Principal Application Architect

Summary

As a Principal Application Architect at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve – a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

At Gainwell, it’s easy to see the positive impact of what we do. The passion you bring to your career ultimately benefits the lives improved by services we provide to our clients. We encourage you to challenge yourself, learn and grow in a company that thrives on innovation. We go beyond entering new arenas to shaping markets with transformational experiences that redefine our business.

The difference is clear.

• Provides architectural oversight for the development of highly complex new and/or enhanced applications or products. Integrates components built by application developers and/or programmers as needed. Provides technical advice to other departments within the company.
• Reviews and conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies
• Evaluates new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into company products.
• Acts as liaison between third party vendors and company to procure, develop and/or integrate their applications into company products and to ensure that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
• Works with product development teams and senior designers on complex projects to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product.
• Owns Solutions / Post Sale / Integration of components
• Typically works on large projects
• Own Enterprise Architecture Framework and Architecture artifacts for accounts
• Own technical governance and compliance
• Own and lead Architecture Review Board for account
• Own the technical roadmap for account
• Analyzes data and drives operational improvements
• Focused on root cause analysis and driving permanent correction
• Client facing
• Proactively shares solutions across accounts
• Upskills the team

• Ten or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
• Experience working with:
• architecture framework methodologies such as TOGAF
• software systems, applications and network markets
• technical products, vendors, and families of technologies and company hardware and software products
• broad business area and knowledge of competitor products and services
• application design principles and product configurations
• appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software to understand product line software and hardware
• mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
• software development life cycle and client requirements
• Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced personnel
• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, application development personnel and management
• Background working in Health Care Industry, preferably Medicaid

• United States remote opportunity
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
• The Deadline to submit applications for this posting is Febraury 2, 2026

The pay range for this position is $ – $ per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work ’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance.

We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

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