Principal Architect

Altera Digital Health Inc.; North Carolina; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Digital Health is seeking a Principal Architect to provide high-caliber technical leadership across our healthcare software solutions. You will own architectural approaches, guide development teams, mentor architects, and ensure scalable, robust, and compliant delivery of Sunrise, Paragon and related systems.

This senior role demands deep domain knowledge, strong communication with stakeholders, and the ability to drive architectural governance, design patterns, and best practices across

Qualifications

• Total Years of Experience: 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Relevant Technical Experience: 2-3 years at an Expert level or equivalent in a relevant technical domain; 5+ years of practical experience designing and building enterprise or distributed software systems.
• Mandatory Skills: Demonstrated expertise in technical leadership and ownership of architectural definition for complex software solutions; proficiency with architectures, patterns, and framework choices; strong communication and mentorship abilities.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Vision & Strategy: Direct development organizations in selection and use of technical frameworks, platforms, and design patterns.
• Solution Design & Integrity: Propose robust technical solutions, ensure they can be built, deployed, and maintained within timelines and budgets.
• Quality & Stability Assurance: Improve software quality and maintain stable environments for development teams.
• Industry Expertise & Innovation: Stay current with technology standards and emerging third-party software to advise on best practices.
• Architectural Governance: Conduct detailed technical reviews to enforce architectural compliance.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Communicate architecture concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and contribute to proposals and RFIs/RFPs.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor developers and architects, recruit talent, set objectives and provide feedback.

Job description

About Altera

Altera, a member of the N. Harris Computer Corporation family, delivers health IT solutions that support caregivers around the world. These include the Sunrise™, Paragon Daneli, TouchWorks EHR, Altera Opal, Ventus, HealthQuest™ and dbMotion™ solutions. At the intersection of technology and the human experience, Altera Digital Health is driving a new era of healthcare, in which innovation and expertise can elevate care delivery and inspire healthier communities across the globe. A new age in healthcare technology has just begun.

Job Title

Principal Architect

Location

US (Remote)

Employment Type

Full-time

About Altera

Altera, a member of the N. Harris Computer Corporation family, delivers health IT solutions that support caregivers around the world. These include the Sunrise™, Paragon Daneli, TouchWorks EHR, Altera Opal, Ventus, HealthQuest™ and dbMotion™ solutions. At the intersection of technology and the human experience, Altera Digital Health is driving a new era of healthcare, in which innovation and expertise can elevate care delivery and inspire healthier communities across the globe. A new age in healthcare technology has just begun.

Position Summary

As a Principal Architect at Altera, you will provide the highest caliber of technical leadership, owning the definition of architectural approaches across our software solutions to meet strategic company and customer goals. This pivotal role demands an expert who can direct development organizations, champion best practices, and mentor a team of architects and developers, ensuring the delivery of innovative, high-quality, and scalable healthcare technology solutions. An ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with deep technical acumen and a passion for driving architectural excellence and fostering team growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Vision & Strategy: Direct development organizations in the appropriate selection and use of technical frameworks, platforms, and design patterns. Provide guidance on best practices and tool usage in the design and build of technical frameworks and applications.


• Solution Design & Integrity: Propose robust technical solutions, ensuring their integrity, and that they can be built, implemented, and maintained within timelines and budgets. Act as the technical design authority, driving benchmarking, installation, upgrade, configuration, deployment, and testing activities for complex technical areas.


• Quality & Stability Assurance: Identify innovative approaches to improve software quality and ensure development teams operate in a stable, productive environment with minimal rework due to architectural changes or evolving products.


• Industry Expertise & Innovation: Stay abreast of industry changes in technology standards, information management, development standards, methods, and emerging 3rd party software to advise on technology and leverage best practices in the design and construction of Altera software products.


• Architectural Governance: Perform detailed technical reviews to ensure adherence to the overall architectural philosophy. Define and enforce procedures and checkpoints to monitor architectural compliance.


• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Assist Project Management in planning technical aspects, provide regular updates on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies. Evangelize the Architecture and Design of Altera software products to customers, effectively articulating and presenting the benefits and technical advantages of Altera solutions to technical and non-technical customers and internal staff. Contribute to proposals, RFIs, and RFPs, and provide high-level estimates for proposed solutions.


• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Support and mentor individual developers and architects. Identify and recruit internal/external talent, induct new joiners, set and communicate team/individual objectives and KPIs, allocate workload, implement development plans, coach individuals, provide constructive feedback, recognize high performers, and foster team spirit.

Role Requirements

• Total Years of Experience: 10+ years of relevant work experience.


• Relevant Technical Experience:2-3 years at an Expert level or equivalent experience in a relevant technical domain.5+ years of practical experience designing and building enterprise or distributed software systems.


• Mandatory Skills: Demonstrated expertise in technical leadership and ownership of architectural definition for complex software solutions. Profound knowledge and hands-on experience with technical frameworks, platforms, and design patterns. Strong background in architecture and design principles, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and robust. Proven ability to act as a technical design authority, driving complex technical initiatives. Experience with software quality improvement processes and ensuring development stability. Up-to-date industry knowledge of technology standards, information management, development methodologies, and emerging 3rd party software. Experience performing detailed technical reviews and enforcing architectural compliance. Exceptional communication, presentation, and evangelization skills for both technical and non-technical audiences. Proven leadership and mentorship capabilities, including talent identification, coaching, performance management, and team building. Mastered proficiency in Client Service, Quality Focus, Results Orientation, Accountability, Communications, and Collaboration.


• Preferred Skills: Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent. Master's Degree.