Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
We are seeking an Architect for our Internal Developer Platform team. In this role you will lead the technical architecture related efforts to drive our effort toward building and maintaining tools and services required to improve developer experience and productivity across the company. The leader will be responsible for interacting with multiple stakeholders including infrastructure, security and application product teams to align and evangelize the technical adoption. This role requires a leader who can drive the vision of how to improve developer productivity across Athena SDLC using AI tools.
In this role, your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Technical Execution
- Produce technical design specifications and guidance to the appropriate detail, acting as an advisor/leader for multiple zones and/or multiple charters
- Establish and promote best practices for software development, deployment, and operations within the platform.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and identify opportunities to turn them into teaching and learning moments
- Monitor and optimize the performance of the internal developer platform, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Produce documentation proving the value of proposed solutions and providing paths to implementation. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for the platform architecture, processes, and guidelines.
- Define reference Cloud architecture for the platform build and update the roadmap to achieve this architecture; socialize and evangelize the vision for the reference Cloud architecture across the organization.
- identify opportunities to use GenAI tools across the organization and promote that withing the org.
Architectural Leadership
- Lead the design and architecture of the internal developer platform, ensuring it meets the needs of developers and aligns with organizational goals.
- Exhibits mastery of multiple functional zones and multiple pieces of the application
- Assess, advocate and approve external technologies and technology partners for their suitability
- Educate broader company on technology architecture related to the foundational platform services and tools that are managed by platform,
- Identify creative and innovative solutions that could be patented and adopted by the broader market
- Participate in Architect and other developer interview process as needed; influences final hiring decisions
- Determine the right robust, scalable, and secure technical solutions to meet the business needs
- Be specific and mindful of dependencies to eliminate redundancies and avoid silos. Be the glue that helps navigate dependencies
- Provide a vision of the core framework of technology services with customer focused mindset. Be able to be in developers shoes while building services, tools and identifying communication patterns.
- Build vs. Buy vs. Adopt: Cultivate awareness and opportunities for new & existing open-source technologies; understand where & how to leverage them, or when it’s more appropriate to build from scratch
- Understands scalability and performance in terms of systems and infrastructure architecture
- Lead by example, delivering high-quality code that powers critical pieces of the platform, champions quality standards, transactional performance and scalability
Cross functional Coordination and Communication
- Use techniques such as prototype (e.g. 4+1 architecture) and analytics to demonstrate value of solutions
- Provide appropriate governance for tri-annual release planning
- Participate collaboratively with scrum team members and product owners to groom initiatives, epics and stories
- Work with developers and architects to develop technical approach to phase out old tools/technologies and phase in new ones
- Liaison with the senior business leaders and technology leadership to ensure alignment of R&D goals and technical capabilities
Mentorship of Others
- Provide design and architectural guidance and governance in delivering software components and services
- Review performance and provide feedback on talent including endorsements and/or concerns for promotions
- Coach, mentor and inspire more junior team members to maximize overall
productivity and effectiveness of the team
- Be an evangelist for modernization, automation and the use of AI
Education, Experience, & Skills Required:
- A minimum of 12 years of experience in a technical architect/leadership position
- Extensive experience working in an Agile environment preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Expert software engineering skills and computer science experience
- Substantial expertise in modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and JavaScript – Java preferred
- Excellent understanding of scalable, cloud architectures and experience in applying them to real world problems – AWS strongly preferred
- Experience in applying AI/ML technologies as tool to improve developer productivity
- Experience in large-scale HADR Cloud-based systems
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux, QL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
- Expert in object-oriented programing, relational database technologies, distributed computing technologies, RESTful API, Kubernetes and other open-source technologies.
Behaviors & Abilities Required:
- Ability to consistently achieve successful results, even under tough circumstances
- Ability to create new and better ways for the organization to be successful
- Demonstrates future thinking, building solutions that will meet not only current needs
- Ability to design and develop system architectures with specific business models in mind
- Drives vision and purpose by painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills that encourage growth for more junior members
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity—that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
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What We Do
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
We are here to make an impact on the healthcare industry at scale. We enable our diverse teams to move fast, grapple with interesting technical challenges, and innovate at every level. We are on a modernization journey and build on the hybrid cloud. We deliver best-in-class solutions to help every patient receive the best possible care.
