Principal Architect

Harris Computer; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Digital Health, part of the N. Harris Computer Corporation family, seeks a Principal Architect to lead architectural strategy across software solutions, guiding frameworks, platforms, and patterns to meet strategic goals.

You will direct development organizations and mentor a team to deliver scalable healthcare technology solutions. The role requires visionary leadership, deep technical acumen, and a commitment to fostering growth, mentorship, and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure

Qualifications

• Ten+ years of relevant work experience in software architecture.
• Expert in architectural definition for complex software solutions.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with governance and quality processes.

Responsibilities

• Direct development organizations in framework and design pattern selections.
• Propose robust technical solutions with lifecycle management.
• Ensure software quality and stable environments.
• Stay current with industry standards and third-party software.
• Perform technical reviews and enforce architectural compliance.
• Engage stakeholders and communicate project status.
• Mentor architects and developers; recruit and develop talent.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural governance

Design patterns

Stakeholder communication

Team mentorship

Enterprise software

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related discipline

Master's Degree

Job description

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

A global healthcare IT innovator, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to connect and inspire healthier communities. Our platform approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered. By keeping the human user at the center of our design methodology, we are supporting caregivers and helping patients meet and exceed their wellness goals. Together, with our clients, we’re driving a new era of healthcare.

Altera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by local law.

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To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com.

Our commitment to fair and equitable hiring. As part of our recruitment process, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools during the initial screening phase to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely align with the requirements of the role. This technology supports efficiency and consistency in the early stages, but it never replaces human judgement. All subsequent evaluations and final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment professionals. AI does not make final hiring decisions.