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Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineering Architect to help shape the architecture of Dotmatics Luma, our next-generation, multi-tenant, AI-powered data management and workflow automation platform for multimodal scientific discovery. You will design and refine the AWS systems that deploy Luma efficiently to customers.
As a Principal Software Engineering Architect, you will be a key driver in delivering Luma to customers. This role will be an influential leader and advisor to the Engineering and Product teams. You will provide deep technical expertise on our current technologies, and technical leadership that promotes new ideas and improves how we build and release Luma, including how instruments, scientific data, and the AI agent at the core of the platform connect.
In this role you will get to
- Support and drive the end-to-end architecture of Luma, from instrument connectivity and data ingestion through to the platform services and AI agent experience
- Influence technology choices for the platform
- Design solutions that are enterprise scalable and maintainable, with the data isolation and auditability that regulated scientific customers
- Collaborate on architectural principles, frameworks, best practices, and standards, including how the AI agent and extension points such as MCP connect securely to platform services
- Drive strategic technology initiatives with Product Managers, other Architects, and Engineers
- Be hands-on in developing and delivering Luma, this includes prototyping and guiding the implementation of components inside of Luma.
- Help improve developer experience and software lifecycle by proposing tools and pipelines that increase the quality of the software development experience.
- Advise the product team in clarifying requirements for deploying Luma into customer clouds, including multi-tenant and regulated-environment needs
- Work with customer cloud teams.
- Facilitate the architecture processes, including architecture reviews and documentation
- Mentor other software engineers on the team
- Shape projects in a timely manner to established architecture patterns
- Work in a consultative fashion to improve communication, collaboration, and alignment among teams inside and outside the organization
- Analyse and provide feedback on Luma product strategy
We are looking for people who have a BSc in Computer Science and 10+ equivalent, with deep technical expertise in engineering architecture and engineering design. You will have expert knowledge of building, releasing, and maintaining a complex scientific enterprise software platform.
The Key Skills we are looking for:
- Deep understanding of modern cloud software architecture, including multi-tenant platforms
- Systems design and development, with a solid understanding of application development best practices and core enterprise applications
- Deep knowledge of AWS services
- Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Kafka
- Working technical knowledge of integration strategies, including web services and APIs
- Experience setting up agentic harnesses for code generation
- Influential communication with core and cross-functional teams
- Infrastructure-as-code solutions (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Software containerization concepts (Docker, Podman)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, CodePipeline)
- Knowledge of networking concepts in cloud environments
- Software development lifecycle processes and version control
- Modern back-end JavaScript and Node.js, Python
- Business requirements gathering and analysis, strategic planning, and project planning and management
- Engineering evaluation principles and practice
You may also have:
- Instrument integration and scientific data ingestion (e.g. SiLA, OPC-UA)
- Apache Spark, Databricks, or comparable data platforms
- Securing AI agent integrations (permissions, sandboxing, prompt injection defense)
- Experience using research informatics software and tools
- Scala
Total Rewards
Dotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition.
Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.
Other Total Rewards Offered
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Insurance
- Health Spending Accounts
- Wellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks)
- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)
- Flexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)
This is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
Base Pay Range
$173,400 - $234,600 USD
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineering Architect to help shape the architecture of Dotmatics Luma, our next-generation, multi-tenant, AI-powered data management and workflow automation platform for multimodal scientific discovery. You will design and refine the AWS systems that deploy Luma efficiently to customers.
As a Principal Software Engineering Architect, you will be a key driver in delivering Luma to customers. This role will be an influential leader and advisor to the Engineering and Product teams. You will provide deep technical expertise on our current technologies, and technical leadership that promotes new ideas and improves how we build and release Luma, including how instruments, scientific data, and the AI agent at the core of the platform connect.
In this role you will get to
- Support and drive the end-to-end architecture of Luma, from instrument connectivity and data ingestion through to the platform services and AI agent experience
- Influence technology choices for the platform
- Design solutions that are enterprise scalable and maintainable, with the data isolation and auditability that regulated scientific customers
- Collaborate on architectural principles, frameworks, best practices, and standards, including how the AI agent and extension points such as MCP connect securely to platform services
- Drive strategic technology initiatives with Product Managers, other Architects, and Engineers
- Be hands-on in developing and delivering Luma, this includes prototyping and guiding the implementation of components inside of Luma.
- Help improve developer experience and software lifecycle by proposing tools and pipelines that increase the quality of the software development experience.
