Java Microservices Developer Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Job Summary:
Netsmart is a leading company in healthcare technology, seeking a Principal Architect to define and guide the architecture of their platforms and products. This role involves high-level strategic architectural leadership and hands-on engineering expertise across modern cloud technologies, with a focus on delivering scalable solutions aligned with the company's mission.
Responsibilities:
• Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise-wide architectural strategies and multi-year platform roadmaps.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and reusable patterns ensuring consistency across engineering teams.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of modern cloud technologies including Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, serverless, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Champion the integration of AI, ML, and data-driven capabilities into Netsmart’s product ecosystem.
• Promote and provide hands-on engineering support through code reviews, design reviews, prototyping, and reference implementations.
• Deliver deep architectural guidance across Java,Postgres QL .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, Azure, and AWS cloud services.
• Build and validate technical proofs-of-concept to accelerate innovation and reduce delivery risk.
• Support delivery teams in designing scalable, performant, cloud-native systems.
• Promote an AI-first, data-driven mindset across engineering and product teams.
• Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to define modern data architectures, pipelines, and governance.
• Drive adoption of emerging AI/ML technologies and frameworks that enhance user experience and operational intelligence.
• Champion modern engineering practices rooted in data insights and model-driven design.
• Partner with Executive Business Leadership to translate business goals into well-architected solutions and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Collaborate with DevOps, UX, cloud infrastructure teams, and engineering leaders to ensure alignment on delivery and architecture.
• Communicate complex technical strategies and tradeoffs to executive leadership in clear, digestible terms.
• Support teams throughout the SDLC with architectural oversight, technical guidance, and mentorship.
• Identify risks and constraints early and guide engineering toward scalable, practical solutions.
• Lead modernization initiatives including cloud migration, legacy system decomposition, domain-driven design, and API-first architecture.
• Ensure architectures meet standards for performance, reliability, interoperability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Maintain architectural documentation, technical decision logs, and detailed system diagrams.
• Define and enforce standards for coding practices, integration patterns, cloud deployment, and service design.
• Promote excellence in application architecture, technical debt management, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability systems.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Extensive experience as a Principal Architect, Senior Architect, or Principal Engineer building enterprise-scale systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience with industry standard technologies including Java, Postgres QL, C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure, and SQL Server.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services, serverless computing, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct high-quality code reviews and guide engineering best practices.
• Experience designing data-driven systems and integrating AI/ML into applications.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Must be onsite and work full-time at our Overland Park, KS office.
Preferred:
• Experience in healthcare technology or regulated industries.
• Azure or AWS architecture certifications.
• Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, event-driven systems, and large-scale data platforms.
• Track record leading cloud modernization or AI/ML-driven initiatives.
Company:
Netsmart is a healthcare software company that assists in delivering whole-person, value-based care. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in Overland Park, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.