Senior Solutions Architect - Healthcare Data Platform (Remote)

Smile Digital Health; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible PTO

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Life & disability

Employee assistance

FHIR study program

Team events

Job summary

Smile Digital Health is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect – Implementations to design scalable, standards-aligned healthcare data solutions using Smile Digital Health’s platform. You’ll work with enterprise clients during discovery and early design, guiding them toward the right architecture and ensuring alignment with Smile’s best practices.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires deep technical expertise, strong communication, and the ability to influence decisions in fast-moving

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, technical consulting, or solution architecture roles.
• Proven ability to lead customer-facing architecture and design discussions, especially with payer, provider, or government-aligned healthcare organizations.
• Demonstrated experience designing solutions involving real-time data ingestion technologies such as Kafka, Camel, Pulsar, and implementing FHIR-based data workflows.
• Strong understanding of clinical data modeling and terminology mapping (e.g., SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC).
• Experience with cloud-native architecture and deployment in AWS, Azure, or GCP using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and solutioning during discovery and early implementation phases, working directly with healthcare customers to surface unknowns, ask the right questions, and co-design scalable, standards-aligned solutions.
• Provide ongoing architectural oversight and hands-on technical guidance throughout the full implementation lifecycle and post-go-live.
• Evaluate customer-specific requirements and make technical recommendations around performance tuning, ingestion workflows, bundle design, and terminology mapping.
• Collaborate with internal teams to resolve architectural questions, validate patterns, and provide feedback that shapes future product improvements.
• Take ownership of evolving or refactoring designs when new constraints emerge during delivery.
• Participate in customer-facing meetings, design reviews, retrospectives, and change discussions; support technical communications during escalations.
• Contribute to internal architecture review boards, design documentation, reusable delivery assets, and solution playbooks.

Tools

Kafka

Camel

Pulsar

FHIR workflows

Job description

Smile Digital Health is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect – Implementations to design scalable, standards-aligned healthcare data solutions using Smile Digital Health’s platform. You’ll work with enterprise clients during discovery and early design, guiding them toward the right architecture and ensuring alignment with Smile’s best practices.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires deep technical expertise, strong communication, and the ability to influence decisions in fast-moving