- Advise the product team in clarifying requirements for deploying Luma into customer clouds, including multi-tenant and regulated-environment needs
- Work with customer cloud teams.
- Facilitate the architecture processes, including architecture reviews and documentation
- Mentor other software engineers on the team
- Shape projects in a timely manner to established architecture patterns
- Work in a consultative fashion to improve communication, collaboration, and alignment among teams inside and outside the organization
- Analyse and provide feedback on Luma product strategy
We are looking for people who have a BSc in Computer Science and 10+ equivalent, with deep technical expertise in engineering architecture and engineering design. You will have expert knowledge of building, releasing, and maintaining a complex scientific enterprise software platform.
The Key Skills we are looking for:
- Deep understanding of modern cloud software architecture, including multi-tenant platforms
- Systems design and development, with a solid understanding of application development best practices and core enterprise applications
- Deep knowledge of AWS services
- Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Kafka
- Working technical knowledge of integration strategies, including web services and APIs
- Experience setting up agentic harnesses for code generation
- Influential communication with core and cross-functional teams
- Infrastructure-as-code solutions (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Software containerization concepts (Docker, Podman)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, CodePipeline)
- Knowledge of networking concepts in cloud environments
- Software development lifecycle processes and version control
- Modern back-end JavaScript and Node.js, Python
- Business requirements gathering and analysis, strategic planning, and project planning and management
- Engineering evaluation principles and practice
You may also have:
- Instrument integration and scientific data ingestion (e.g. SiLA, OPC-UA)
- Apache Spark, Databricks, or comparable data platforms
- Securing AI agent integrations (permissions, sandboxing, prompt injection defense)
- Experience using research informatics software and tools
- Scala
Total Rewards
Dotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition.
Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.
Other Total Rewards Offered
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Insurance
- Health Spending Accounts
- Wellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks)
- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)
- Flexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)
This is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
Base Pay Range
$173,400 - $234,600 USD
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote principal architect jobs.
- Ten or more years of experience in software engineering or systems architecture
- Proven ability to design and govern enterprise-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience leading architecture review boards or technical governance processes
- TOGAF certification or equivalent architecture framework knowledge preferred
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Principal Architect Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote principal architect openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and seniority and apply directly without digging across multiple sources.
Show your async communication in writing
Remote employers screen principal architects for written clarity before anything else. Share design docs, architecture decision records, or RFC examples in your application materials so hiring teams can see how you drive technical decisions without a whiteboard.
Demonstrate remote leadership on distributed systems
Principal architect roles on distributed teams require influencing engineering decisions across time zones and org boundaries. Highlight work where you aligned multiple teams on architecture without direct authority, specifically in a remote or hybrid context.
Prepare for async-first remote interviews
Many remote principal architect hiring processes include take-home design exercises, written case studies, or recorded async presentations. Practice delivering a system design clearly in writing or on video, not just in a live whiteboard session.
Remote Principal Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote principal architect job?
Remote principal architect roles go to candidates who can lead technical direction without in-person oversight, so the screening process puts heavy weight on async communication, self-direction, and documentation habits. Companies hiring remotely want to see that you can drive architectural decisions across distributed teams, write clear design docs, and move work forward without a manager in the room. A strong portfolio of system design outcomes, written RFCs, or public architecture work gives you a concrete edge.
Which companies hire remote principal architects?
Remote principal architect roles are posted by CVS Health, ServiceNow, and Genesys and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. The employers doing most of the remote hiring are remote-first software companies, cloud platform teams, and distributed enterprise organizations across technology, fintech, and healthcare sectors.
Can you get a remote principal architect job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry into this role is harder because distributed teams expect you to operate independently from day one with minimal hand-holding. The companies most likely to consider candidates earlier in their career are smaller remote-first startups where the principal architect role is still being defined. Showing documented system design work, open-source contributions with architectural scope, or a strong history of leading technical decisions in prior roles can open doors when formal experience is thin.
Do you need a degree for remote principal architect jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring principal architects weight demonstrated technical depth, system design ability, and a history of leading complex architecture decisions far more than credentials on paper. A candidate who can show real outcomes across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale platform work will compete strongly regardless of educational background.
Which industries hire the most remote principal architects?
Remote principal architect roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Insurance, and Renewable Energy, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors hire principal architects remotely because their engineering organizations are structured around distributed teams building software and infrastructure that doesn't require anyone to be physically on-site.
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