Principal Solutions Architect – Healthcare Technology

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished Principal Solutions Architect with deep expertise in healthcare and regulated industries to design, guide, and deliver transformative technology solutions. In this role, you will bridge business needs and technology capabilities, working in very close partnership with product management, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to bring innovative, compliant, and scalable healthcare solutions to market.


You will play a critical role in shaping solution architecture that leverages cloud platforms, AI-driven capabilities, and modern emerging software tools, ensuring alignment with healthcare regulations while enabling efficiency, security, and impact.

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): 

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• 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.