Lead Application Architect

Join our Digital Technology organization as a Lead Application Architect and play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare technology. This role provides strategic architectural leadership across complex enterprise initiatives, driving the design and implementation of scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions that improve member, provider, and associate experiences.

As a Lead Application Architect, you will define architecture strategies, establish engineering standards, and guide cross-functional teams in building API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based platforms leveraging Azure cloud technologies. You will partner with business and technology leaders to deliver resilient, high-performing digital solutions while mentoring engineering teams and fostering architectural excellence across the organization.

• Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Lead architecture and design of enterprise-scale applications using microservices, domain-driven design, and cloud-native principles.

• Define target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps for strategic business capabilities.

• Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.

• Drive API-first architecture and enterprise integration strategies.

• Lead architecture reviews, design governance, and technology evaluations.

• Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure solutions on Microsoft Azure.

• Guide adoption of Azure-native services including AKS, App Services, API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure Functions, and Azure Storage.

• Define cloud migration and modernization strategies for legacy applications.

• Event-Driven & Integration Architecture

• Design and govern event-driven architectures leveraging Apache Kafka and related streaming technologies.

• Establish messaging patterns, event contracts, topic governance, and real-time integration strategies.

• Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.

• Drive asynchronous communication patterns across enterprise platforms.

• Dev Sec Ops  & CI/CD Enablement

• Champion Dev Sec Ops  practices and automation across engineering teams.

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing, security scanning, deployment, and monitoring.

• Collaborate with platform engineering teams to standardize deployment patterns.

• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git Ops methodologies.

• Provide architectural guidance on Argo CD, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, and related automation platforms.

• Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with product, engineering, security, data, and business teams to align technical solutions with business goals.

• Influence technology strategy and architecture decisions across multiple initiatives.

• Present architecture recommendations and trade-off analyses to senior leadership.

• Mentorship & Governance

• Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads on architecture principles and emerging technologies.

• Lead architecture review boards and technical design sessions.

• Ensure solutions adhere to security, compliance, performance, and scalability standards.

• Foster a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.

• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale distributed systems.

• Strong expertise in microservices architecture and API design.

• Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and cloud-native development.

• Experience designing event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms.

• Strong understanding of application integration patterns and distributed systems.

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Dev Sec Ops  practices.

• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resiliency, and observability best practices.

• Proven ability to lead technical teams and influence architecture decisions across multiple programs.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Location/Work Style: Remote US

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