R&D Architect/Principal Architect - Remote

Join Our Team at Rancho BioSciences!

As we continue to grow, Rancho BioSciences is seeking an experienced and dynamic R&D Architect/Principal Architect to join our team. This role is critical in driving results across a project, ensuring successful execution, strategic alignment, and effective team collaboration. This individual will drive engagements in data-related and technology-driven projects with a focus on development while maintaining strong client engagement.

Who We Are

Rancho BioSciences is a globally recognized leader in providing advanced services and products across data curation, governance, bioinformatics, and analytics. Our expertise includes project execution, process improvement, and business analysis, all delivered with a steadfast commitment to innovation and quality.

We collaborate with research foundations, biotech companies, government labs, and academic institutions to enable breakthroughs in drug discovery, biomedical research, and precision medicine.

Our mission is to bridge science and healthcare, helping to transform data into actionable insights that drive new discoveries and improve patient care across the globe.

As a rapidly growing global team, we are excited to expand and welcome talented individuals to help us shape the future of data to drive outcomes for our clients.

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions across client and internal projects
• Define and communicate system architecture, design patterns, and technical standards that guide implementation teams
• Translate high-level business and functional requirements into robust, end-to-end solution architectures
• Provide technical leadership across project workstreams, ensuring alignment with engineering principles and best practices
• Proactively identify technical risks, integration challenges, and optimization opportunities, and drive resolution
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients – able to clarify requirements, validate approaches, and shape long-term technical roadmaps
• Review and approve designs, code, and documentation to maintain quality and consistency across teams and projects
• Mentor and support junior cohorts through technical guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with project managers and consulting leads to scope, estimate, and plan technical work
• Contribute to the development of internal frameworks, accelerators, and reusable assets that improve delivery efficiency
• Stay current on emerging technologies and evaluate their potential impact
• Represent the engineering function in strategic client discussion
  
  
  

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves:

• 5 years of engineering experience, with demonstrated success designing and delivering complex technical solutions in consulting, data, or software delivery environments
• Proven experience defining system or platform architectures, technical standards, and best practices
• Deep proficiency in at least one core engineering domain – software/application, data, or cloud engineering; must have strong working knowledge of adjacent domains
• Hands on experience in a modern technology stack (dbt, React, Vue, AWS/Azure/GCP, Python, SQL, Gremlin) and familiarity with integration patterns across systems and services
• Strong understanding of software engineering and architectural principles
• Experience with infrastructure as cod, CI/CD automation, and DevOps practices to support reliable deployments
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into sound technical designs and actionable engineering plans
• Proven success leading technical workstreams or teams, including mentoring and code/design reviews
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – ability to articulate design decisions and trade off clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong collaboration skills; able to partner with management consultants, project managers, and clients to guide technical direction and ensure delivery success
• Commitment to quality, technical excellence, and continuous improvement in both engineering and consulting practices
• Demonstrated experience leading and operating in agile, iterative, or hybrid project delivery environments
  
  
  

Nice-to-Haves:

• Advanced degree (PhD, MBA, or MS) or practical experience in a Life Science related field
• Exposure and familiarity with emerging technologies in R&D, including AI/ML in drug discovery, real-world evidence (RWE), and digital clinical trials
• Deep experience with data platform design (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift/Athena, BigQuery, etc)
• Proficiency with cloud native architecture patterns, microservices, and infrastructure-as-code (Teraform, CloudFormations, Pulumi)
• Hands on experience implementing or governing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and automation frameworks
• Strong understanding of data architecture and modeling principles, including ELT/ETL frameworks, metadata management, and data lineage
• Thought leadership in the engineering community through technical blogs, presentations, or open-source contributions
• Proven ability to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies that align with business and R&D strategy
  
  
  

Why You'll Love Working at Rancho BioSciences:

• We offer a variety of health and wellbeing benefits, including medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
• We offer financial wellbeing benefits, including a 401(k) with company match
• We encourage continuous learning and facilitate career conversations and coaching to support your development
• We value work-life balance, offering Paid Time Off, flexible working hours, and a 100% remote work environment