Solutions Architect

About the role

Varmoda is seeking a Solutions Architect responsible for establishing strategic technology direction and creating solution architecture for large complex initiatives/projects. The role is responsible for the strategic design of technical solutions for complex business problems that align with established and emerging technology standards, patterns, and best practices. Primary accountability for architecture work takes place during the lifecycle of major transformation/modernization initiatives/projects, from planning through implementation. Provides technical oversight and strategic direction to IT project teams in order to deliver key solutions to business problems.

Responsibilities

• Leads the Solution Architecture deliverables for large complex portfolio, program or product line, aligning with enterprise architecture and linking high-level architecture, business requirements, and technology standards into a cohesive solution.
• Defines and communicates a shared technical and architecture vision across the portfolio/program.
• Provides foundational architecture and creates technical alignments for the full solution, balancing needs from both business and domain architecture.
• Has expert knowledge of integration solutions and communicates with business owners, domain architects, other Solution Architects, technical delivery staff, and key technical stakeholders, including Security, Data, and Technology Centers of Excellence.
• Collaborates with peer Solution Architects to ensure the proposed solution is consistent with other designs.
• Leads solution design incremental and analysis of complex projects/issues requiring in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments.
• Defines components and subsystem, end-to-end integration architecture and their interfaces, as well as the target deployment aligning with target architecture vision.
• Makes recommendations on critical design decisions and trade-offs.
• Ensures seamless integration of new applications with enterprise applications in the ecosystem by selecting technology, tools, or services that provide the best solution for business needs.
• Communicates solution architecture and drives its implementation.
• Defines and directs implementation governance activities to ensure solution architecture compliance with intent and overall enterprise architecture.
• Creates architecture and technical enablers to support architecture runways and ensures their implementation meets solution objectives.
• Partners with project managers, product managers, technical delivery managers, requirements managers, and business leadership in defining the Solution Architecture.
• Works closely with product managers and product owners to ensure a robust architecture runway that supports future business needs through the product lifecycle.
• Provides consulting support to domain architects and solution delivery teams to ensure projects and products align with overall enterprise architecture.
• Maintains knowledge of and applies industry best practices for architecture.
• Participates in cross-functional component architecture teams and develops future architecture and technology migration plans.
• Evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
• Innovates ideas and solutions resulting in tangible and measurable business outcomes.
• Creates architecture solutions within the enterprise architecture future state for technological acceleration of value outcomes and presents these to key decision makers.
• Oversees and drives third-party solution architecture engagements and outcomes.
• Provides solution architectural consulting to business leaders, program leaders, product owners, and delivery teams.
• Sets architectural solutions across multiple initiatives or domains aligned to platform/product roadmaps and facilitates implementation of approved solutions.
• Coaches peers and team members across multiple business and technology disciplines.

Requirements

• 10 years of experience as an infrastructure architect.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT-related field, or an additional 4 years of relevant work experience in lieu of the degree.
• Strong development and integration technology experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lead, coordinate, and manage complex projects.
• Solution architecture and integration architecture design experience.
• Deep understanding of emerging technologies, including cloud, big data, BPM, AI/ML, or robotics.
• Recent solution/domain architecture experience with Facets G6 real-time and batch claims processing, pre-adjudication validation, EDI-based transaction data management, claim editing engines, and third-party integrations with partner organizations that provide these services.
• Experiential knowledge of applying interoperability and integration best practices between Facets G6 and all data producers and data consumers within the enterprise ecosystem surrounding Facets G6.
• Experience with enterprise-level architecture refactoring to resolve architectural simplification and modernization, strengthening controls and resiliency in high-risk processes, reducing unnecessary complexity and integration hops, provider data improvements and rationalization, and legacy platform runout and retirement planning.
• Experience working with claims processing, enrollment, billing & payments, underwriting, partner programs, business operations, and benefit management business functions either in a commercial or government area (both preferred).
• Expertise with two or more architecture domains including enterprise architecture, solution architecture, software development, data, integration, interoperability, cloud, artificial intelligence and their associated architecture frameworks, standards/patterns, methods and tools.
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards such as HL7, FHIR, X12 and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, CMS, NCQA.
• Ability to motivate and influence others so that architecture objectives are met in a timely and consistent manner.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high-quality architecture solutions and technical designs based on approved standards.
• Effective organizational/interpersonal/relationship management, analytical/systems thinking, communications (written and verbal), and collaboration across multiple business and IT teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in the development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale systems, preferably across multiple hardware and software platforms in the healthcare industry.
• Experience with intranet development and implementation.
• Recent payer or provider healthcare experience.
• 8–10 years of solid experience in the HC payer space.
• Solid experience with Facets G6.
• Claims adjudication experience.
• Facets Integration Framework experience.
• Experience with data flow refactoring in claims and architecture of Facets G6.
• Facets customization experience.
• Development experience with Facets.
• Edifecs or GuidingCare (HealthEdge) experience.
• Experience streamlining data flows and batch processes.
• Experience with government and commercial healthcare programs.
• Low-level engineering design experience.
• Additional architecture experience in one or more technology platforms including Salesforce Health Cloud/Data Cloud, other healthcare-specific platforms, MuleSoft, Kafka, Azure Fabric.
• Experience overseeing and driving third-party solution architecture engagements and outcomes.
• Experience contributing to portfolio rationalization and/or technical debt remediation initiatives at an enterprise level.
• Ability to set architectural solutions across multiple initiatives or domains aligned to platform/product roadmaps and facilitate implementation of approved solutions.

About Varmoda

Varmoda is a federal IT solutions provider founded in 2020 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, delivering citizen-centric public services across Financial Assistance, Public Benefits, and Security & Defense domains. Our five-layer architecture — Salesforce (Engagement), Databricks (Data), ServiceNow (Orchestration), Pega (Decisioning), and Oracle HR (Capacity) — puts data at the common thread of every solution we build for federal agencies and the citizens they serve. Varmoda holds CMMI Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, and ISO 27001 certifications, and is recognized as a V3 veteran-friendly employer.