Senior Solutions Architect- REMOTE

TeemaGroup; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Work Environment

Flexible Time Away From Work Policy

Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits

Life and Disability

Employee Assistance Program

FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning

Super HAPI Fun Club

Job summary

A healthcare solutions firm in Houston is seeking a skilled architect to lead design and solutioning during implementation phases. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software engineering and must be proficient in real-time data ingestion technologies and clinical data models. You will collaborate with various teams, ensuring solutions are scalable and optimized for healthcare implementations. Strong communication skills are essential for success in this role, which offers competitive benefits and a remote work environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture.
• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions with healthcare organizations.
• Experience designing solutions involving real-time data ingestion technologies.
• Strong understanding of clinical data models and healthcare terminology standards.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native environments and containerized deployments.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design during implementation phases.
• Provide architectural oversight across full implementation lifecycle.
• Assess customer requirements and recommend optimization approaches.
• Collaborate with various teams to resolve architectural questions.
• Participate in customer-facing engagements and provide technical direction.
• Contribute to internal architecture governance and stay current with product roadmap.
• 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).

Skills

Software engineering experience

Technical consulting

Solution architecture

Data ingestion technologies

Clinical data models

Cloud-native environments

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Lucidchart

Docker

HELM

Kubernetes

Kafka

Camel

Pulsar

AWS

Azure

GCP

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

Lucidchart

Job description

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.