Principal Software Architect- Data Platform, Data

Thank you for considering a career at Ensemble!

Ensemble is a leading provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for health systems, including hospitals and affiliated physician groups. They offer end-to-end revenue cycle solutions as well as a comprehensive suite of point solutions to clients across the country.

Ensemble keeps communities healthy by keeping hospitals healthy. We recognize that healthcare requires a human touch, and we believe that every touch should be meaningful. This is why our people are the most important part of who we are. By empowering them to challenge the status quo, we know they will be the difference!

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Purpose:

Customer Obsession:
Consistently provide exceptional experiences for our clients, patients, and colleagues by understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations.

Embracing New Ideas:
Continuously innovate by embracing emerging technology and fostering a culture of creativity and experimentation.

Striving for Excellence:
Execute at a high level by demonstrating our “Best in KLAS” Ensemble Difference Principles and consistently delivering outstanding results.

The Opportunity:

As Principal Software Architect, you will serve as Ensemble’s senior technical authority on data platform engineering — a high‑level individual contributor, not a people manager. This is a software engineering role first: you will bring professional software architecture discipline — design patterns, modularity, repo structure, and system design — to a platform built on Databricks and Azure. You will re‑envision our architectural patterns, assess engineering practices across the organization, and establish a strong foundation for AI‑driven capabilities across the organization.

Much of our data platform work is heavy software engineering: services and pipelines that live in Git repositories, move through code review, and are built, tested, and deployed like any other software system. You will architect and design a cloud‑native data platform built on Azure and Databricks, enabling trusted, governed, and reusable data products that accelerate insight generation, operational automation, and emerging AI use cases.

You will also own the organization’s technology roadmap, staying ahead of emerging tools and techniques and recommending what we should evaluate or adopt next.

This role serves as a technical escalation point and architectural authority for the Data Platform, influencing software design, repository and branching strategy, CI/CD practices, performance, scalability, cost optimization, developer experience, and long‑term sustainability of Ensemble’s data ecosystem through credibility and technical judgment rather than formal authority.

Job Competencies Software Architecture & Technical Decision Making
- Makes sound software architecture and design decisions, including system structure, design patterns, repository and service boundaries, and build-vs-buy trade-offs; gathers and weighs information from multiple sources, evaluating trade-offs against reliability, cost, and scalability; clearly communicates decisions and rationale to technical and non-technical stakeholders; drives results through the strength of the recommendation, not positional authority.

Technical Mentorship
- Elevates the capability of senior and staff engineers by sharing architectural thinking, participating in code and design reviews, and modeling sound engineering judgment and software craftsmanship; develops others through example and coaching rather than formal supervision, without holding management responsibility for their performance or career progression.

Influencing Without Authority
- Drives adoption of architectural standards and technical direction across teams through…