Chief Architect, HealthShare

About the role

The Chief Architect for HealthShare is accountable for the architectural direction of the HealthShare platform and its evolution toward a more adoptable, upgradeable, and operationally efficient product. This role works across Development and Product Management to ensure architectural decisions support the product roadmap, improve execution across teams, and reduce the cost and complexity of deploying, upgrading, and operating HealthShare.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target architecture for HealthShare.
• Drive architectural evolution from deployment-specific patterns toward reusable platform services.
• Ensure architectural investments materially reduce the cost and complexity of adoption, upgrade, and operation.
• Guide HealthShare services toward multi-tenant-capable, cloud-deployable, and operationally manageable designs where those approaches improve product scalability and lifecycle efficiency.
• Align architecture with Product Management goals and roadmap priorities.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects and raise the quality of technical decision-making across the organization.

Requirements

• Deep experience with InterSystems HealthShare architecture and engineering.
• Strong understanding of InterSystems IRIS and HealthShare platform patterns relevant to service design, interoperability, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Proven experience designing enterprise healthcare systems with substantial interoperability requirements.
• Strong understanding of HL7 v2, FHIR, CDA/C-CDA, and related healthcare integration patterns.
• Experience evolving existing platforms toward architectures that improve product adoption, simplify upgrades, and reduce operating burden.
• Experience defining or guiding architecture for multi-tenant and operationally scalable systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and functions at a senior technical level.
• Strong judgment in balancing architectural rigor with delivery realities and product economics.

Qualifications

• Required experience and qualifications as outlined above.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Benefits

We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. InterSystems is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. InterSystems is providing a current good faith estimate of the anticipated base salary range for this position depending on a variety of factors including experience, education, skills, and performance. Other compensation may include a discretionary annual variable target incentive. The company also provides generous employee benefits including: Medical, vision, and dental insuranceShort-term and long-term disability, and life insurance401(k) Profit Sharing ContributionPaid Time Off and HolidaysParental LeaveTuition reimbursement.

Pay

The estimated base compensation range for this role is: $145,000—$190,000 USD.

Schedule

N/A