Technical Architect

Talantir; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan w/

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Expion Health invites a Technical Architect to join a distributed team, shaping scalable, cost-efficient solutions for pharmacy cost management. You will partner with product, engineering, and business teams to define architecture roadmaps and drive implementation across cloud-native platforms.

You will lead design of complex systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate with sales and executives to articulate capabilities and strategy, ensuring alignment with cost-containment goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in the healthcare payer or PBM industry.
• 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering solutions for healthcare payers or PBMs.
• 8+ years in a solution architecture leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into scalable, efficient technology solutions.
• Define and maintain solution architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Lead design of complex systems, including integrations, data architecture, application design, and infrastructure.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

Communication with execs

Prototyping/POC

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Angular

.NET

Python

Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server

Docker

EKS

Job description

Job Title: Technical Architect

Location: Remote – Work-from-Home

Reports To: Chief Transformation Officer

Join us in powering the future of pharmacy cost containment!

Expion Health has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Architect. Our team is continuously expanding the boundaries of the healthcare industry through innovations that intersect data and technology and amplify human intelligence to result in better outcomes. We need people like you to join in our commitment to drive pure exponential value for our clients and partners.

Are you up for the challenge?

Position Summary

The Technical Architect partners with product, engineering, infrastructure, and pharmacy business teams to design scalable, costefficient solutions using consistent architectural patterns. This role identifies opportunities to optimize pharmacy operations, drives technologyenabled innovations, and ensures alignment with enterprise architecture standards. The Technical Architect also collaborates with sales and executive leadership to communicate product capabilities, define longterm technology strategy, and guide teams through current and futurestate architecture development. This position provides technical leadership throughout product development, resolves complex challenges, and ensures adherence to costcontainment strategies and architectural best practices.

Essential Functions

ArchitectureSolution Design

• Translate business requirements into scalable, efficient technology solutions.
• Define and maintain solution architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Lead design of complex systems, including integrations, data architecture, application design, and infrastructure.
• Ensure architectural standards, patterns, and guidelines are consistently applied across products.
• Develop currentstate and futurestate architectures for pharmacy costsaving solutions.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical guidance across cloud, microservices, DevOps, security, and emerging technologies.
• Resolve technical challenges during product development and commercialization.
• Promote best practices, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning within engineering teams.
• Educate teams on costcontainment processes and ensure product compliance with costsaving strategies.

BusinessStakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with pharmacy business stakeholders to identify processoptimization opportunities.
• Ideate and innovate new pharmacy solutions and technologysupported services.
• Work closely with the CTO to define longterm architecture strategy.
• Collaborate with sales to present solutions and architecture to executives and clients.

CommunicationPresentation

• Present product capabilities, architecture, and custom solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate technology roadmaps, current-state assessments, and solution strategies to executive leadership.
• Support product development and commercialization by ensuring technical readiness.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support organizational needs.

Required Expertise

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in the healthcare payer or PBM industry.
• 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering solutions for healthcare payers or PBMs.
• 8+ years in a solution architecture leadership role.
• 8+ years in handson architecture development and solution engineering.
• 3+ years collaborating with sales teams to present solutions.
• 8+ years communicating and ideating with executive leadership.
• Proven experience leading complex technology projects using technologies such as Angular, .NET, Entity Framework, Python, Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server, SQL, Docker, and EKS.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, architecture patterns, and best practices.
• Ability to perform proofofconcepts and develop implementable technical solutions.
• Strong analytical, problemsolving, writing, and presentation skills.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple projects.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and cloudnative architectures.

Preferred Skills

• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Adaptability and comfort with change.
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Selfstarter with strong initiative and goal orientation.
• Resourceful and effective in a remote work environment.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and deliver highquality results.

What It's Like to Work with Us

Expion Health has been challenging the industry status quo for over 30 years, leading with ground-breaking innovation in a wide variety of healthcare cost-management solutions. Embracing the latest opportunities that technology can offer within a rapidly evolving industry, we provide exceptional service, technology, and product innovation to meet greater challenges in healthcare cost management.

We have a distributed workforce so you can work from anywhere in the continental United States. Because of our distributed nature we have cultivated a connected culture that includes town halls, one-on-ones with executive leadership, educational forums, and even social clubs.

We offer comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Access to GLP-1 Navigator Weight Loss Program
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Healthcare Savings Account
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with Company Match
• Paid Time Off
• Phone and Internet Allowance
• Phone and Internet allowance

Expion Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.