Gainwell Technologies

Principal Application Architect

Gainwell Technologies • $118K — $169K *
Wrangell, AK 99929In-Person
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10+ years in application architecture/product development.
  • Experience with TOGAF architecture frameworks and healthcare enterprise architecture strongly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of software systems, applications, and cloud technologies.
  • Expertise in programming languages, databases, and SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills for mentoring and collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Define and validate functional requirements for Provider+ applications.
  • Lead design and review discussions to ensure solutions meet requirements.
  • Oversee domain configuration and alignment with approved designs.
  • Serve as SME during system integration and user acceptance testing phases.
  • Ensure operational readiness for production deployment.

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity within the United States.
  • Generous and flexible vacation policy.
  • 401(k) employer match.
  • Comprehensive health benefits.
  • Educational assistance for continued learning and development.
Full Job Description
Summary

As an Principal Application Architectat Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve - a community's most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare's biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

Your role in our mission

  • Requierements Validation (RV)
    The Domain Lead is responsible for defining and validating Provider+ functional requirements and ensuring requirements are complete, accurate, and testable.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Owning and managing Provider+ functional requirements.
    • Leading requirement validation discussions and client review sessions.
    • Ensuring acceptance criteria and "How Requirement is Met" documentation are complete and accurate.
    • Maintaining requirement metadata, dependencies, system components, and configuration mapping.
    • Facilitating requirement demonstrations with project teams.
    • Reviewing and validating Business Process Models (BPMs).
    • Managing Business Rules Questionnaires to capture client-specific rules.
    • Tracking decisions, assumptions, risks, issues, and gaps.
    • Enforcing documentation quality, governance, and traceability standards.
    • Managing DEV environment readiness, smoke testing, and release validation.
    • Supporting Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) development.

    Design
    The Domain Lead drives solution design activities and ensures the proposed solution fully satisfies approved requirements.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Planning and facilitating design workshops and review sessions.
    • Managing completion of design documentation and business rule artifacts.
    • Coordinating design demonstrations and client reviews.
    • Addressing and resolving design comments and feedback.
    • Ensuring alignment across interfaces, reports, workflows, letters, and security components.
    • Supporting Product Change Requests (CRs) identified during requirements or design activities.
    • Creating Solution Design Documents (SDDs) as required.
    • Maintaining Configuration Workbooks and design artifacts.

    Build / Configuration
    The Domain Lead oversees domain configuration and ensures build activities align with approved designs and business requirements.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Leading Provider+ configuration planning and execution.
    • Overseeing configuration for enrollment, maintenance, revalidation, and related processes.
    • Ensuring configuration aligns with approved design and documented business rules.
    • Producing or validating unit testing outcomes.
    • Coordinating client-facing build demonstrations.
    • Governing configuration changes and change-control processes.

    System Integration Testing (SIT)
    The Domain Lead serves as the functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) during testing.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Reviewing test cases for requirement and acceptance criteria coverage.
    • Providing Provider+ SME support during SIT execution.
    • Supporting defect investigation, root cause analysis, and resolution.
    • Validating that fixes align with intended business outcomes.
    • Tracking resolution of functional gaps across Product and Implementation teams.

    User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
    The Domain Lead supports business validation activities and readiness for production.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Providing functional SME support during UAT.
    • Assisting with user questions, training validation, and defect resolution.
    • Verifying solution readiness against documented requirements.
    • Supporting retesting and final issue disposition activities.

    Operational Readiness Review (ORR)
    The Domain Lead contributes to organizational and operational preparedness for production deployment.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Supporting environment, process, resource, and operational readiness activities.
    • Providing Provider+ input to client ORR reviews.
    • Supporting parallel and performance testing activities.
    • Assisting with cutover planning and transition-to-operations readiness.

    Cross-Phase Leadership Responsibilities
    Throughout the project lifecycle, the Domain Lead ensures continuity, governance, and alignment across all teams and deliverables.
    Key responsibilities include:
    • Maintaining end-to-end traceability from requirements through testing.
    • Managing domain-level RAID logs, decisions, and action items.
    • Coordinating across Product, AD&I, Training, Testing, and Technical teams.
    • Supporting knowledge transfer activities, SOP development, and hypercare readiness.
    • Serving as the primary functional authority for the Provider+ domain from project initiation through go-live and stabilization.


What we're looking for

  • Ten or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience.
  • Experience working with:
    • Architecture framework methodologies such as TOGAF.
    • Software systems, applications, and supporting infrastructure.
    • Application design principles and product configurations.
    • Programming languages, databases, tooling, operating systems, infrastructure, and cloud technologies, as relative to any given Account.
    • Software development lifecycles and client requirements.
    • Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced personnel.
    • Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, application development personnel and management.
    • Strongly Preferred - Enterprise Architecture experience within a Healthcare environment.
  • Driving of Enterprise Architecture initiatives for large Accounts, State and Federal Accounts.
  • Producing technical roadmaps, architecture diagrams, and supporting documentation.
  • Conducting technical research, testing, and evaluation of complex IT systems.
  • Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile.


What you should expect in this role

  • United States remote opportunity
  • Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
  • The Deadline to submit applications for this posting is August 28, 2026

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The pay range for this position is $118,800.00 - $169,700.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

About Gainwell Technologies

Gainwell Technologies offerings including Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), fiscal agent services, program integrity, care management, immunization registry, and eligibility services. With over 50 years of proven experience, Gainwell carries forward a reputation for technological innovation, service excellence, and unparalleled industry expertise in offering clients scalable and flexible health and human services solutions for their most complex challenges.

Gainwell Technologies Careers

There has never been a more opportune time to join Gainwell Technologies, a leader in providing cutting-edge technology solutions. As a hub of innovation and diversity, Gainwell Technologies offers a plethora of job opportunities aimed at enhancing the digital landscape.

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Join Gainwell Technologies' esteemed team to assist some of the most prominent organizations in mastering their technological advancements and digital transformations. At Gainwell Technologies, the focus is on leveraging a unique blend of technology, industry expertise, and digital innovation to lead the market. Professionals at Gainwell Technologies are positioned uniquely at the crossroads of technology and consulting, driving leadership and growth in various sectors through transformative solutions.

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The team is dedicated to building a leading-edge environment that fosters professional growth and innovation. Gainwell Technologies is not just about addressing the current needs of the market but also about foreseeing and shaping the future of technology.

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At Gainwell Technologies, employees engage in groundbreaking work at the intersection of technology and practical application. The company is home to a large group of dedicated professionals who are committed to delivering robust solutions on trusted platforms.

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Embark on a career journey with Gainwell Technologies where the sky is the limit. The company supports ambitious professionals with comprehensive training, development programs, and diverse certification opportunities designed to future-proof careers in the technology sector.

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