Lead Architect

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

The Lead Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and evolving scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing Solution Architectures that align with the organization's business objectives, technology standards, architectural principles, and Target State Architectures.

Accountabilities include:

• Define and execute architecture strategies and roadmaps that enable business capabilities and outcomes while advancing the organization toward its Target State Architectures.
• Provide architecture leadership across assigned initiatives and domains, guiding solution teams from concept through implementation and ensuring alignment with established architecture roadmaps and strategic direction.
• Develop end-to-end architectural designs and solution patterns that are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards and cloud-native principles.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to engineers, solution architects, and technology teams, promoting architecture standards, reusable patterns, and Target State adoption.
• Partner with cross-functional business and technology teams to translate business strategies and requirements into effective architecture solutions, identifying appropriate trade-offs across capability, cost, complexity, risk, and speed to market.
• Facilitate architecture discussions and decision-making across business, product, engineering, data, security, infrastructure, and technology leadership teams to establish alignment, resolve technical challenges, and drive solutions forward.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, tools, and architecture patterns to identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, automation, and improved business and technology outcomes, with an emphasis on cloud-native and cloud-first approaches.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, identify architectural gaps, technical debt, risks, and modernization opportunities, and recommend actionable improvements.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working as a Solution Architect, Lead Architect, or in a comparable architecture role.
• 7+ years of technology design and development experience using modern technology stacks, including significant experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Demonstrated experience designing cloud-native solutions using modern application, API, integration, event-driven, data, and infrastructure patterns.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to decompose complex business and technical challenges, identify root causes, evaluate alternatives, and develop pragmatic solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with and/or professional certification in one or more major cloud platforms, including GCP, Azure, or AWS, is preferred.
• Experience leading or supporting large-scale modernization programs, including migrations from legacy platforms to modern, cloud-based architectures, is preferred.
• Experience with healthcare technology, particularly Medicare, Medicaid, Dual-Eligible populations, and/or government programs, is preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience required.

Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is: $106,605.00 - $260,590.00

Benefits This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families.