Solutions Architect (Healthcare​/Clinical Platforms

We are X, bigly labs, Dis-Chem’s high-performance innovation hub; a place where bold ideas meet data, design, and radical customer focus to reimagine what healthcare can be.

Our mission is to power the future of healthcare by lowering costs, unlocking new possibilities, and improving access to healthcare for all South Africans. We do this through cutting-edge digital solutions that deliver smarter, more human, and truly patient-focused experiences. Here, your work is not limited to a whiteboard; it becomes real. It drives decisions, shapes experiences, and moves healthcare forward.

We are driven by one big question:
How do we use data and today’s technology to build breakthroughs to better health?

There’s only one question left: are you ready to make healthcare smarter, and actually mean it?

• Proven experience designing and implementing healthcare / clinical systems (end-to-end)
• Strong understanding of healthcare domain workflows, systems, and integrations
• Experience working on clinical platforms (not just general enterprise systems)
• Ability to design end-to-end solution architectures, including integrations across multiple systems

• Own solution design for initiatives spanning multiple squads, systems, and vendors
• Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and secure architectures
• Define and govern API contracts and integration patterns, including with enterprise platforms (e.g. SAP Commerce Cloud)
• Produce and maintain clear architecture artefacts, including
• Provide technical assurance through design reviews, delivery checkpoints, and go-live readiness
• Identify and actively manage technical risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
• Ensure architectural decisions consider security, reliability, scalability, observability, and long-term maintainability
• Work closely with Product and Business stakeholders to balance customer outcomes, timelines, and technical trade-offs
• Contribute to production code when needed to unblock teams or de-risk delivery
• Provide reference implementations, templates, and reusable patterns
• Participate in architecture-level code reviews
• Support production readiness through strong practices in

We’re looking for a T-shaped engineer: someone with broad architectural capability and deep expertise in one or more technical areas. You are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, guiding teams through complexity, and rolling up your sleeves when delivery is  bring experience working within healthcare or clinical environments, and understand how to translate domain-specific requirements into scalable, practical solutions. You enjoy collaborating with product, business, and engineering stakeholders and can translate business intent into solid technical solutions.

Our values show up in how we think, build, and make choices that make an impact. We are building a culture that drives progress; one that fixes friction, chases what changes, and owns the outcome. We design with tomorrow in mind, ask sharper questions, and answer them with care, urgency, and systems that scale.

Think you’ve got energy, curiosity, and guts? Come hold the space, make it matter, and own a breakthrough.