Principal Solutions Architect – Healthcare Technology

Responsibilities: What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with product management and business leaders to translate business goals into scalable, compliant solution designs.

• Design end-to-end solution architectures across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure, with a focus on healthcare workflows, patient experience, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, CMS, HITECH, etc.).

• Serve as the technical leader for healthcare technology implementations, guiding engineering teams through architectural best practices and ensuring regulatory alignment.

• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, AI frameworks, and modern software tools as part of the overarching architecture to optimize scalability, resilience, and performance.

• Ensure security, interoperability, and compliance with industry standards (FHIR, HL7, HIPAA, HITRUST).

• Act as a thought partner to product teams, balancing innovation with regulatory constraints and operational feasibility.

• Develop solution roadmaps, architecture blueprints, and technical documentation to support delivery and future scalability.

• Mentor engineers and architects, fostering a culture of innovation and compliance in healthcare technology.

Qualifications

Minimum Education, Experience & Training Equivalent to:

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, with at least 5 years in healthcare technology.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Strong track record designing and implementing solutions in regulated industries (healthcare, insurance, life sciences, or government).

• Expertise in cloud technologies (e.g., AWS [EC2, S3, Lambda], Microsoft Azure [App Services, AKS], Google Cloud [BigQuery, Cloud Run]).

• Deep understanding of AI tools and implementations (e.g., large language models, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Azure Cognitive Services, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI).

• Proven experience working in tight partnership with Product Management and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business priorities.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain technical solutions to business leaders and vice versa.

• Knowledge of modern software tools such as:

  • Data & Integration: Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Kafka

  • DevOps & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions

  • Healthcare Standards & APIs: HL7, FHIR, SMART on FHIR APIs

Requests:

• Sensitivity to working with an ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and economically diverse population.

• A commitment to the values of the organization while demonstrating good judgment, flexibility, patience
  and discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive matters.

• Familiarity with the latest tech and competitive generative ecosystems.

• Frequent visual or auditory communication and listening.

• Capacity to utilize computers and telephones to communicate.

• Can communicate effectively within the work environment, read and write in English.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (organized by our company values):

Bold:

• Challenges the status quo in service of creating advocacy informed systems and external partnerships.

• Experience coaching, facilitating, or working in advocacy spaces.

• Navigates ambiguity with an excitement for problem solving.

• Effectively manages programs from visioning to implementation + impact measure.

• Commitment to meet agreed upon deadlines on time or ahead of schedule.

• Transparent on action, pursuits, and outcomes.

Community oriented:

• Seeks to understand the underlying needs, desires, and values of colleagues.

• Proactively builds spaces for others to engage in learning and community.

• Appreciates and demonstrates collaboration across teams.

• Serves as a role model, bringing our core values to life in your work.

• Works well with employees at any level of employment.

Equity informed:

• Effectively advocates for historically excluded or forgotten groups.

• Understands that humans have biases and are imperfect as a baseline.

• Effectively working with an ethnically, socioeconomically, linguistically, and culturally diverse population.

• Understands of the social determinants of health and healthcare disparities.

• Approaches work with a growth mindset, welcome feedback, and understand that humans all have biases and are imperfect as a baseline.

Wellbeing driven:

• Willingness and commitment to self-reflection and re-thinking.

• Ability to understand your physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing needs with a willingness to co-create boundaries that allow you to sustainably show up and honor your humanity.

Conditions of Employment

• Ability to obtain and maintain criminal record clearance through the Department of Justice (DOJ). The People & Performance Department must analyze DOJ/FBI live scan reports in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and Local laws, as well as fitness for the position.

• Ability to obtain and maintain clearance through the Office of Inspector General.

• Must attend any required training.

Time Type:

Compensation:

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas as deemed fit for the organization.