Principal Platform Architect

Company Description

Boston Insights is revolutionizing the clinical supply chain with BI-AXIOMan AI-powered, real-time command center that unifies data, decisions, and risk management across the clinical supply lifecycle. As we scale our SaaS based modular platform, we seek a strategic Principal Platform Architect to build our next-generation foundation.

Our SaaS-based solution, AXIOM, provides real-time visibility into the clinical supply network, enabling precise planning and early detection of supply risks. By leveraging our platform, clients can optimize demand and supply planning, minimize inventory waste by 1530%, and ensure timely delivery of drugs to clinical sites. With a focus on innovation in clinical supply chains, Boston Insights serves as a trusted partner in overcoming challenges such as delays, shortages, and rising costs.

The Role: Principal Platform Architect

The Principal Platform Architect is the strategic technical lead responsible for Architecture Governance, Compliance Implementation, and Security Strategy for the AXIOM platform. You will establish and enforce enterprise architectural standards and engineering directives.

This senior hybrid role requires toggling between hands-on engineering (building PoCs, reviewing Infrastructure as Code) and strategic leadership (representing security posture to enterprise clients, translating technical decisions to leadership). You will own engineering management, technical reviews for product and Infrastructure and collaborate with business stakeholders to build enterprise-grade platform.

Key Responsibilities

1. Multi-Tenant Platform Design & Data Engineering

Design and govern robust multi-tenant architecture with strict data isolation, security, and governance

across tenants.

Establish a scalable tenant onboarding/offboarding of tenants, and data sources.

Define strategies for shared vs dedicated infrastructure

Define, document, and enforce overarching architecture, engineering standards, & deployment directives

Architect future-proof foundation supporting AI-powered modules and advanced AI data pipelines

across frontend and backend

2. Metadata-Driven Framework Design

Architect metadata-driven ingestion and transformation frameworks

Enable configuration-based pipeline orchestration over code-heavy solutions

Design metadata tables for ingestion rules, transformation logic, data quality rules, and pipeline

orchestration

Enable future tenant support with minimal engineering effort

3. Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance

Design scalable, secure, high-performance enterprise data engineering frameworks with reusable

components for ingestion, transformation, quality, and lineage

Establish data architecture standards, governance models, and best practices aligned with the product

roadmap

Architect solutions using Data Lakehouse patterns, streaming/batch processing, and distributed

processing frameworks

Define data governance strategy encompassing metadata-driven quality frameworks, data lineage,

cataloging, validation, monitoring & alerting

Typical stack: cloud platforms, data lakes, distributed processing engines, data warehouses, metadata

catalog systems

4. Hands-On Engineering & Deep-Dive Execution

Build PoCs for complex features, establish baseline IaC modules, resolve tier-3 architectural escalations

Architect and validate automated deployment pipelines for App/Backend code, Power BI (PBIP), and

Azure Data Factory

Act as final technical authority on tool selection, CI/CD pipeline structures (Azure DevOps), and

infrastructure design (Terraform/Bicep)

Design synthetic data seeders and automated health-check APIs for platform integrity validation

5. AI Strategy & Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics

Define and drive the AI strategy and roadmap for BI-AXIOM, aligning predictive and prescriptive analytics

capabilities with product vision and customer needs

Evaluate and architect data platform components leveraging Azure Databricks, Snowflake, and similar

advanced analytics platforms to enable ML-driven demand forecasting, risk prediction, and supply chain

optimization

Design prescriptive analytics workflows that translate model outputs into actionable recommendations

for clinical supply chain decision-makers (e.g., proactive rebalancing, expiry mitigation, scenario planning)

6. Security, Compliance, and Business Continuity

Implement platform security posture and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO standards) ensuring strict

adherence

Architect for disaster recovery, business continuity, and audit readiness with autonomous cloud

environment rebuild capability from source code

Design and enforce enterprise-grade security patterns: Managed Identities, Key Vault secret

management, zero-trust networking, dynamic endpoint configuration

7. Executive & Customer Representation

Serve as technical face of AXIOM in enterprise pharma client discussions, explaining security posture,

data isolation, and disaster recovery strategies

Translate architectural trade-offs, technical debt, and cloud costs (FinOps) into business-focused insights

for CEO and executive leadership

Required Qualifications & Skills

8+ years progressive experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data platform

architecture, including full platform lifecycle (infrastructure, CI/CD, data platforms, application

deployment, production observability)

Technical Expertise

Cloud Platforms: Deep, authoritative knowledge of Microsoft Azure ecosystem (App Services, Managed

Identities, Key Vault, Azure Storage, Networking)

Infrastructure as Code: Expert-level proficiency in Terraform or Azure Bicep with focus on modularity,

remote state management, and idempotency

Data & BI Architecture: Strong understanding of Azure Data Factory, modern data warehousing, and

Power BI deployment lifecycles

AI/ML Infrastructure: Experience designing platforms supporting AI-driven data pipelines, ML model

integration (MLOps), and deploying AI services to frontend/backend environments. Familiarity with Azure

Databricks, Snowflake platforms for building predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities

FinOps: Experience designing cloud cost-tracking structures (tagging strategies, resource optimization)

Leadership Skills

Executive Presence: Proven ability presenting complex technical architectures to non-technical C-suite

executives and external enterprise clients

Remote Leadership: Highly self-directed, driving alignment, velocity, and accountability across

distributed, remote engineering teams in India

What We Offer

Critical, high-impact leadership role with ownership of technical execution for core product

Hybrid work environment in India

Competitive compensation package for senior executive-level engineering talent

Opportunity to build and shape enterprise-grade platform from foundational level