Solution Architect

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Ascend Learning, a leading healthcare and learning technology company,is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data-driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.

From testing to certification, Ascend Learning products are used by physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers.

Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America’s 2025 Greatest Workplaces as well as America’s Best Places to work for Mental Well-Being for 2025.

We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.

The Solution Architect role is a critical member of the Enterprise Applications team, creating the overall technical vision for an integrated solution with an emphasis on AI-enablement to support and enhance business processes. This includes aligning business processes, implementing, and architecting enterprise platforms in an integrated environment, with an emphasis on AI-enablement across the technology stack This role interacts with business stakeholders and leaders, software engineers, development leads/architects, business/platform analysts, and quality engineering resources.

The ideal candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams and collaborate with engineers to develop standard platforms across multiple business units and develop standard integration patterns. This person will also possess the ability to lead key initiatives, build consensus, and produce conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives through prototyping concepts, documentation of systems, architectures, and business process flows.

This position is expected to work closely with the teams within the Enterprise Applications team, designing and overseeing the implementation of architectures, as well as a key collaborator with our Enterprise Architecture team for model architecture guidance. In addition to the leadership and architecture responsibilities, a firm understanding of the underlying technologies is required.

This position will work a hybrid schedule from our Leawood, KS preferred. Candidates working from our Burlington, MA office location may be considered.

• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, documentation, technical design, performing code reviews, providing guidance on building reusable components, and designing integrations
• Understand the business process; facilitate the discovery of entities, attributes, relationships, and business rules from functional experts and the user community
• Evaluate current environments, conduct research, recommend, and implement innovative designs that can enhance the reliability, security, productivity, and efficiency of systems
• Ability to visualize with the ability to explain a solution to the business through a POC or diagram that is clear and related to the business goals.
• Design and evolve the architectural patterns, platforms, and guardrails that enable engineering teams to responsibly integrate AI capabilities, including LLMs, agents, and ML pipelines, into platforms at scale.
• Advocate for and embrace Dev Ops and CI/CD across the teams with a focus on scaling components and APIs horizontally, automated continuous deployment, version control, and monitoring
• Be responsible for all design and governance decisions across enterprise platforms;
  Perform design reviews and manage the software development lifecycle;
  Act as the ultimate technical owner for any automation;
  Validate software design and implementation, enforce robust tests, help formulate deployment strategies and ensure software is…