Solutions Architect I or II, DOE - Healthcare Services

Cambia Health Solutions; Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Health savings account contribution

Paid time off + 10 holidays

401(k) with company match

Paid parental time off

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Fund

Commute and parking benefits

Work from home options

Job summary

Cambia Health Solutions is seeking a Solutions Architect I or II to design scalable, secure architectures for member authentication and clinical integrations across healthcare workflows. You will guide technical strategy, establish performance benchmarks, and mentor delivery teams while aligning with HIPAA and regulatory requirements.

The role requires deep healthcare domain knowledge, experience with API-driven architectures, and strong collaboration with business stakeholders to translate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field with IT experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership and architecture experience (for SA I).
• 5+ years of IT experience and architecture leadership (for SA II).
• Understanding of health insurance/healthcare operations (care/utilization/appeals).
• Experience with API-based and integration-driven architectures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure architecture for authentication/authorization systems.
• Lead technical strategy for clinical integrations and internal applications.
• Establish benchmarks and monitoring for applications.
• Mentor developers and guide architecture direction.
• Document solutions within EA Modeling Environment.
• Engage in governance of architecture quality.

Skills

Healthcare architecture

API design

AWS

SQL

Data analysis

Team leadership

Interoperability (FHIR/HL7)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

OAuth

SAML

SSO

Job description

Solutions Architect I or II, DOE - Healthcare Services

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Portland, Vancouver, Renton, Medford, Burlington, Lewiston, Little Rock, and Springdale offices.

Preference will be given to current employees and candidates who reside within a commutable distance from our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Lewiston, Little Rock and Springdale offices or who are willing to relocate.

Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.

Who We Are Looking For:

Every day, Cambia’s dedicated team of Solutions Architects are living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the IT Architecture team, Cambia Architects provide authoritative advice to business executives and IT on how to best solve tough business and technical problems. You’ll focus on designing and evolving health care solutions that support Clinical workflows, including Care Management, Utilization Management, Appeals, and member and provider engagement. You’ll provide authoritative guidance on system architecture across web, mobile, integration, and data platforms to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with clinical and operational needs.

Do you have a passion for serving others and learning new things? Then this role may be the perfect fit.

What You Bring to Cambia:

Qualifications:

The Solutions Architect I would have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related/relevant field, plus seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at least three years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing end‑to‑end solutions in complex environments. This role requires a strong understanding of health insurance and healthcare operations, including areas such as care management, utilization management, appeals, and other services that support members, care teams, and clinical programs.

Preferred experience includes designing solutions that integrate multiple internal systems and external vendor platforms commonly used in healthcare environments. Familiarity with API‑based and integration‑driven architectures, authentication and authorization systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO), and HIPAA‑compliant solution design is preferred. Experience supporting applications and workflows used by members, providers, and care teams is a plus, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

The Solutions Architect II would have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related/relevant field, with an advanced degree preferred, plus seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at least five years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing complex, enterprise‑scale solutions. This role requires deep domain understanding of health insurance and healthcare service delivery, including care management, utilization management, appeals, clinical programs, and regulatory requirements.

The Solutions Architect II is expected to lead architecture across complex healthcare ecosystems that include core enterprise platforms, vendor solutions, and integration layers. Preferred experience includes healthcare interoperability and data exchange patterns, API‑driven architectures, security and privacy controls, and HIPAA‑compliant solution design. Experience designing solutions used by care teams, clinicians, operational staff, and external partners is strongly desired, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Attributes:

• Experience designing solutions that support health insurance operations or health services domains such as care management, utilization management, appeals, or clinical programs
• Familiarity with healthcare data exchange and integration patterns, including FHIR, HL7, X12/EDI, or equivalent interoperability approaches
• Experience working with vendor platforms and complex integration ecosystems common in healthcare
• API design and managementfor mobile and web consumption
• Experience with designing solutions in AWS
• Comfortable writing SQL and doing data analysis
• Comfortable creating prototype/POC solutions
• Experience with business process management (BPM) and business rules engines (BRE)
• Designing a variety of solutions - data pipelines, user interfaces, microservices, business process orchestrations
• Demonstrated understanding of complex systems integration issues involving many disparate data sources, and experience in resolving them through providing clear direction on scope of solution. Understands and resolves highly complex large scale or systems level problems. Able to quickly and efficiently solve such problems using team resources to coordinate solutions.
• Experience writing code to solve a broad range of problems of varying complexity
• Ability to work with business in their language to support and promote concepts
• Demonstrated high levels of personal output and ability to increase the productivity of architecture function
• Demonstrated interpersonal savvy, relates well to all kinds of people in the organization regardless of level, establishes trust and constructive relationships
• Demonstrated good decision quality, makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
• Demonstrated leadership skills for large projects in a technological field with a high emphasis on communicative and interpersonal relationship skills is required
• Demonstrated excellent negotiations skills with both internal and external groups including ability to settle differences with a minimum of noise and a maximum level of diplomacy and tact. Includes ability to influence without direct authority
• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision‑making in professional settings highly desired

What You Will Do at Cambia:

• Designs scalable, secure architecture for member authentication and authorization systems.
• Leads technical strategy for clinical integrations and various internal clinical applications.
• Establishes performance benchmarks and monitoring strategies for applications.
• Engages in business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archive and recovery strategy and security.
• Provides overall technical leadership to multiple business teams.
• Applies reference architectures and patterns to the architecture and design of technology solutions and services.
• Clearly documents all solutions within the EA Modeling Environment.
• Actively participates in the review and governance of architecture quality.
• Receives general feedback from management, customers, or other external sources and translates that feedback into an overall technical direction.
• Mentors developers in the definition of technology implementation strategies and provides assistance where needed in transitioning the technology to the delivery organization.

The expected hiring range for a Solutions Architect I is $114K - $143K/year depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history. The bonus target for this position is 15%. The current full salary range for this role is $114K - $186K/year.

The expected hiring range for a Solutions Architect II is $140K - $175K/year depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history. The bonus target for this position is 18%. The current full salary range for this role is $140K - $228K/year.

About Cambia

Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose‑driven, award‑winning culture built on trust and innovation anchored in our 100+ year history. Our caring and supportive colleagues are some of the best and brightest in the industry, innovating together toward sustainable, person‑focused health care. Whether we’re helping members, lending a hand to a colleague or volunteering in our communities, our compassion, empathy and team spirit always shine through.

Why Join the Cambia Team?

At Cambia, you can:

• Work alongside diverse teams building cutting‑edge solutions to transform health care.
• Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives.
• Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed.
• Give back to your community by participating in Cambia‑supported outreach programs.
• Connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds through our employee resource groups.

We believe a career at Cambia is more than just a paycheck – and your compensation should be too. Our compensation package includes competitive base pay as well as a market‑leading 401(k) with a significant company match, bonus opportunities and more.

In exchange for helping members live healthy lives, we offer benefits that empower you to do the same. Just a few highlights include:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
• Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
• Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company‑paid holidays.
• Market‑leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period).
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
• Award‑winning wellness programs that reward you for participation.
• Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
• Commute and parking benefits.

Learn more about our benefits.

We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.

As part of our security requirements, new hires will need access to a personal mobile device to set up Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA) upon joining the company. MFA is an important layer of protection for accessing Cambia systems and is required for all employees.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to a drug and tobacco‑free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. A background check is required.

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