FullStack Experience Architect-Life Sciences Technology

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Position Summary:

The Full Stack Experience Architect, Life Sciences Technology, leads the design and delivery of secure, scalable technology applications that operationalize analytics, workflows, and AI capabilities. This role owns application-layer architecture, API strategy implementation, DevSecOps practices, and production readiness standards across life sciences technology programs.

The architect ensures that user-facing solutions are performant, secure, and maintainable, while enabling rapid prototyping and iteration through modern engineering practices.

What You Will Do:

• Architect and implement modern web applications and microservices supporting analytics dashboards, workflow automation, and AI-driven decision tools.
• Define API design standards and ensure consistent implementation of RESTful services, define SLOs and event-based integrations.
• Lead and govern application-layer security controls, including SSO integration, RBAC enforcement, token/session management, and secure secrets handling.
• Architect and optimize solutions for performance, scalability, and reliability across distributed, cloud-native environments.
• Partner with Analytics and GenAI Architects to safely and efficiently integrate LLM-based services into enterprise application workflows.
• Design and oversee microservices architectures and integrations, including Agentic AI services, MCP tools, and related service orchestration patterns.
• Leverage GenAI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate V0 prototypes and V1 MVP development while maintaining security, quality, compliance, and traceability.
• Ensure application implementations align with enterprise integration blueprints, architecture standards, and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship, code reviews, and enforcement of engineering quality standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain reusable component libraries, API frameworks, and DevOps templates to promote standardization and accelerate future solution delivery.

What You Will Need:

• 7–10 years of experience in full stack engineering and application architecture.
• Strong proficiency in React or Next.js and TypeScript.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using Node.js, Java, Python Flask, or .NET.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in cloud-native environments.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Exposure to next-generation development and automation tools such as n8n, Lovable, Supabase, Figma Make, and similar rapid application development and workflow orchestration platforms.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and authentication/authorization models.
• Experience implementing monitoring and performance optimization strategies.
• Experience collaborating in Agile, distributed delivery environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience with Generative AI frameworks and orchestration platforms, such as LangChain, LangGraph, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AWS Bedrock Agents, and related ecosystem tools.
• Experience embedding analytics platforms or AI services into enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Terraform, Bicep, or similar).

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

About Guidehouse

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