Senior Solution Architect

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Job Summary and Qualifications

What makes ITG unique as a technology company is that our solutions ultimately impact the care of patients. Although our skills are needed in a number of industries, we in ITG apply them specifically to the noble cause of healthcare. We are "Healthcare Inspired." It is this guiding vision that pervades and positively influences every level of our organization. It shapes our mission, defines our values, and brings our leaders and employees together in a shared enthusiasm for their work, setting ITG apart as a uniquely purpose-driven company in the IT industry. As a part of that, we exist to Raise the bar, Unlock possibilities, and Care like family. 

HCA ITG Senior Solution Architects are innovative individuals who drive changes for people, policies and processes. The Senior Solution Architect utilizes technical and business expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and resolve issues to ensure automation program requirements are met. Senior Solution Architects assume responsibility for driving HCA’s technical automation program through broad policy decision based on strategic business or IT objectives. Senior Automation Architects provide technical direction for automation development teams through consulting, solution design and review. Senior Solution Architects provide direction for HCA’s technical automation strategy by being able to connect use cases with the appropriate technology or tool. Individuals also serve as leaders in the development community, providing tools and best practices for automation developers to be successful. Senor Solution Architects work with business units to help them define and execute on automation strategies, and layout the architecture of how those programs should function. Senior Solution Architects have ownership of the technical automation program as assigned. As a recognized leader, Senior Solution Architects will be sought after to coach and mentor colleagues. 

CORE COMPETENCIES
 - Automation Strategy
 - Portfolio Management
 - Process Engineering
 - Compliance and Code Review
 - Repository Management
 - Organizational Knowledge
 - Automation Engineering
 - Automation Validation

VALUABLE SKILLS
 - Domain Knowledge
 - Communication, Diplomacy and Advocacy
 - Automation Landscape

SPECIALIST/EMERGING SKILLS
 - Service Management
 - Statistics and Data Science
 - Leadership

Major Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end solution architecture, technical design, and implementation strategy for enterprise healthcare payer integration and interoperability products. 
• Architect scalable solutions supporting FHIR, clinical data exchange, HL7, EDI/X12, REST APIs, and other healthcare interoperability standards. 
• Provide technical leadership throughout the complete product lifecycle, from architecture and product design through development, implementation, deployment, production readiness, and ongoing modernization. 
• Design reusable healthcare integration platforms and services that enable secure data exchange across payers, providers, EHRs, clinical systems, vendors, government entities, and other healthcare ecosystem partners. 
• Provide deep architectural expertise for HL7 FHIR-based solutions, including FHIR APIs, resources, profiles, implementation guides, terminology, validation, and interoperability patterns. 
• Architect solutions supporting healthcare clinical data exchange, including ingestion, transformation, normalization, validation, storage, routing, and distribution of clinical information. 
• Design and guide implementation of healthcare EDI/X12 integrations, including transactions such as 270/271, 276/277, 278, 834, 835, and 837, as applicable to payer business processes. 
• Architect solutions supporting HL7 v2 and other legacy healthcare integration standards, including strategies for interoperability between legacy platforms and modern FHIR/API-based ecosystems. 
• Design cloud-native and hybrid-cloud architectures using GCP and Azure, selecting appropriate cloud services based on scalability, availability, performance, security, operational supportability, and cost. 
• Provide expertise across cloud architecture capabilities including API management, containers/Kubernetes, serverless computing, messaging, event streaming, data platforms, storage, networking, identity and access management, monitoring, and observability. 
• Define and implement modern integration patterns using APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, streaming, batch processing, and enterprise integration patterns. 
• Establish architectural standards and reusable patterns for healthcare APIs, interoperability services, partner integrations, data transformation, error handling, auditing, monitoring, and resiliency. 
• Design solutions capable of supporting high-volume healthcare transactions and clinical data exchange, with appropriate considerations for performance, scalability, concurrency, latency, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. 
• Partner with Product Managers to translate product roadmaps, business requirements, regulatory requirements, and healthcare use cases into technical architecture and implementation plans. 
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams during implementation, providing technical direction, design guidance, troubleshooting support, and architecture oversight to ensure solutions align with approved designs. 
• Conduct architecture and detailed design reviews, identify technical risks and dependencies, and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies. 
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts including solution architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, integration flows, API designs, data-flow diagrams, deployment architectures, technical specifications, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). 
• Ensure architectures comply with applicable HIPAA, privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, and enterprise security requirements, including encryption, identity, authorization, auditability, and protection of PHI. 
• Incorporate security by design, privacy by design, zero-trust principles, least-privilege access, and secure API architecture into healthcare solutions. 
• Work with DevOps and engineering teams to establish appropriate CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness patterns. 
• Drive modernization of legacy healthcare integration solutions toward cloud-native, API-first, FHIR-based, event-driven, and reusable platform architectures. 
• Evaluate technology products, cloud services, healthcare interoperability platforms, and third-party solutions and provide recommendations based on technical capability, strategic fit, interoperability, security, scalability, and total cost of ownership. 
• Lead technical proofs of concept (POCs), prototypes, architecture evaluations, and technology assessments for new healthcare integration capabilities. 
• Serve as a technical design authority for major healthcare interoperability initiatives and ensure consistency with enterprise architecture principles and technology strategy. 
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, technical leads, developers, and other architects, helping establish architecture and engineering best practices across teams. 
• Communicate complex architecture decisions, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and recommendations effectively to engineering teams, Product Management, business stakeholders, and senior leadership. 
• Stay current with developments in FHIR, HL7, EDI/X12, CMS interoperability requirements, healthcare APIs, cloud technologies, security, and healthcare interoperability standards, and incorporate relevant advancements into the technology roadmap. 

