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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Architect, Digital Applications - **Company:** Intuitive Surgical, Inc. - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $273,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Architectural Patterns, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Distributed Systems, Interoperability, Software Architecture, Systems Architecture, User-Centered Design, Workflow Management Systems, Cloud Platform System, Event Driven Architecture, AI Platforms, Information Technology, Data Management, Microservices - **Published:** October 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Intuitive/744000158606762-staff-architect-digital-applications ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. * 12+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale software platforms and digital products. * 8+ years operating in senior architecture leadership roles. * Proven track record defining architecture strategies across multiple products, business domains, and engineering organizations. * Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering. * Experience building customer-facing ecosystems serving multiple personas and workflows. * Strong understanding of identity, personalization, engagement, analytics, data platforms, and digital customer experiences. * Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across organizations without direct authority. * Exceptional communication and strategic thinking skills., * Experience with healthcare, medical devices, surgical technologies, clinical applications, or regulated environments. * Experience building platform ecosystems that span mobile, web, cloud, edge, and connected device experiences. * Knowledge of AI-enabled customer experiences and intelligent workflow orchestration. * Experience defining multi-year technology strategies and organizational transformation initiatives. * Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred. ## Description The Staff Architect, Digital Applications is the technical and architectural leader responsible for defining and driving the long-term technology vision for the My Intuitive ecosystem. This role is accountable for ensuring that all customer-facing digital capabilities evolve toward a single, integrated customer experience spanning mobile, web, and future AI-enabled experiences. The Principal Architect will partner closely with product, engineering, design, clinical, commercial, data, and platform leaders to transform My Intuitive from a collection of applications into a unified digital ecosystem and the digital operating system for robotic surgery. The successful candidate combines deep software architecture expertise, customer-centric thinking, platform strategy, organizational influence, and the ability to align multiple product and engineering organizations around a common architectural north star. Roles & Responsibilities Ecosystem Vision and Architecture Leadership * Define and evolve the end-state architecture for the My Intuitive ecosystem. * Establish architectural principles, guardrails, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps aligned with business and customer objectives. * Drive convergence from fragmented applications toward a unified ecosystem anchored around common identity, customer journeys, data, and platform services. * Act as the chief architect for customer experience strategy across digital products and platforms. Customer Experience Architecture * Champion a journey-centric architecture spanning Learn, Prepare, Perform, Review, Improve, and Mentor experiences. * Ensure experiences are designed around customer goals rather than organizational or application boundaries. * Define reusable experience patterns enabling consistent navigation, personalization, workflow orchestration, and engagement across the ecosystem. * Advocate for human-centered design principles and frictionless customer experiences. Platform and Systems Architecture * Lead architecture across customer identity, entitlement, collaboration, learning, case management, insights, notifications, analytics, integration, and AI capabilities. * Drive platform-first approaches that maximize reuse, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. * Guide architecture for cloud-native platforms, APIs, event-driven systems, data products, AI services, and interoperability. * Ensure solutions support current and future Intuitive platforms and digital services. Applications and AI * Establish architectural patterns enabling longitudinal customer journeys and personalized experiences. * Drive integration of AI-enabled workflows, recommendations, insights, learning pathways, and decision support capabilities. * Partner with Data Engineering, AI/ML, Clinical, and Product teams on future-facing digital experiences. Cross-Functional Influence * Collaborate with leadership to translate long-term business strategy into technology investments and architectural roadmaps. * Align multiple engineering teams around common architecture standards and platform direction. * Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders across the organization. * Serve as a trusted advisor for strategic engineering decisions and major investments. Governance and Technical Excellence * Lead architecture reviews and technical design governance. * Drive engineering quality, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, safety, and regulatory considerations into architectural decisions. * Establish measurable architecture outcomes tied to customer experience, adoption, scalability, and business value., * Progress toward one My Intuitive ecosystem architecture. * Less duplication and technology fragmentation (reduce cost to serve). * Product Quality at expected levels. * Greater reuse of shared platform services. * More consistent customer experiences. * Higher adoption and engagement. * Faster delivery through reusable architecture.