Senior Solutions Architect Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Portland, Vancouver, Renton, Medford, Burlington, Lewiston offices. Preference will be given to current employees and candidates who reside within a commutable distance from our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo and Lewiston offices or who are willing to relocate. 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. They lead the investigation of new technologies (applications, systems, software, hardware, etc.) which are being contemplated to solve a problem, or when it is unclear which existing technologies to use or how to tie them together. The Architect will communicate, mentor and collaborate with development staff on the implementation of the new technologies. The Senior Architect will work with varying individuals and teams of the senior staff and executive team.
Do you thrive as a part of a collaborative, caring team? Then this role may be the perfect fit.
What You Bring to Cambia:As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will work at the intersection of healthcare transformation, business strategy, and technology innovation. You will partner directly with business leaders, product teams, engineers, and executive stakeholders to solve some of the industry's most complex challenges across care management, utilization management, appeals, provider engagement, interoperability, and digital healthcare experiences.
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Drive meaningful impact at scale by designing solutions that improve experiences for members, providers, care teams, and communities.
- Influence enterprise strategy through architecture leadership, technology roadmaps, and future-state platform design across critical healthcare capabilities.
- Advance healthcare innovation by helping shape next-generation solutions that leverage AI, automation, analytics, interoperability, and modern cloud technologies.
- Solve complex business challenges through collaboration with senior leaders, business partners, and cross-functional technology teams.
- Lead transformation initiatives that modernize healthcare operations, enable digital experiences, and create more connected, intelligent healthcare ecosystems.
Qualifications: The
Senior Solutions Architect would have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related/relevant field with an advanced degree preferred plus twelve years in IT with a minimum of two to three years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at minimum of seven years' experience evaluating business requirements and designing complete systems solutions in complex environments plus strong business understanding including health insurance technologies and regulations. Experience in the health insurance industry, payer-oriented processes and systems is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Skills and Attributes:- Demonstrated architecture experience in a single business unit to line of business or single technology field.
- Domain expert in one or more major platform and relevant technologies and how those platforms relate to overall technology infrastructure.
- Possesses comprehensive understanding of competitor's products and related technologies how those products and technologies compare with existing technologies.
- 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.
- Proficient at writing code to solve a broad range of problems of varying complexity.
- Demonstrated functional and technical skills including the ability to architect effective solutions for a growing Software as a Service company.
- Ability to apply verbal, written and persuasive communication skills to influence others both individually and groups.
- Proficient in utilization of audio/visual tools to effectively present to groups and capable of communicating technical information to other functions or groups both inside and outside of the organization.
- Ability to successfully influence and lead project direction and work with peers to implement ideas and concepts.
- 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 excellent problem-solving skills and uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
- Demonstrated good decision quality, makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment.
- Capable of leading multiple product teams to implement product strategies throughout engineering. Ability to actively support and influence product family objectives.
- 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.
What You Will Do at Cambia: - Participate as a key member of an agile team to collaborate with the business, understand the business needs and impacts. Recommend effective solutions.
- Partners with key internal customers, and industry contacts to develop stronger understanding of industry trends/customer needs.
- Engage in business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archive and recovery strategy and security.
- Leads in the process of setting future technical strategies and actively adjusts strategic direction for products in reaction to business needs or industry trends. Champion the installation and implementation of new technologies through their initiation phase providing a strategy for implementation and working to ensure a successful maintenance hand-off."
- Provides overall technical leadership to multiple product teams.
- Responsible for the design of the technology solutions based on project requirements and reference architectures and design patterns.
- Challenges and refines Cambia's agile process and follows Cambia's architecture processed to increase efficiency and productivity. May develop new process components and methodologies to meet current and future needs.
- Applies reference architectures and patterns to the architecture and design of technology solutions and services.
- Clearly documents all solution within the EA Modeling Environment.
- Actively participates in the review and governance of architecture quality.
- Accurately estimates resources and time scales needed to implement a project or plan a service implementation.
- Audits project status to ensure technical and process excellence.
- Acts as a key resource to Cambia IT and to other functional groups on technical matters.
- Receives general feedback from management, customers, or other external sources and translates that feedback into an overall technical direction.
- Mentor developers in the definition of technology implementation strategies and provide assistance where needed in transitioning the technology to the delivery organization.
- Aligns individual project roles with this direction to drive towards completion. Foresees future direction and aligns current activities in alignments with this direction. Takes responsibility for updating own skills and technical growth.
Pay ranges vary based on the candidate's work location. The expected hiring range depends on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history.
Senior Solutions Architect: - Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho: The expected hiring range is $152K - $192K, the full salary range is $87K - $142K, and the bonus target is 20%.
- North Dakota: The expected hiring range is $148K - $196K, and the full salary range is $148K - $245K.
