Principal Chief Architect

The Principal Chief Architect is a dual-mandate leadership role that unifies product strategy and solution architecture across Center Well's four core business segments:
Pharmacy, Primary Care Organization (PCO), Home Solutions, and Humana Military. This senior individual contributor serves as the connective tissue between business vision and technical execution—owning cross-segment product roadmaps while simultaneously authoring and governing the architectural blueprints that underpin them.

You will operate within Center Well IT – Cross-Center Well Architecture, partnering with segment product leaders, engineering teams, EA Activation, security, data, and compliance to deliver integrated, interoperable health solutions that serve members, providers, and partners across the full care continuum. Your decisions shape what gets built, how it gets built, and the standard by which all four segments measure delivery readiness.

• Define and own a unified cross-segment product roadmap that balances segment-specific priorities against shared platform investments, and communicates trade-offs clearly to leadership.

• Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and integration standards applicable across all four Center Well segments.

• Conduct cross-segment discovery sessions, design workshops, and architecture reviews to surface shared needs, resolve competing priorities, and prevent duplicative build.

• Own and prioritize top-level product backlogs for shared platforms, partnering with segment product owners to decompose initiatives into delivery-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (NFRs).

• Define integration contracts, API standards, and domain boundaries for cross-segment data flows spanning pharmacy, clinical, home health, and military health domains.

• Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews for cross-segment initiatives; represent the combined product and architecture perspective in governance forums (ARB, TRB, MOR).

• Translate product vision into architectural runways and delivery-ready specifications that engineering teams across segments can act on immediately.

• Identify and steward opportunities for component and pattern reuse across segments; build the case for platform consolidation where segment convergence creates lasting efficiency.

• Serve as the primary liaison between segment business leaders, engineering leads, EA Activation, security, and the enterprise CIO organization.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience spanning product management, solution architecture, or a meaningful combination of both disciplines.

• 5+ years of solution architecture or senior product ownership experience within healthcare IT; demonstrated delivery in regulated environments (HIPAA/PHI, HITECH); experience across payer, provider, pharmacy, or government health domains preferred.

• Proven track record owning and prioritizing cross-functional product backlogs and roadmaps across multiple business lines or segments simultaneously, including managing competing stakeholder demands at the executive level.

• Hands‑on architecture experience with Azure services (Azure API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure Data Factory, AKS, Azure AD/Entra ); working knowledge of Snowflake or Databricks data platform patterns.

• Deep competency in API design and governance, event‑driven architecture, and microservices patterns; experience with FHIR R4 and HL7 interoperability standards in healthcare contexts.

• Demonstrated ability to produce reference architectures, architectural…