Software Architect
PANTHERx Rare, LLC.
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Job summary
PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy is seeking a Software Architect to lead the design of scalable, secure software solutions that support our rare-disease patient focus. You will collaborate with business and product teams to identify high-value opportunities, prototype innovative approaches, and guide initiatives from concept through early delivery.
The role requires strong .NET and Azure experience, architectural discipline, and proven leadership in complex environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering software solutions in complex environments.
- 3+ years in a technical leadership role such as architecture or principal engineering.
- Strong proficiency with .NET technologies and API design.
- Experience building cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Knowledge of architectural patterns, integration patterns, and software design principles.
- Experience with relational databases, data modeling, and data integration.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
Responsibilities
- Designs and oversees software solutions that support business operations and strategic initiatives.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify challenges and define high-value technology solutions.
- Translate complex business problems into scalable, secure architectures.
- Develop architectures for applications, integrations, data, and platforms aligned with standards.
- Create architecture diagrams, designs, and supporting documentation.
- Evaluate technologies and frameworks to support current and long-term goals.
- Provide technical leadership through discovery, design, prototyping, and implementation phases.
- Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, and design sessions.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and ready for long-term ownership.
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Job description
At PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy, every role contributes to improving the lives of people living with rare conditions. We’re looking for talented, compassionate professionals who want to make a difference. Explore opportunities where your work has purpose, impact, and room to grow.
Flexible work arrangements, competitive benefits, and a mission-driven culture make PANTHERx a place where careers thrive and meaningful work happens every day.
7,000 Diseases - 500 Treatments - 1 Rare Pharmacy
PANTHERx is the nation’s largest rare disease pharmacy, and we put the patient experience at the top of everything that we do.
If you are looking for a career in the healthcare field that embraces authentic dedication to patient care, you don’t need to look beyond PANTHERx. In every line of service, in every position and area of expertise, PANTHERx associates are driven to provide the highest quality outcomes for our patients.
We are seeking team members who:
Are inspired and compassionate problem solvers;
Produce high quality work;
Thrive in the excitement of the ever-challenging environment of modern medicine; and
Are committed to achieving superior health outcomes for people living with rare and devastating diseases.
At PANTHERx, we know our employees are the driving force in what we do. We cultivate talent and encourage growth within PANTHERx so that our associates can continue to explore their interests and expand their careers. Guided by our mission to provide uncompromising quality every day, we continue our strategic growth to further reach those affected by rare diseases.
Join the PANTHERx team, and define your own RxARE future in healthcare!
The Software Architect serves as a technology innovator, problem solver, and trusted advisor who works directly with business and product teams to identify opportunities for meaningful organizational improvement.
Rather than focusing solely on system design, this role helps discover high-value problems, explore innovative approaches, rapidly prototype solutions, and guide initiatives from concept through early delivery. The Software Architect combines broad technical expertise, strong communication skills, and business acumen to bridge the gap between ideas and implementation.
This role operates at the intersection of technology, operations, and business strategy, helping PANTHERx leverage data, automation, integration, and emerging technologies to improve outcomes, increase efficiency, and create organizational value.
The Software Architect acts as both a hands-on technologist and a facilitator, collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to transform complex challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
- Designs and oversees software solutions that support business operations, strategic initiatives, and organizational transformation efforts.
- Partners directly with business and product stakeholders to identify challenges, uncover opportunities, and define high-value technology solutions.
- Translates complex business problems into scalable, secure, maintainable, and practical technical solutions.
- Develops application, integration, data, and platform architectures that align with organizational standards and long-term technology objectives.
- Creates and maintains architecture diagrams, technical designs, reference architectures, and supporting documentation.
- Evaluates and recommends technologies, frameworks, tools, and platforms that support both immediate business needs and long-term strategic goals.
- Balances innovation with practicality, ensuring solutions can successfully transition to long-term ownership and support.
- Provides technical leadership throughout the discovery, design, prototyping, and implementation phases of technology initiatives.
- Leads architectural and technical decision-making for complex projects and enterprise solutions.
- Serves as a mentor and trusted advisor to software engineers, technical teams, and project stakeholders.
- Participates in architecture reviews, code reviews, design sessions, and technical planning activities.
- Establishes and promotes software engineering best practices, development standards, architectural principles, and design patterns.
- Guides teams through technical challenges, modernization initiatives, and solution delivery efforts.
- Supports the successful transition of solutions from early development through operational ownership by delivery teams.
- Maintains hands-on involvement in software design, development, integration, and implementation activities.
- Builds prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and production-ready software solutions to validate ideas and accelerate project delivery.
- Acts as the primary technical contributor during the early phases of initiatives, establishing foundational architecture, code patterns, and implementation approaches.
- Develops applications, APIs, integrations, automation solutions, analytics platforms, and cloud-native services as needed.
- Collaborates closely with development teams to ensure architectural vision is effectively executed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Works with DevOps and infrastructure teams to support deployment automation, monitoring, operational excellence, and solution reliability.
- Ensures solutions are designed for performance, scalability, maintainability, supportability, and long-term success.
- Partners with business stakeholders, product owners, operational teams, vendors, and technical teams to understand needs and define effective solutions.
- Facilitates discovery sessions, solution workshops, and technical discussions to align stakeholders around business objectives and solution strategies.
- Works across organizational boundaries to identify opportunities for automation, integration, process improvement, and technology enablement.
- Supports integration efforts involving enterprise applications, third-party platforms, APIs, messaging systems, data platforms, and cloud services.
- Collaborates with architecture, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to ensure alignment across initiatives.
- Communicates architectural decisions, technical recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Contributes to the development and maintenance of architecture standards, governance processes, development practices, and technology guidelines.
- Evaluates technical risks and provide mitigation recommendations.
- Identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiency, application performance, maintainability, security, and developer productivity.
- Supports technology roadmap planning and strategic architectural initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering software solutions in complex business environments.
- 3+ years of experience serving in a technical leadership role, including architecture, solution design, technical lead, or principal engineering responsibilities.
- Strong proficiency with .NET technologies and API design.
- Experience developing cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure services and platforms.
- Knowledge of application architecture patterns, integration patterns, and software design principles.
- Experience working with relational databases, data modeling, and data integration concepts.
- Proven ability to move from ambiguous problem statements to actionable solutions through discovery, prototyping, and implementation.
- Excellent verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience designing and implementing business process orchestration solutions, including workflow automation, BPMN-based process modeling, process execution, and long-running business workflows.
- Experience with React, modern front-end application development, and user experience considerations.
- Experience solutioning applications with features in artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, or intelligent automation solutions.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with containerization and Kubernetes platforms.
- Experience establishing architecture standards and governance practices.
Cloud architecture certifications or relevant technology certifications
This position works in a home office and professional office environment. When in-office this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines, and communications via MS Teams.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, see, talk, or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Visual acuity is necessary for tasks such as reading or working with various forms of data for extended periods. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Hybrid, remote and flexible on-site work schedules are available, based on the position. PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy also affords an excellent benefit package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, 401K with employer matching, employer-paid life insurance and short/long term disability coverage, and an Employee Assistance Program! Generous paid time off is also available to all full-time employees, as well as limited paid time off for part-time employees. Of course we offer paid holidays too!
PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotions or any term or condition of employment based on race, age, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran's status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
PANTHERx is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotions, or any term or condition of employment based on race, age, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran’s status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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