Principal Software Engineer/Architect
UKG · Lowell, MA
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Jul 9, 2026
Lowell, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior architectural leadership role focused on defining and driving the technical direction for a SaaS workforce management product suite. Day-to-day work involves setting architectural standards, reviewing code for design integrity, shaping multi-year technology roadmaps, and collaborating with engineering, product, and operations teams. Suited to a seasoned architect with deep Java and cloud platform experience who is comfortable both guiding teams and getting into technical detail.
Staff level · 10+ years · National · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled without an explicit seniority level but describes org-wide architectural leadership across multiple teams and a multi-year vision — scope consistent with a Staff-level individual contributor rather than a pure people manager, though it carries strong cross-team influence. 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is noted as a runner-up given the leadership and mentoring emphasis.
Bachelor's or Master's degree is listed as a requirement but the posting immediately qualifies it with 'or equivalent experience', so no formal degree is treated as a hard gate.
Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) are listed together as a group with 'etc.' — GCP is used as the primary name with AWS and Azure as alternatives since all are presented as interchangeable examples of 'modern cloud technology'.
Datadog and Grafana are listed together as examples of observability tools; Datadog is the primary with Grafana as an alternative.
Messaging/event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Beam, Spark) and analytics technologies (BigQuery, Snowflake, Tableau, Looker) appear in the requirements section but are framed with 'etc.' and listed alongside clearly preferred items, suggesting stack context rather than hard gates — marked as preferred.
Boomi is listed as an example of an 'industry leading integration platform' with 'like' framing, indicating it is illustrative rather than a hard gate — marked as preferred.
Test automation experience is explicitly called 'preferred' in the posting.
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