Solutions Architect - Hybrid

At Mission Pet Health, our passion for pets and their families fuels our ambition to build the world's greatest veterinary organization. We are scaling toward 1,000 hospitals and 20,000+ teammates, and the data behind that growth runs across hundreds of clinical, financial, HR, and marketing systems.

About the role

We're hiring a Solutions Architect to own the end-to-end design of the platform that ties it all together — and to stay hands-on while doing it. This is a hybrid opening in Birmingham, AL.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture for the data platform end-to-end — ingestion, storage, modeling, serving, and governance.
• Set the direction for our analytical layer on SQL Server, SSAS, and ClickHouse, and for our integration fabric across Azure Data Factory, REST APIs, NATS, and CDC.
• Design and operate event-driven, service-oriented workloads on Kubernetes in Go and Python.
• Make AI-driven development a core focus of the team: build and adopt agentic tooling (code-aware agents, retrieval over our own schemas and lineage) so engineers ship faster, with better tests and documentation, and so routine work gets automated rather than repeated.
• Define the data contracts, schema standards, and quality SLAs that engineering and analytics teams build against.
• Embed PII/PHI handling, access control, and auditability into the platform.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and translate executive intent into delivery roadmaps.

Requirements

• 8+ years across data engineering, software engineering, or platform architecture.
• Deep hands-on experience with T-SQL, SQL Server at scale, SSAS, and Azure Data Factory.
• Production experience with ClickHouse (or a comparable columnar engine such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks).
• Strong production-grade skills in Python, Go, or a comparable backend language — and the discipline to write the code, not just the diagrams.
• Comfort designing event-driven systems (REST, NATS or Kafka, CDC) and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Genuine fluency with AI-assisted engineering — coding agents, LLM tooling, retrieval, evals — and a point of view on how to do it responsibly inside a regulated, multi-site business.
• A track record of partnering with executives and turning ambiguous business problems into durable technical designs.
• Reside in or be willing to relocate to Birmingham, Alabama and work onsite.

Nice to have

• Veterinary, healthcare, or multi-site retail/services experience, particularly with Practice Information Management Systems (PIMS).