Software Architect Jobs in Massachusetts
Software Architect jobs in Massachusetts are among the most actively posted in the country, concentrated in enterprise software, financial technology, life sciences platforms, and defense systems, with openings from mid-level up through principal and distinguished architect levels. The heaviest hiring is in Greater Boston, Cambridge, and the Route 128 corridor, where employers like Fidelity Investments, Raytheon Technologies, and MathWorks maintain large, permanent engineering organizations. The most in-demand specialties are cloud-native architecture, microservices design, and enterprise integration across heavily regulated industries. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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 Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software architect jobs across Massachusetts.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Eight or more years of software engineering experience with at least three in architecture roles
- Deep proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Demonstrated experience designing distributed, microservices-based, or event-driven systems
- Strong background in system design, API architecture, and enterprise integration patterns
- Ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and communicate architecture decisions to stakeholders
Software Architect Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a software architect in Massachusetts?
Software architect is not a state-licensed profession in Massachusetts, so there is no required board exam or registration. The typical path starts with a computer science or software engineering degree, followed by several years as a software engineer before moving into architecture roles. Many Massachusetts employers, particularly in finance and defense, value AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certifications. A portfolio of system design decisions and leadership experience carries the most weight in local hiring.
How much do software architects make in Massachusetts?
Software architects in Massachusetts earn a median of about $165,210 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $102,810 for the lowest 10% to over $213,970 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire software architects in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring software architects in Massachusetts right now include AMD, Bose, and Apple, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Massachusetts's concentration of financial services firms, defense contractors, and life sciences technology companies makes it one of the more consistently active markets for senior architecture roles in the country.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most software architect jobs?
Boston, Cambridge, and Bedford have the most software architect openings in Massachusetts. Greater Boston and Cambridge anchor the market through their concentration of enterprise software companies, fintech firms, and research-driven institutions, while suburban Route 128 corridor cities like Waltham and Burlington generate significant volume from the defense, biotech, and enterprise IT employers headquartered there.
Are there remote software architect jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 83% of software architect openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the largely desk-based, collaborative nature of the role. The work that most commonly stays fully remote includes cloud infrastructure design, API strategy, and documentation-heavy platform governance, while on-site expectations tend to apply when architects are embedded with hardware or on-premises system teams.
How can I get hired as a software architect in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is entering as a senior software engineer at a large Massachusetts employer and moving into architecture through internal project leadership. Companies like Fidelity Investments and Raytheon Technologies hire associate and mid-level engineers into roles where architects are grown from within. Building a portfolio of system design proposals, contributing to open-source infrastructure projects, and earning a cloud platform certification gives candidates without a formal architecture title a credible edge when applying to Boston-area engineering teams.
Where can I find and apply to software architect jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to software architect jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current Massachusetts openings across Greater Boston, the Route 128 corridor, and beyond. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly to the ones that match.
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