Fractal Analytics
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HeadofPlatformEngineering/PrincipalArchitect
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“Head of Platform Engineering / Principal Architect at Fractal Analytics. Skills: Platform Architecture, Cloud Reliability, Enterprise Integrations, AI Productionization. Own end-to-end architecture. Define platform blueprint”
What You'll Achieve.
achieve 99.9%+ SLOs; reduce rework; reduce second-guessing; reduce post-bind quality issues; accelerate sales and implementation; measurable reliability and quality
Industry & Context.
exception handling; graceful degradation; backpressure; circuit breakers
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
backend/platform engineering, leading platform or core backend teams for B2B/SaaS products, cloud-native, multi-tenant platforms, 99.9% + SLOs, multi-region deployments, DR drills, incident management, Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/Helm), API gateways, queues/streams, low-latency API design, caching, throughput optimization, enterprise integrations, Guidewire/Duck Creek, SSO (OAuth2/OIDC/SAML), thirdparty data sources, security & compliance, encryption at rest/in transit, secrets mgmt, key rotation, SOC 2 readiness, GDPR-aligned data privacy, audit trails, agentic/LLM or ML-powered features in production, customer-facing communicator, pre sales, RFPs, conference presentations, building high-performing teams and cultures, quality with speed, paved roads, CI/CD, trunk-based dev, code review standards
Nice to Have
Guidewire/Duck Creek accelerators or integration frameworks, BPM/workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence, Camunda), FinOps practice leadership, usage billing metering, ROI dashboards, admin/observability portals, conference talks, publications, community contributions
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end architecture
Define platform blueprint
Set reliability and security bars
Build observability & FinOps
Champion demo/sandbox environments
Represent engineering in pre-sales
Architect platform's multi-tenant design
Lead cloud deployment
Own integration layer
Establish security & compliance
Partner with Data Science
Stand up demo & sandbox environments
Lead presales conversations
Define coding standards
Define operational excellence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Data Science; Work with product team; Collaborate with Data Science
Communication Scope
customer-facing communicator; confident with CIO/CTO/CISO stakeholders; pre sales; RFPs; conference presentations
Full Job Description
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! _We 're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business._ **Head of Platform Engineering / Principal Architect** ** _Company Overview:_** Fractal Analytics is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Fractal is focusing on selling world-class suite of vertical and functional AI products that solve high value enterprise problems under the brand Cogentiq. _**About Cogentiq UnderWriting Platform:**_ [**Cogentiq Underwriting**](http://fractal.ai/products/cogentiq-underwriting) is Fractal’s AI‑powered underwriting intelligence solution designed to help insurance underwriters make **faster, more confident risk decisions**. It works within existing core underwriting systems to turn incoming submissions into **decision‑ready files** by resolving data gaps, highlighting risk signals that rules alone miss, and providing clear, explainable insights at every step of the underwriting process. The platform continuously validates submissions, flags grey areas that require human judgment, and ensures every underwriting decision is backed by **structured evidence, full traceability, and clear rationale** —reducing rework, second‑guessing, and post‑bind quality issues. Cogentiq Underwriting enables underwriters and QA teams to move from manual reconciliation and spot checks to **consistent, governed, and intelligence‑led underwriting decisions** across the portfolio. _**Role Description:**_ You will own the end-to-end architecture, reliability, and integration strategy for Cogentiq-UW a cloud-native, multi-tenant underwriting platform that provides centralized visibility, governance, and configuration across modules and agents. You’ll architect hi
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