Principal Architect, AI & Platform

📋 Job Overview

This is a hands-on senior technical role with multiple connected responsibilities. You will provide architectural guidance across our engineering teams by ensuring services integrate cleanly and evolve without accumulating debt, and you will lead the design and delivery of AI-augmented capabilities: features that help auditors work faster, identify more issues, and make better-supported decisions. Alongside this, you will collaborate with various teams throughout the organization to champion, guide, and support implementations of new AI technologies and their associated processes.

🏢 About Council Capital

Council Capital is a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, managing over $350 million in committed capital. We invest in lower middle market healthcare companies where we see the potential to scale purpose and performance. Our investments span control and minority positions in businesses with enterprise values between $10 million and $100 million. What sets us apart is the Council Model—a proven framework that surrounds founders and leadership teams with a powerful combination of support: our CEO Council of seasoned operators, our Strategic Healthcare Investors who bring real-world insight and access, and our internal Value Creation Team, focused on enabling growth through talent, systems, and strategy. At Council Capital, we’re not just backing companies—we’re helping build enduring businesses that improve lives and shape the future of healthcare.

🎯 The Role

This is a hands-on senior technical role with multiple connected responsibilities. You will provide architectural guidance across our engineering teams by ensuring services integrate cleanly and evolve without accumulating debt, and you will lead the design and delivery of AI-augmented capabilities: features that help auditors work faster, identify more issues, and make better-supported decisions. Alongside this, you will collaborate with various teams throughout the organization to champion, guide, and support implementations of new AI technologies and their associated processes.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver AI-augmented capabilities that improve auditor effectiveness, increase operational efficiency, and support better-informed PI and FWA decisions.
• Collaborate across engineering to define and maintain architectural standards the team follows, including API contracts, integration patterns, data flow, and security boundaries.
• Develop and maintain system architecture diagrams.
• Define reusable internal software assets such as shared libraries, APIs, and data contracts that engineering and data science teams can build on.
• Work with compliance and security to define AI data governance policies.
• Evaluate all engineering and AI tooling and vendors pragmatically.
• Build appropriate evaluation and bias testing methodologies.
• Work with sales and operations to understand their current processes and recommended areas where AI can augment and assist them.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ years architecting SaaS products with cloud-native technologies.
• Extensive experience in cloud-native design on AWS and/or Azure.
• Proven track record of integrating and building AI into platforms and applications.
• Hands-on familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Hands-on experience with packaged agent runtimes (e.g., Bedrock AgentCore or Azure AI Foundry).
• Experience designing logically multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Strong software fundamentals combined with ongoing learning of emerging AI patterns and protocols.
• Proven ability to communicate adeptly with internal and external stakeholders.
• Sound judgment to instinctively build for extensibility, security, and sane deployment.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in payment integrity and regulated domains.
• Experience with bias and performance testing.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Not specified