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Technical Architect / Healthcare Claims
We are seeking a Technical Architect to provide architectural leadership and technical direction within an assigned business or application area. This role ensures solution development aligns with enterprise architecture vision and roadmap while supporting scalable, secure, and sustainable delivery. The Technical Architect works closely with business and IT leadership, mentors development teams, and drives architectural decisions across multiple domains including application, infrastructure, and data architecture.
REQUIRED: Healthcare Claims experience
100% remote role.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Technical Architect to provide architectural leadership and technical direction within an assigned business or application area. This role ensures solution development aligns with enterprise architecture vision and roadmap while supporting scalable, secure, and sustainable delivery. The Technical Architect works closely with business and IT leadership, mentors development teams, and drives architectural decisions across multiple domains including application, infrastructure, and data architecture.
REQUIRED: Healthcare Claims experience
100% remote role.
Responsibilities
- Translate business strategy and architectural vision into implementable solutions and features
- Drive technology vision within assigned application or business area
- Evaluate new technologies, platforms, and third-party solutions for roadmap alignment
- Guide architecture and technical design through consensus and approval
- Establish and maintain technical standards across applications and teams
- Partner with Agile teams during Program Increment (PI) planning and delivery
- Mentor and coach developers; provide hands-on architectural guidance
- Identify, communicate, and resolve architectural risks and trade-offs
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture groups to support standards and governance
- Support special projects and additional duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 8 years of experience in application, infrastructure, or data architecture
- Hands-on experience with both greenfield development and legacy system modernization
- 1 year leading architecture and software design for development teams
- Experience working in Agile environments; SAFe experience preferred
- Experience with CI/CD practices and DevOps pipelines
- Experience using open-source technologies in enterprise environments
- Strong ability to translate business needs into architectural solutions
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Ability to balance long-term architecture strategy with short-term delivery needs
- Microservices-based architectures
- Containerization and orchestration platforms
- Virtual machines and hybrid/cloud environments