Software Architect - Java - Veeva

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

Veeva is seeking a Software Architect to develop our global platform for Life Sciences. This is a high-leverage role designed for an engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges. You will deliver foundational software to thousands of developers building applications that transform medical breakthroughs into life-changing patient care.

Technical Leadership: Mentor and technically lead teams of talented software engineers and data scientists, shaping their professional development

Platform Components: Design and build API-first features, high-performance services, and enterprise tooling that are the baseline for application development

Core Infrastructure: Introduce and deliver core technologies for our distributed architecture, with an emphasis on reliability and scalability

Agentic AI: Integrate supervised and autonomous agents into GxP-validated workflows, ensuring decisions remain traceable and transparent

Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to size and align designs with business and industry goals

Hands-on Engineering: Code agentically and manually, maintaining deep technical ownership as both a designer and programmer

Engineering Maturity: A career-spanning track record (typically 10+ years) of building complex systems. You are deeply technical and hands-on. We value insight gained from observing the long-term consequences of architectural decisions

Problem Solving: You possess strong algorithmic intuition, a deep understanding of data structures, and mastery of design patterns

Programming Languages: Expert-level proficiency in Java (or an equivalent statically typed language) and solid JavaScript skills are required. Experience with TypeScript and the Spring ecosystem is highly valued, while Python experience is beneficial

API-First Design: Accomplished with contract-driven development, you recognize that an API is both a commitment to clients and a constraint on future development. You understand that clear APIs and documentation are the foundation for implementing autonomous AI agents

Data Architecture: Strong experience in relational databases, schema design, index optimization, and query planning. Experience with full-text search (Solr, Lucene) and vector databases is a significant plus

Enterprise Patterns: Extensive experience architecting high-scale, multi-tenant platforms. Deep familiarity with enterprise authorization patterns, internationalization, and global date/time management. You have experience designing extensible schemas and pluggable code frameworks for client-specific customization

Distributed Systems: Experience in architecting event-driven architectures and asynchronous workflows. Highly proficient in distributed systems, including techniques to manage concurrency and consistency. You understand the many tradeoffs of a microservice architecture

Operational Systems: Experience in architecting for cloud (AWS) and containerized environments (Kubernetes). Demonstrated ability to coordinate with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure seamless testing, deployment, and observability across the SDLC. Experience in production debugging and mission-critical system maintenance

Agentic Development: Experience in AI-assisted development (Claude Code) to drive engineering velocity while maintaining professional code quality. Preferably, you have introduced agentic development workflows and driven AI adoption across an organization. Experience delivering autonomous agents as product features is highly desirable

Mentorship Impact: A proven track record of elevating engineers and teams. You have mentored individuals through design challenges and established quality and coding standards that improved the collective output of your organization

Work Authorization: Unrestricted right to work in the United States is required. Veeva will not provide visa sponsorship at this time