Solutions Architect - Hybrid

Role Overview

At Mission Pet Health, we are building the world's greatest veterinary organization. We are hiring a Solutions Architect to own and design the end‑to‑end data platform that ties together our clinical, financial, HR, and marketing systems.

• Own the target‑state architecture for the data platform end-to-end – ingestion, storage, modeling, serving, and governance.
• Set the direction for our analytical layer on SQL Server, SSAS, and Click House, and for our integration fabric across Azure Data Factory, REST APIs, NATS, and CDC.
• Design and operate event‑driven, service‑oriented workloads on Kubernetes in Go and Python.
• Make AI‑driven development a core focus of the team: build and adopt agentic tooling (code‑aware agents, retrieval over our own schemas and lineage) so engineers ship faster, with better tests and documentation, and so routine work gets automated rather than repeated.
• Define the data contracts, schema standards, and quality SLAs that engineering and analytics teams build against.
• Embed PII/PHI handling, access control, and auditability into the platform.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and translate executive intent into delivery roadmaps.

• 8+ years across data engineering, software engineering, or platform architecture.
• Deep hands‑on experience with T‑SQL, SQL Server at scale, SSAS, and Azure Data Factory.
• Production experience with Click House (or a comparable columnar engine such as Snowflake, Big Query, or Databricks).
• Strong production‑grade skills in Python, Go, or a comparable backend language – discipline to write code, not just diagrams.
• Comfort designing event‑driven systems (REST, NATS or Kafka, CDC) and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Genuine fluency with AI‑assisted engineering – coding agents, LLM tooling, retrieval, evals – and a point of view on how to do it responsibly inside a regulated, multi‑site business.
• A track record of partnering with executives and turning ambiguous business problems into durable technical designs.
• Reside in or be willing to relocate to Birmingham, Alabama, and work onsite.

• Veterinary, healthcare, or multi‑site retail/services experience, particularly with Practice Information Management Systems (PIMS).