Sr Clinical Solutions Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Clinical Solutions Architect

Location: Hybrid - Remote mostly but must travel to site for preplanned meetings so semi local ok, expenses not covered.

Department: IT / Architecture & Clinical Solutions

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Solutions Architect to design, guide, and govern technology solutions that support clinical workflows, patient care delivery, and healthcare interoperability. This role bridges clinical operations and IT architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, and aligned with regulatory and patient safety requirements. The Clinical Solutions Architect partners closely with clinicians, enterprise architects, and solution delivery teams to translate clinical needs into practical, standards?based technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Solution Architecture & Design

• Design end-to-end clinical technology solutions across EHRs, clinical applications, data platforms, and integration layers.
• Translate clinical workflows and care delivery requirements into scalable solution architectures.
• Develop solution architecture artifacts, including diagrams, integration patterns, and reference designs.

Standards, Interoperability & Best Practices

• Apply and promote healthcare interoperability standards (HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR, CDA, DICOM).
• Ensure solution designs align with enterprise architecture standards, data governance, and security policies.
• Contribute to reusable clinical solution patterns and reference architectures.

Governance & Compliance

• Participate in architecture review boards to validate solution alignment with clinical, regulatory, and security requirements.
• Ensure solutions comply with HIPAA, HITECH, and healthcare data privacy regulations.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to embed security and privacy by design.

Clinical & Technical Collaboration

• Collaborate with clinicians, clinical informaticists, product owners, and IT delivery teams to ensure solutions meet care delivery needs.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by explaining technical options in clear, clinically relevant terms.
• Support solution delivery teams during implementation, testing, and go?live phases.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Monitor emerging healthcare technologies such as AI?enabled clinical decision support, telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and digital front door solutions.
• Recommend architectural improvements to enhance clinician experience, patient outcomes, and system performance.
• Support modernization initiatives including cloud adoption and legacy clinical system optimization.

Tooling & Documentation

• Leverage enterprise architecture and solution documentation tools (e.g., ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture Module, modeling tools, SharePoint).
• Maintain accurate, version?controlled clinical solution documentation and architecture repositories.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, Nursing Informatics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, clinical systems architecture, or healthcare IT.
• Hands?on experience designing and integrating clinical systems within complex healthcare environments.
• Strong understanding of healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM).
• Experience working with EHR platforms (e.g., Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with clinical and technical stakeholders.

Required Skills

Clinical & Healthcare Domain Skills

• Clinical workflow analysis and optimization
• Understanding of care delivery models and clinical operations
• Healthcare data standards and interoperability
• Regulatory compliance (HIPAA, HITECH)

Technical & Architecture Skills

• Solution architecture and system integration design
• API?based integration and messaging architectures
• Cloud architecture fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Healthcare data platforms and analytics solutions
• Security and privacy-by-design principles

Professional Skills

• Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
• Ability to translate clinical needs into technical solutions
• Documentation and architectural modeling
• Problem?solving in complex, regulated environments

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate).
• Familiarity with ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture Module.
• Knowledge of healthcare cybersecurity and data governance practices.
• Experience supporting telehealth, digital health, or AI?driven clinical solutions.
• Certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, CPHIMS, or Epic/Cerner certifications.