Lead architectural design and solutioning during discovery and early implementation phases, partnering with healthcare customers to uncover requirements and design scalable, standards-aligned solutions.
Provide architectural oversight across the full implementation lifecycle and post–go-live, ensuring solutions remain aligned with Smile’s best practices, technical standards, and platform capabilities.
Assess customer-specific requirements and recommend approaches for performance optimization, data ingestion workflows, bundle design, and terminology mapping.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, Agile Leads, Solution Architects, and Technical Account Managers to resolve architectural questions and validate implementation patterns.
Adapt and evolve solution designs as delivery progresses, addressing new constraints, scalability challenges, and deployment issues.
Participate in customer-facing engagements including design reviews, technical workshops, retrospectives, and escalation discussions, providing clear technical direction at key decision points.
Contribute to internal architecture governance through design reviews, documentation, and reusable solution assets, while staying current with Smile’s product roadmap and relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., CMS interoperability mandates).

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software engineering, technical consulting, or solution architecture, supporting complex healthcare implementations.
Proven ability to lead customer-facing architecture and design discussions with payer, provider, or government healthcare organizations.
Experience designing solutions involving real-time data ingestion technologies such as Kafka, Camel, or Pulsar, and implementing FHIR-based data workflows.
Strong understanding of clinical data models and healthcare terminology standards (e.g., SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC), including their use across ingestion, transformation, and API layers.
Working knowledge of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized deployments using technologies such as HELM, Docker and Kubernetes.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and adapt solution designs as new constraints, requirements, or implementation challenges emerge.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proficiency with solution diagramming tools such as Lucidchart (or equivalent) to clearly communicate architecture, system interactions, and data flows.

Benefits

Remote Work Environment
Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days
Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution
Life and Disability
Employee Assistance Program
FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
Super HAPI Fun Club

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architecturesoftware engineeringtechnical consultingreal-time data ingestionFHIR-based data workflowsclinical data modelshealthcare terminology standardscloud-native environmentscontainerized deploymentstechnical trade-offs

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptability