Senior Solutions Architect- REMOTE

TEEMA; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Work Environment

Flexible PTO

Health/Medical Benefits

Job summary

TEEMA seeks an accomplished Solutions Architect to lead architectural design for healthcare implementations, focusing on real-time data ingestion, FHIR workflows, and scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will guide cross-functional teams through discovery, design reviews, and post-go-live optimization, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards and corporate roadmaps. A strong communicator comfortable with complex technical concepts is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, consulting, or solution architecture in healthcare.
• Proven lead of customer-facing architecture 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).
• Knowledge of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized deployments using HELM, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for translating complex concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Proficiency with diagramming tools like Lucidchart to communicate architecture and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and discovery with healthcare customers to define scalable solutions.
• Provide architectural oversight across the full implementation lifecycle and post-go-live.
• Assess requirements and optimize performance, ingestion workflows, and terminology mapping.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, Agile Leads, Solution Architects, and Technical Account Managers to resolve architectural questions.
• Evolve designs as delivery progresses addressing new constraints and deployment issues.
• Participate in design reviews, technical workshops, and escalation discussions providing clear guidance at key decisions points.
• Contribute to architecture governance and stay aligned with product roadmap and regulatory requirements (CMS interoperability).

Skills

Architecture leadership

Real-time ingestion

FHIR knowledge

Cloud-native

Stakeholder communication

Solution design

Tools

Kafka

Camel

Pulsar

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.