Systems Engineer III - Integration Architect; REMOTE

Systems Engineer III
- Integration Architect

Kadiak, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Systems Engineer III
- Integration Architect to support Kadiak and our government customer. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust. This is a remote position.

We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.

Kadiak LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking an experienced, motivated Integration Architect to support the Indian Health Service (IHS) Health Information Technology Modernization Program. The Integration Architect is a senior engineering position that provides enterprise systems integration, interoperability architecture, and systems engineering expertise to support the modernization, implementation, deployment, and sustainment of enterprise healthcare information systems.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team, the Integration Architect develops technical solutions and recommendations, evaluates engineering artifacts, supports architecture and integration planning, identifies technical dependencies and risks, and assists IHS in evaluating technical approaches throughout the system lifecycle. The position collaborates closely with infrastructure, cybersecurity, product management, deployment, testing, engineering process, and implementation teams to help ensure enterprise solutions are scalable, interoperable, secure, maintainable, and operationally ready.

The Integration Architect serves as a senior technical advisor supporting enterprise integration initiatives, engineering governance, and technical decision-making while working collaboratively across Government, contractor, vendor, and implementation partner organizations.

Principal responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Develop enterprise integration strategies, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps supporting Health IT modernization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including logical architectures, interface inventories, system dependency models, and integration documentation.
• Define enterprise integration patterns, architectural standards, and engineering approaches that promote consistency across modernization efforts.
• Evaluate current-state and future-state architectures supporting enterprise transformation.
• Assess proposed technical solutions for interoperability, scalability, maintainability, operational readiness, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend architectural approaches that improve enterprise healthcare operations.

• Plan and coordinate enterprise systems integration activities across multiple modernization initiatives.
• Analyze technical dependencies among applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity services, identity management, interfaces, cloud services, and external systems.
• Review engineering artifacts, technical requirements, solution designs, interface specifications, and vendor documentation to assess technical adequacy, interoperability, implementation readiness, and technical risk.
• Identify integration risks, architectural constraints, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support resolution of complex cross-system integration challenges.
• Develop and maintain enterprise interface standards, integration guidance, and technical documentation supporting standards-based interoperability.
• Support healthcare interoperability initiatives utilizing technologies such as HL7, FHIR, REST APIs, Direct Secure Messaging, Health Information Exchange (HIE), and Identity and Access Management services.
• Participate in engineering lifecycle reviews including Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Operational Readiness Reviews (ORR), Configuration Reviews, and Release Readiness Reviews.
• Support engineering verification, validation, deployment readiness, operational assessments, and continuous engineering improvement activities.

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