–12 months, you’ll leave a clear mark on how Abacus builds software:

Deliver or contribute to a reference architecture for Data Solutions applications that teams adopt from day one – a shared blueprint, API/data contracts, and starter implementations that let new work move faster instead of starting from scratch.

Stand up the skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that let our ADD Harness and agent-assisted workflows produce work that meets our architectural bar – a foundation that scales with the team,