Solution Architect - Billing & Enrollment
About the role
Medica is a nonprofit health plan serving communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural thinking and hands-on engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead design for complex, large-scale systems—cross-service architectures, integrations, and cloud-native solutions
- Define and document architectural patterns, including API design, microservices, event-driven systems, and system reliability
- Evaluate existing systems, identify opportunities for modernization, and lead technical execution from concept through delivery
- Ensure that systems meet non-functional requirements such as scalability, observability, resilience, and security
- Write high-quality, maintainable code in Python, Java, and supporting technologies
- Lead complex debugging, performance tuning, and problem resolution efforts
- Build prototypes, reference implementations, and proof-of-concept to guide teams
- Conduct deep architectural and code reviews, raising quality across engineering teams
- Serve as a technical advisor and thought leader across projects, domains, and teams
- Mentor engineers at all levels; uplift engineering maturity across the organization
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps, and secure-by-design principles
- Build strong partnerships with product, operations, cloud, security, and data teams
- Translate Medica’s business needs into scalable engineering solutions
- Provide strategic input into roadmaps and long-term architecture plans
- Represent engineering decisions clearly to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience in related field
- 7+ years of work experience beyond degree
- Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, API design, microservices, and cloud technologies (AWS or Azure)
- Strong hands-on coding experience with Python and Java (plus experience with other modern languages or frameworks)
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority
- Experience integrating modern platforms with legacy systems in scalable and sustainable ways
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts
Skills and Abilities
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, health tech, or other regulated environments
- Familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, and secure system design principles
- Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, or domain-driven design
- Experience driving organization-wide technical transformations or replatforming efforts
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, health tech, or other regulated environments
- Familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, and secure system design principles
- Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, or domain-driven design
- Experience driving organization-wide technical transformations or replatforming efforts
Benefits
The full salary grade for this position is $113,400 - $194,400. While the full salary grade is provided, the typical hiring salary range for this role is expected to be between $113,400 - $170,100. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data.
Pay
The full salary grade for this position is $113,400 - $194,400. While the full salary grade is provided, the typical hiring salary range for this role is expected to be between $113,400 - $170,100. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data.
Schedule
This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite, on average, 3 days per week. We are open to candidates located near one of the following office locations: Minnetonka, MN, or Madison, WI.