Principal Solutions Architect

A Little About Us

At Zelis, we Get Stuff Done. So, let’s get to it! A Little About Us Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

This role sets the technical direction for the Price Optimization business unit's unified platform strategy as we evolve from siloed products and services into integrated customer solutions. You will lead solution and platform architecture across the business unit, defining scalable, reusable patterns that unify experiences, capabilities, and data across offerings. As a senior technical leader, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, and Enterprise Architecture to shape end-to-end solutions that improve customer outcomes, accelerate delivery, and strengthen platform consistency.

This role requires deep Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management expertise, strong AWS architecture experience, strong UI architecture experience, and hands-on leadership in applying AI and AI-native software delivery practices.

• Lead architecture for the Price Optimization business unit's unified platform, aligning business capabilities, shared services, and customer-facing solutions into a cohesive technology strategy.
• Define end-to-end solution architectures that break down product silos and enable the business unit to deliver integrated solutions instead of disconnected products or services.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, reference designs, and golden paths spanning UI, application, integration, data, AI, and cloud infrastructure layers.
• Partner with Product and business leaders to translate customer and market needs into scalable platform capabilities and solution roadmaps.
• Drive architecture for modern AWS-based solutions, including microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, serverless components, and resilient distributed application patterns.
• Lead UI architecture and front-end strategy for unified customer and internal user experiences, including shared design patterns, component reuse, accessibility, responsiveness, performance, and experience consistency across solutions.
• Architect integrations across internal platforms, partner ecosystems, workflow tools, data services, and external client environments to support seamless solution delivery.
• Apply deep Healthcare RCM expertise to solution design across pricing, payments, claims, reimbursement, provider-payer workflows, analytics, and operational processes.
• Drive AI adoption within products, platforms, and engineering workflows, identifying where AI can improve customer outcomes, internal efficiency, decision support, automation, and user experience.
• Champion AI-native SDLC practices, including AI-assisted design, code generation, testing, documentation, quality engineering, delivery automation, and developer productivity improvements with strong governance.
• Define standards for observability, resilience, security, compliance, and operational readiness across solution and platform implementations.
• Mentor engineering and architecture teams, raising the bar on solution thinking, technical design quality, and cross-team collaboration.
• Partner cross-functionally with Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, UX, Data, and Operations to ensure cohesive execution and long‑term platform integrity.

• Experience and leadership:
  Typically BS plus 15 years or MS plus 12 years (or equivalent), with a strong track record leading complex enterprise architecture and solution design initiatives across multiple teams and domains.
• Healthcare RCM expertise:
  Deep experience in healthcare revenue cycle management, including strong understanding of payer-provider…