About this role
Council Capital is a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market healthcare companies, aiming to scale purpose and performance. The firm operates using the Council Model, which incorporates support from a CEO Council, Strategic Healthcare Investors, and an internal Value Creation Team dedicated to growth through talent, systems, and strategy. The core mission is to help build enduring businesses that improve lives within the healthcare sector.
This Principal Architect role is central to enabling the firm's technological advancements. The individual will provide essential architectural guidance across engineering teams, ensuring that services integrate smoothly and evolve without accruing technical debt. A significant part of the work involves leading the design and delivery of AI-augmented capabilities designed to enhance auditor effectiveness, improve issue identification, and support better decision-making processes.
This position exists to bridge the gap between strategic business goals and technical execution in a highly regulated domain where payment integrity is critical. The ideal candidate is someone who can apply technical judgment to build AI capabilities that are defensible, explainable to regulators, and robust against disputes. Success in this role requires a blend of technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a focus on building AI that demonstrably improves operational efficiency while respecting human elements.
What you will do
- Design and deliver AI-augmented capabilities that enhance auditor effectiveness and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to establish and maintain architectural standards, including API contracts and data flow.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive system architecture diagrams for the platform.
- Define and maintain reusable internal software assets such as shared libraries, APIs, and data contracts.
- Work with compliance and security to define AI data governance policies regarding retention and usage.
- Evaluate AI tooling and vendors pragmatically, balancing capability against cost and complexity.
- Build appropriate evaluation and bias testing methodologies for AI systems.
- Partner with sales and operations to identify and implement AI enhancements for their processes.
What you need
- Demonstrated experience providing architectural guidance across engineering teams to ensure clean service integration and debt management.
- Proven ability to lead the design and delivery of complex AI-augmented features.
- Experience in building AI capabilities within a high-stakes, regulated domain is necessary.
- Proficiency in defining and maintaining technical standards like API contracts and integration patterns.
- The candidate must be able to define data governance policies related to AI data retention and usage.
- Experience in evaluating technical tools and vendors based on operational complexity and cost is required.
- Strong skills in developing methodologies for bias and performance testing of AI models.
- Experience working directly with product owners and customers to prioritize feature development based on feedback.
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare technology
- Experience with AWS and Azure environments
Benefits
- Remote work
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
Is this role remote?
The position is based in a Remote location.
What is the primary technology stack used?
The company is primarily in AWS, but they also have some Azure footprint, and the role involves evaluating these options.
What is the focus of the AI implementation?
The AI strategy emphasizes augmentation and surfacing to make customers’ lives easier and deliver demonstrable business value, focusing on capabilities that are explainable to customers or regulators.
What is the initial expectation for technical output?
Within one month, the goal is to produce a current-state architecture map of the platform, followed by an integration roadmap within two months.
The application is on the official council-capital careers page.
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