Senior Enterprise Architect

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions — from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.
 

Job Summary

The Senior Enterprise Architect is responsible for shaping, guiding, and communicating the enterprise architecture of Surescripts’ applications and systems. This role spans the organization, collaborating closely with engineering and product management teams to ensure cohesive, scalable, and innovative designs across our network systems and applications.

Acting as a strategic facilitator, the incumbent will champion architectural best practices and design principles, helping teams identify key challenges and drive transparent, efficient decision-making. This is a highly hands-on role that demands deep technical expertise across multiple platforms, including the ability to prototype, develop, or integrate functionality in close partnership with engineering teams.

A critical aspect of this role involves evaluating and integrating system infrastructures and services from new partners or acquisitions. The architect will define integration roadmaps that align with Surescripts’ long-term architectural vision and innovation goals. This individual will also engage with VP and C-level technology and business leaders both internally and externally, to align architectural strategies with business objectives and ensure the successful evolution of our technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and strategy teams to explore how emerging technologies can enable new products and features.

• Rapidly prototype architectural concepts to validate feasibility and accelerate innovation cycles.

• Translate visionary product ideas into scalable, secure, and maintainable architectural solutions.  

• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals.

• Work closely with engineering teams to design systems for improved functionality and reliability.

• Provide expert guidance on best practices for both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.

• Analyze, assess, and promote emerging industry standards, tools, and techniques.

• Identify, define, and prioritize key infrastructure functionality necessary to build or buy to meet the needs of the business.

• Draft and maintain detailed systems architecture documentation.

• Technical due diligence of potential partners and acquisitions from C-level to engineering and operations staff.

Qualifications Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

• 12+ years of experience demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility and technical leadership

• 12 years of software development experience

• 5 years of data modeling design experience

• 5 years of architecture experience

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Experience translating business strategy into technical execution

• Experience in early phase product design, prototyping, estimation, and iteration

• Experience in C#, Java, and Python

• Experience designing and implementing large scale solution architectures, with a focus on distributed systems and cloud-native technologies

• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their core services, including cost optimization best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in Healthcare IT

• Healthcare domain knowledge - EHRs, insurance payers, pharmacies, drug databases

• Experience and understanding of healthcare regulatory requirements and laws

• Management and leadership experience

• Software consulting experience

• Experience with GCP services like GKE, AlloyDB, Bigtable, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, BigQuery and Pub/Sub or similar cloud platforms

• Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, InfluxDB, HashiCorp Consul, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible

• Experience with DevOps, GitOps, and continuous delivery

• UI design and development experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Angular, React, Bootstrap

• AI and machine learning experience

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.
 

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.

What You’re Like 

You’re relentless in getting stuff done. You apply your expertise in an Agile/DevOps world with other talented people. You’re curious about new technology and use your curiosity as fuel to deliver meaningful solutions. And you’re into incremental efforts that ultimately reap huge results.
 

What We’re Like

We’re a smart team that loves to work toward a common goal: delivering innovative, industry-leading solutions that improve patient care. We pride ourselves on quality work grounded in transparency and accountability. Our goal is to make a positive impact on healthcare, be it on quality, cost, or patient safety. 
 

What the Work is Like

Is your thinking cap on? (Do they still make those?) Here, our challenge is to connect disparate, cross-functional skills to create the desired result. We focus on important milestones, work to understand diverse technologies and develop relationships with various groups of people with varied perspectives.    
 

Why Wait? Apply Now

We’re a midsize company. This means you’re not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.
 

At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $198,700 - $242,900 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.
 

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.