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Summary:
In this role, you will lead the technical design and delivery of complex, client-facing data, analytics, application, and AI-enabled solutions that address real-world healthcare challenges. You will serve as a senior technical advisor and hands-on solution leader across large engagements, translating clinical, operational, and business needs into scalable solutions and data products. You will define solution architecture, establish reusable development practices, and guide teams from discovery and experimentation through production deployment while ensuring alignment with technology, data governance, security, and architecture standards.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-level data, analytics, application, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Own technical delivery across complex engagements from discovery and solution design through development, deployment, validation, and transition.
- Define reusable architecture patterns, development frameworks, code libraries, integration standards, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, observable, and aligned with established technology and governance standards.
- Facilitate technical design sessions, architecture reviews, solution reviews, and technical working sessions.
- Identify and address delivery risks involving infrastructure, data access, integration, security, architecture, and governance.
- Partner with client leaders, analysts, engineers, clinicians, and business teams to translate complex healthcare challenges into technical solutions.
- Advise senior client leaders on solution strategies aligned with clinical, operational, and business objectives.
- Communicate technical concepts, architectural decisions, and implementation considerations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Apply AI-assisted and agentic development approaches to accelerate delivery while maintaining appropriate controls and guardrails.
- Develop experimentation frameworks that enable rapid prototyping, evaluation, refinement, and production transition.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Application Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams to deliver cohesive, integrated solutions.
- Mentor engineers through technical coaching, knowledge sharing, and guidance on complex architecture and development decisions.
- Drive engineering excellence through reusable assets, documented practices, communities of practice, and consistent technical standards.
- Define and govern architecture patterns, integration standards, and agentic development frameworks that promote scalability and consistency.
- Develop reusable frameworks, code libraries, reference architectures, and best practices that accelerate solution delivery.
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree preferred.
- 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
- Experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex, multi-component technical solutions required.
- Experience with healthcare data, healthcare analytics, or healthcare technology required.
- Advanced expertise in SQL and modern cloud-based data and application development platforms, including Databricks required.
- Experience designing solutions that integrate data platforms, APIs, application layers, visualization tools, and cloud services required.
- Experience with AI-assisted development, large language models, agentic workflows, or related AI technologies strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture, application integration, security-by-design principles, source control, and CI/CD practices preferred.
- Experience rapidly prototyping solutions and transitioning successful concepts into scalable, maintainable implementations preferred.
- Strong consultative skills with the ability to translate healthcare and business challenges into actionable technical strategies preferred.
- Experience facilitating technical discussions and presenting recommendations to senior technical, business, clinical, and operational leaders preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical standards across teams without direct reporting authority preferred.
- Knowledge of Vizient data, analytics products, or the Clinical Data Base preferred.
- Willingness to travel.
Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.
Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.
Skills Required
- Relevant degree
- Seven or more years of relevant experience
- Experience leading architecture and delivery of complex, multi-component technical solutions
- Experience with healthcare data, healthcare analytics, or healthcare technology
- Advanced expertise in SQL and modern cloud-based data and application development platforms, including Databricks
- Experience designing solutions integrating data platforms, APIs, application layers, visualization tools, and cloud services
- Experience with AI-assisted development, large language models, agentic workflows, or related AI technologies
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture, application integration, security-by-design principles, source control, and CI/CD practices
- Experience rapidly prototyping solutions and transitioning successful concepts into scalable, maintainable implementations
- Strong consultative skills translating healthcare and business challenges into technical strategies
- Experience facilitating technical discussions and presenting recommendations to senior technical, business, clinical, and operational leaders
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical standards across teams without direct reporting authority
- Knowledge of Vizient data, analytics products, or the Clinical Data Base
- Willingness to travel
Vizient Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vizient and has not been reviewed or approved by Vizient.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off allowances are generous, with ample PTO and holidays available from day one. Separate paid volunteer days add additional protected time away.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexibility to work from anywhere for part of the year and hybrid options support work-life balance. Policies enabling remote periods complement the broader PTO structure.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a competitive 401(k) company match alongside HSA contributions on eligible plans. These elements strengthen long-term financial security within the total rewards package.
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What We Do
Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest health care performance improvement company, serves more than 50% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory care providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $130 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient is based in Dallas and has offices in 20 metropolitan areas across the United States. We have 4,000 employees with a breadth of expertise, experience and compassion, who are eager to develop and implement solutions that advance health care for the greater good.
