Sr. Platform Engineer, Architect

Healthcare’s helping hand.

CHG shook things up in 1979 by inventing the locum tenens staffing model. We connect doctors with patients who need their care. As the largest physician staffing firm in America, our providers treat millions of patients each year.

Our industry is growing and demand is high. This means you’ll have plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in your career. Keeping healthcare healthy can be as fun as it is rewarding

We are seeking a Sr Platform Engineering, Architect to serve as the technical leader for our Platform Engineering organization. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will own the long-term technical vision for our internal developer platform, ensuring initiatives, architectures, and roadmaps remain tightly aligned with the strategic direction of Platform Engineering leadership.

You will maintain strong strategic alignment with enterprise architecture functions, harmonizing platform decisions with broader architectural principles, standards, and technology strategy.

You will lead through deep technical expertise, influence, and cross-organizational partnership—driving faster, safer, and enterprise software delivery across CHG Healthcare and its portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Platform Engineering leadership to define and execute a clear technical vision, multi-year roadmap, and architectural principles for the platform.
• Ensure platform architecture, technology choices, and patterns align with enterprise-wide architectural standards and direction.
• Drive technical automation and adoption of standards, patterns, tools, and golden paths across platform teams, product teams, and stakeholders.
• Lead high-impact, cross-cutting initiatives that advance developer experience, scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Act as the senior technical authority in platform decisions, architecture reviews, and trade-off discussions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Champion and evolve platform standards, best practices, and reference architectures that enable teams to build and operate services efficiently.
• Identify technical debt, systemic gaps, and strategic opportunities; drive high-leverage improvements that measurably improve developer velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Mentor senior, staff, and tech lead engineers through design reviews, pair programming, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Represent the platform technical vision in executive briefings, engineering forums, architecture governance, and cross-functional planning.
• Stay current with trends in platform engineering, cloud-native technologies, IDPs, developer productivity, and enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, in platform, infrastructure, developer enablement, or enterprise architecture-related functions.
• Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Proven ability to define and deliver technical vision for large-scale internal platforms serving hundreds of engineers.
• Exceptional skill in leading through influence, partnering, and driving alignment across diverse teams and complex organizations.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication; able to clearly explain complex technical topics to technical and executive audiences.

Preferred

• Prior experience as Staff, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer in platform/developer experience or enterprise architecture role.
• Contributions to open-source platform tools or major internal platform transformations.
• Proven success building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or paved roads that significantly increased engineering productivity.
• Experience with metrics-driven platform evaluation (DORA, DevEx, SLO/SLI, etc.).

In return we offer:

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Traditional healthcare benefits such as medical and dental coverage, and some unique benefits like onsite health centers, corporate wellness programs, and free behavioral health appointments.
• Flexible work schedules - including work-from-home options available
• Recognition programs with rewards including trips, cash, and paid time off
• Family-friendly benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption assistance, and marriage counseling
• Tailored training resources including free LinkedIn learning courses
• Volunteer time off and employee-driven matching grants
• Tuition reimbursement programs

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CHG Healthcare values a diverse and inclusive workforce. Interested in this role but not a perfect fit? Apply anyway.

We welcome applicants of any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status and individuals with disabilities as an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are an at-will employer.

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