As a Lead Healthcare Solutions Architect at RapidScale, you will serve as a trusted advisor to some of our most important clients in the healthcare industry. Your mission: shape and deliver innovative cloud, infrastructure, and security solutions that address the unique regulatory, operational, and technological challenges faced by large healthcare organizations.
This role overlays the broader solutions engineering team, focusing primarily on strategic opportunities in the healthcare space. You'll bring deep industry insight, familiarity with healthcare IT systems (applications including EHR, HIE, Telehealth, Imaging, LIS, practice management, etc.), and an understanding of healthcare-specific compliance and interoperability challenges. You will act as a bridge between business, clinical, and IT priorities, aligning RapidScale's capabilities to our healthcare customers' business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Client Discovery & Strategic Alignment
- Lead tailored discovery engagements with healthcare organizations, focusing on mission critical applications, business and clinical workflows, IT infrastructure, cloud, regulatory pressures (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH), data governance, and interoperability needs.
- Translate healthcare-specific challenges into actionable, outcome-based technical strategies.
- Conduct interviews and workshops across both business and IT leadership to surface high-impact initiatives.
- Influence C-level stakeholders by linking IT transformation to patient care outcomes and financial imperatives.
- Architect secure, scalable hybrid and hybrid cloud environments aligned with application availability, performance requirements and regulatory standards in mind.
Collaboration & Influence
- Operate as an overlay specialist across regional teams, supporting large strategic healthcare pursuits in a technical leadership role.
- Partner with RapidScale's sales team, cloud solution architects, AI/ML specialists, and Security and Compliance experts to co-develop pursuit strategies and solution roadmaps.
- Contribute to RFP responses, executive briefings, and solution validations specific to healthcare use cases.
- Serve as a subject matter expert internally helping evolve our constantly growing healthcare IT practice.
Security & Compliance
- Design secure environments aligned with HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST, and evolving CMS cybersecurity expectations.
- Guide customers through risk assessments, BAA considerations, and audit readiness.
Thought Leadership & Education
- Stay current on trends in healthcare IT (e.g., cloud in clinical systems, AI/ML in diagnostics, telehealth infrastructure).
- Educate clients on how RapidScale's solutions directly support healthcare-specific goals, including patient experience, clinician productivity, and cost containment.
- Represent RapidScale at healthcare technology forums, panels, and strategic client briefings.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience in a related field (i.e. solutions engineering, architecture, or consulting role.) The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6years' experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years' experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field
- 5 years focused on the healthcare sector.
- Familiarity with clinical and administrative systems (Epic, Cerner, PACS, HL7/FHIR, etc.).
- Strong understanding of healthcare operational priorities, from uptime and failover for critical apps to navigating capital and operational funding constraints.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hosted Cloud / Data Center: Strong knowledge of VMware, storage (SAN/NAS), and VDI/DaaS environments that host healthcare-related applications and workloads.
- Public Cloud: Familiar with hybrid architectures that span AWS, Azure, and GCP - especially those optimized for healthcare workloads.
- Security and Compliance: Experience designing secure, compliant solutions for protected health information (PHI), including MDR, IAM, and encrypted backup/DR strategies.
- LAN/WAN Networking: Ability to design and optimize connectivity strategies between facilities, cloud regions, and co-located environments.
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Proven experience with high-availability solutions that support healthcare's uptime expectations and testing/audit needs.
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