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor's degree Information Systems Preferred 
• Master's degree Preferred 
• Seven or more years of experience in a Systems Engineering, Automation, or Development Required

Licenses, Certifications, & Training:

• Google Cloud Provider Preferred 
• Agile or Scrum Management Preferred 
• FHIR Required 

• Understanding of HCAs IT organization and its business functions Required 
• Ability to determine best practices and articulate authoritative direction Required 
• Ability to review automation code and ensure it conforms to standards Required 
• Knowledge of system architecture Required Knowledge of CI/CD principles and the design/development of Azure DevOps Pipelines Required 
• Knowledge of agile and lean development workflows and the ability to execute within them Required 
• Ability to evaluate automations utilizing Six-Sigma principles for improvement opportunities Required 
• Knowledge of automated testing practices and the ability to execute in their development and setting of frameworks and standards Required 
• Extensive depth of knowledge in one or more automation domains Required 
• Ability to build relationships, communicate effectively both formally and informally, and advocate for automation across the company Required 
• Ability to determine alignment of new technologies to HCA strategic roadmap Required Ability to teach other team members and other external individuals Required 
• Skill in Utilizing GitHub repositories as code repositories and version control Required 
• Knowledge of frameworks and software design patterns used for implementing software solutions Required Understanding of common healthcare EDI transactions such as 270/271, 276/277, 278, 834, 835, and 837 Required 
• Hands-on functional or technical understanding of FHIR, HL7, EDI/X12, REST APIs, and healthcare interoperability concepts. Required 
• Experience with enterprise cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Microsoft Azure is highly desirable Required 
• Skill in devising and implementing technical automation strategy Required 
• Knowledge of repository best practices and ability to execute advanced workflows Required 
• Understanding what is possible through automation engineering tools and be able to identify which is best suited for use cases Required 
• Knowledge of API usage and skill in executing actions utilizing them Required 
• Knowledge of general purpose, cloud provider, and device centric policy management techniques Required 
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence principles and capabilities and the ability to identify use cases for it Preferred 
• Knowledge of Machine Learning principles and capabilities, and the ability to identify use cases for it Preferred 
• Knowledge of automation landscape, current and future industry offerings, and internal HCA capabilities Required 
• Knowledge of Service Management and ITSM practices and the ability to set guidelines and standards for automation Preferred Ability to design, develop, and monitor KPI, operational metrics, and other relevant automation data Preferred 
• Ability to become a trusted advisor, lead projects and programs, be a catalyst for change, drive collaboration among the automation community, and be a thought leader at HCA Required 
• Knowledge of infrastructure capabilities, standards, and administration Preferred Skill in multiple programming languages Preferred 
• Ability to design/redesign workflows and processes suitable for automation Required 
• Understanding of how contracting is handled Preferred 
• Ability to perform interviews, evaluate candidates, assist with career path and performance evaluations of team members Preferred 
• Skill in using scripts to execute processes Required Skill in using object-oriented programming Required 
• Skill in utilizing data serialization languages such as YAML or JSON Required 

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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