Solutions Architect I or II, DOE - Healthcare Services

About the role

Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system. As a member of the IT Architecture team, you'll focus on designing and evolving health care solutions that support Clinical workflows, including Care Management, Utilization Management, Appeals, and member and provider engagement.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve health care solutions that support Clinical workflows, including Care Management, Utilization Management, Appeals, and member and provider engagement.
• Provide authoritative guidance on system architecture across web, mobile, integration, and data platforms to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with clinical and operational needs.
• Lead technical strategy for clinical integrations and various internal clinical applications.
• Establish performance benchmarks and monitoring strategies for applications.
• Engage in business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archive and recovery strategy and security.
• Provide overall technical leadership to multiple business teams.
• Apply reference architectures and patterns to the architecture and design of technology solutions and services.
• Clearly document all solutions within the EA Modeling Environment.
• Participate in the review and governance of architecture quality.
• Mentor developers in the definition of technology implementation strategies and provide assistance where needed in transitioning the technology to the delivery organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related/relevant field, plus seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at least three years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing end-to-end solutions in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of health insurance and healthcare operations, including areas such as care management, utilization management, appeals, and other services that support members, care teams, and clinical programs.
• Familiarity with API-based and integration-driven architectures, authentication and authorization systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO), and HIPAA-compliant solution design is preferred.
• Experience supporting applications and workflows used by members, providers, and care teams is a plus, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Attributes

• Experience designing solutions that support health insurance operations or health services domains such as care management, utilization management, appeals, or clinical programs.
• Familiarity with healthcare data exchange and integration patterns, including FHIR, HL7, X12/EDI, or equivalent interoperability approaches.
• Experience working with vendor platforms and complex integration ecosystems common in healthcare.
• Experience with designing solutions in AWS.
• Experience with writing SQL and doing data analysis.
• Experience with business process management (BPM) and business rules engines (BRE).
• Experience designing a variety of solutions - data pipelines, user interfaces, microservices, business process orchestrations.
• Experience writing code to solve a broad range of problems of varying complexity.
• Experience working with business in their language to support and promote concepts.
• High levels of personal output and ability to increase the productivity of architecture function.
• Interpersonal savvy, relates well to all kinds of people in the organization regardless of level, establishes trust and constructive relationships.
• Good decision quality, makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment.
• Leadership skills for large projects in a technological field with a high emphasis on communicative and interpersonal relationship skills.
• Excellent negotiations skills with both internal and external groups including ability to settle differences with a minimum of noise and a maximum level of diplomacy and tact.
• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision-making in professional settings is highly desired.

Pay

• Solutions Architect I: $114K - $143K/year
• Solutions Architect II: $140K - $175K/year

Schedule

• Hybrid (In office 3 days/week)
• Within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah