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The Senior Solutions Architect provides technical and thought leadership that aligns business goals with modern cloud data lakehouse architectures, advanced healthcare data exchange standards, and robust integration frameworks. This role defines the technical roadmap, reference architectures, and governance for complex, enterprise-scale data and interoperability solutions.\nESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES\nInteroperability & Architectural Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor and technical authority advising on both provider and payer/provider interoperability initiatives. Design and govern enterprise-scale solutions utilizing modern Data Lakehouse architectures, cloud-native services, and complex data exchange standards.\nDomain & Standards Expertise: Drive architectural patterns leveraging healthcare data exchange standards-including HL7 v2 (ADT, SIU, ORU), HL7 v3 (CDA, CCD), and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).\n Data Lakehouse & Cloud Ecosystems: Architect solutions using GCP Dataproc, Confluent Kafka, Apache Airflow/Composer, Open Database Format/Apache Iceberg, Google Metastore Metadata layers, Google BigQuery (via dbt), Starburst federation, Monte Carlo data quality, and Atlan data catalogs. (Note: Familiarity with legacy/transitionary technologies such as Databricks Medallion architecture, SAS, and Teradata is a plus).\nApplication Integration & Development Standards: Guide development teams on REST API frameworks, Java development standards and classes for interface programming, Python, Spark development, and Advanced SQL.\nDevOps & Infrastructure Governance: Establish and enforce DevOps principles, GitHub code repositories, YAML cloud configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.\nStakeholder Engagement & Roadmap Planning: Collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and senior business/IT leaders to translate complex requirements into a robust architectural runway and roadmap. Present and justify solution designs to executive stakeholders.\nOther duties as assigned or requested.\nEXPERIENCE\nRequired\n5 years of experience in technical expertise in both mainframe and/or open systems environments (system software, application software, databases, etc.)\n5 years of experience in enterprise environment including experience as a technology lead with technical decision making responsibilities and application development or infrastructure services experience\n5 years of experience in IT solutions delivery\n5 years of experience in providing consultative solutions architecture and support services of enterprise scope and depth\n1 year of experience in using modeling languages\n1 year as a Solutions Architect\nPreferred\n5+ years of experience in the healthcare industry, specifically focusing on healthcare data exchange, interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7), and clinical/payer data flows.\nDemonstrated experience architecting and implementing modern cloud Data Lakehouse solutions (GCP, BigQuery, Iceberg, Kafka).\nStrong background in API development frameworks, Java/Python integration, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitHub CI/CD).\nSKILLS\nHealthcare Interoperability Standards (FHIR, HL7 v2/v3, CDA, CCD)\nModern Data Lakehouse Architectures & Tooling (GCP, Kafka, Airflow, Iceberg, Starburst, dbt)\nIntegration & Application Development (Java, Python, REST APIs, Advanced SQL)\nDevOps & Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitHub, YAML)\nData Governance & Quality (Atlan, Monte Carlo)\nTOGAF / Enterprise Architecture Frameworks\nExecutive Communication & Strategic Advisory Skills\nEDUCATION\nRequired\nBachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field\nPreferred\nNone\nSubstitution\n6 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a Bachelor's Degree\nLICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS\nRequired\nNone\nPreferred\nSAFe Architect\nArchiMate\nLanguage (Other than English):\nNone\nTravel Requirement:\n0% - 25%\nPHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS\nPosition Type\nOffice- Hybrid\nTeaches / trains others\nOccasionally\nTravel from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site\nRarely\nPhysical work site required\nNo\nLifting: up to 10 pounds\nConstantly\nLifting: 10 to 25 pounds\nOccasionally\nLifting: 25 to 50 pounds\nRarely\nDisclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.\nCompliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.\nAs a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy. \nFurthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.\nHighmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.\nCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act Employees, Contractors, and Applicants Notice","description_format":"text","description_chars":6185,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":true}]},"benefits":["Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hospitals & Health Systems","Health Insurance & Benefits"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T08:04:38Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":31,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.695,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":21,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:26","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/highmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/highmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T17:10:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":26064,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":20346},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=20346"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhighmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhighmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhighmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/highmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhighmark-health-senior-solutions-architect-interoperability-data"}]}