Solutions Architect

About the role

Zelis Payments is hiring two Solution Architects to be embedded directly within the Commercial Growth & Partnerships organization. This role is not a traditional engineering seat but sits at the intersection of commercial strategy and technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the commercial team to rapidly prototype and validate new product and integration concepts.
• Translate business and partner conversations into working technical demonstrations that can be reviewed, approved, and handed to scale engineering.
• Build PoC integrations with strategic partners across provider network, clearinghouse, and patient financial engagement use cases — translating partner requirements into working technical demonstrations.
• Develop lightweight prototypes for new payment and financial product concepts including flexible and intuitive billing capabilities — fast enough to test the idea, clean enough to hand off to scale engineering.
• Participate in partner and client conversations where your technical perspective shapes the direction of the build.
• Design and build integration enhancements that directly unlock commercial growth.
• Help ready commercial growth initiatives for scaling within complex platforms — ensuring build requirements are sharper, architecture decisions are pre-socialized, and the path to formal engineering delivery is shorter.
• Navigate through bank integrations, payment workflows, ledgering, and leveraging sub-accounts and wallets — designing the full funds flow from capital facility through settlement and repayment.
• Collaborate with the product team on a flexible and intuitive billing system — integration and commercial feature development.
• Work directly with product leadership and solution architects to define requirements, validate architectural decisions, and produce the documentation that enables formal engineering intake.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on payments, fintech, or healthcare technology.
• Payments orchestration build experience — demonstrated hands-on work with ACH, real-time rails, card payment processing, or payment file architecture.
• API-based integration fluency — REST and event-driven architectures, with experience designing both synchronous and asynchronous data flows.
• File-based integration experience — EDI, healthcare transaction files (835/837), or equivalent healthcare and payments file formats.
• Comfort with funds flow design concepts: subaccount structures, ledger-based accounting, and payment reconciliation.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment where compliance, security, and audit trails are non-negotiable.
• Familiarity with ACH operating rules, PCI standards, or HIPAA is a plus.
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services in a high-volume transactional environment.
• Onshore, US-based.

Preferred

• Background in healthcare payments or financial technology — understanding of how payers, providers, and payment intermediaries interact is a meaningful advantage.
• Experience contributing to or reviewing architecture decisions in cross-functional teams.
• Comfort working in ambiguity — these roles operate at the front edge of commercial development where requirements evolve quickly.
• Strong written communication — you will produce documentation, requirements, and technical summaries that business and technology stakeholders both read.
• Experience leveraging advanced AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate delivery while keeping human judgment in control.
• Background in startup or high-growth environment — comfortable with a fast-feedback, high-ownership work model.
• Track record of influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority — able to drive alignment through practical, hands-on guidance.