Distinguished Engineer, Enterprise Solutions Engineering
$175,100–$334,750 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead system design and architecture reviews for enterprise applications, platforms, and shared services, translating business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient end-to-end designs. Evaluate logical architectures against approved patterns for ingress, secure hub routing, API gateway usage, and identity management across Azure, GCP, AWS, and on-prem environments. Guide engineering teams on hosting models, assess resiliency tiers including RTO, RPO, and operational recovery readiness, and provide gap assessments with remediation plans. Create reference architectures and reusable blueprints while partnering with Security, Compliance, and Platform teams on standards adoption and risk-based decisions. Mentor engineers in system design and resiliency engineering. Support AI-enabled automation of architecture reviews using structured rules and knowledge-based recommendations.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture
- Deep expertise in system design for large-scale enterprise applications, service-oriented systems, and distributed platforms
- Deep expertise in system engineering across infrastructure, networking, security, application, integration, and operations domains
- Strong experience designing and reviewing cloud-native and hybrid architectures across Azure, GCP, AWS, and/or on-prem environments
- Strong understanding of enterprise security patterns including edge ingress, load balancing, API gateways, network segmentation, firewall controls, identity management and private service connectivity
- Strong knowledge of resiliency engineering, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, replication, failover, and operational recovery planning
- Experience with Kubernetes, web-hosted application platforms, APIs, managed data services, and service-to-service integration patterns
- Ability to evaluate ambiguous business and technical requirements, identify architectural risk, and provide clear engineering guidance
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready architecture assessments and technical recommendations
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated enterprise environment
- Experience with enterprise identity and authorization patterns such as Azure AD or Entra ID, managed identity, service principals, OAuth 2.0, and external identity providers
- Experience with API management platforms such as Azure API Management, Apigee X, Kong, or comparable gateway technologies
- Experience with architecture governance, approved service catalogues, and cloud adoption guardrails
- Experience building or supporting AI-enabled engineering workflows, architecture assessment platforms, or recommendation automation capabilities
- Familiarity with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge-driven advisory systems
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise workflow and documentation platforms
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