Job Summary
Senior Solutions Architect- REMOTE
TeemaGroup
Contract, Full-time - Temp to Hire
Remote | TX, United States
Some of the benefits we offer (once the role is permanent):
• Remote Work Environment
• Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days
• Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
• Life and Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
• Super HAPI Fun Club
Responsibilities:
• Lead architectural design and solutioning during discovery and early implementation phases, partnering with healthcare customers to uncover requirements and design scalable, standards-aligned solutions.
• Provide architectural oversight across the full implementation lifecycle and post–go-live, ensuring solutions remain aligned with Smile’s best practices, technical standards, and platform capabilities.
• Assess customer-specific requirements and recommend approaches for performance optimization, data ingestion workflows, bundle design, and terminology mapping.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, Agile Leads, Solution Architects, and Technical Account Managers to resolve architectural questions and validate implementation patterns.
• Adapt and evolve solution designs as delivery progresses, addressing new constraints, scalability challenges, and deployment issues.
• Participate in customer-facing engagements including design reviews, technical workshops, retrospectives, and escalation discussions, providing clear technical direction at key decision points.
• Contribute to internal architecture governance through design reviews, documentation, and reusable solution assets, while staying current with Smile’s product roadmap and relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., CMS interoperability mandates).
Requirements:
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, technical consulting, or solution architecture, supporting complex healthcare implementations.
• Proven ability to lead customer-facing architecture and design discussions with payer, provider, or government healthcare organizations.
• Experience designing solutions involving real-time data ingestion technologies such as Kafka, Camel, or Pulsar, and implementing FHIR-based data workflows.
• Strong understanding of clinical data models and healthcare terminology standards (e.g., SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC), including their use across ingestion, transformation, and API layers.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized deployments using technologies such as HELM, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and adapt solution designs as new constraints, requirements, or implementation challenges emerge.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency with solution diagramming tools such as Lucidchart (or equivalent) to clearly communicate architecture, system interactions, and data flows.