The Role
Leads pre-sales solution architecture for a healthcare data platform. Responsibilities include understanding client needs, designing architectures, supporting data migration, preparing RFP responses, delivering presentations and demonstrations, developing proofs of concept, supporting account strategies, and acting as a technical liaison across customers, sales, engineering, product, and support teams. The role requires expertise in HL7 FHIR, healthcare integrations, scalable system design, implementation consulting, executive communication, and software development practices.
Summary Generated by Built In
Working for a company like Smile Digital Health means supporting our mandate for #BetterGlobalHealth. We strive towards this goal every day, and the results can be seen in the impact of our innovative health data platform and data management solutions, which are used in over 20 countries. We were #19 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Ranking for 2024!
Smile Digital Health makes it easy for healthcare stakeholders to collect and exchange data with our leading FHIR-based data liberation platform.
At its heart, the Smile platform enables people and organizations to better manage healthcare data. We help generate and liberate structured healthcare data to ensure effective delivery across care teams and health systems bringing #BetterGlobalHealth to patients everyday!
Apply today and find plenty of reasons to SMILE!
This role will be responsible for assisting in shaping and delivering on the Health Data Platform vision anchored in Smile Digital Health’s growing suite of products. As a trusted Solutions Architect – Sales on the sales team, you will help Clients and prospective customers understand the full breadth, technical and business details of Smile’s solutions through exploratory conversations, presentations, demonstrations, architectural diagrams/documentation, and other activities to understand and scope customer specific requirements. You will also support the development of responses to RFPs, RFIs and similar solicitation documents by detailing the adoption and migration of a customer’s existing systems and data to the Smile platform.
Responsibilities:
- Develop strong relationships with varying levels of strategic clients and maintain up-to-date knowledge of business objectives, vision and goals to determine client roadmap alignment with the Smile product roadmap.
- Collaborate closely with the Sales team to proactively lead the customer on their buying journey by understanding and anticipating their needs and pain points and offering impactful, persuasive solutioning.
- Provide scoping and sandbox environment support and substantiate business and technical solutions offered to existing and prospective clients.
- Create high-level IT architecture specifications and design documents along with troubleshooting and resolving issues with design.
- Assembling details and justifications for proposed solutions and presenting them to Smile’s Architecture Review Board for approval.
- Identify solutions for existing challenges or obstacles and anticipate potential future challenges.
- Support the design and migration of data to Smile’s platform while being sensitive to the customer’s business model and cultural transformation towards a Smile Health Data Fabric.
- Support and contribute to strategic customer proposals by preparing and delivering technical presentations explaining products and services to prospective strategic clients and on-going technical consultation.
- Participate in the development and execution of product demos and POCs to highlight compelling Smile capabilities.
- Collaborate closely with the Sales team to develop and implement effective account management strategies by providing subject matter expertise on a customer’s current and prospective technical needs and determine how Smile’s solution(s) can meet their business goals and objectives.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, product teams and support to bring the voice of the customer toSmile products.
- Rapidly develop and maintain a deep knowledge of Smile’s products, HL7 FHIR, market trends, customer environments and the competitive landscape.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to continuously improve product, sales and marketing from a technical perspective.
Responsibilities:
- 5-10+ years of experience leading business development, technical sales and/or customer consulting as well as contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Strong knowledge of healthcare technology in one or more facets of the industry – providers, payers, exchanges, government programs – is highly preferred
- Knowledge of HL7 FHIR and legacy healthcare integration standards and practices is required
- Significant hands-on experience in implementation and customer consulting, particularly with identifying and understanding a customer’s particular business challenges.
- Experience building complex technology-based systems that have been successfully delivered to customers at scale.
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through the launch of implementation.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical software product features, technical designs, product strategy, and intended solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to present and influence all levels of an organization up to and including C-level/Executive level.
- Previous experience leading and/or providing senior-level contributions to strategic RFP response development.
- Knowledge of professional software development practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience providing support to new hires and colleagues to improve their skills and help elevate the effectiveness of the overall team and company.
Additional Information:
Smile discloses that artificial intelligence (AI) may be used in portions of the recruitment and selection process, such as resume screening or application assessment. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by qualified human decision-makers, and AI tools are used to support — not replace — fair and equitable hiring practices.
This position is a replacement role, created to support Smile’s continued growth and commitment to operational excellence.
This position is a replacement role, created to support Smile’s continued growth and commitment to operational excellence.
Some of the benefits we offer:
* Remote Work Environment
* Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days
* Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
* RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution
* Life and Disability
* Employee Assistance Program
* FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
* Super HAPI Fun Club
Smile's core values include respect, inclusion, embracing our differences, and celebrating shared values because our people are the foundation of our success. We are big on creating a sense of belonging and empowering each other to bring our authentic selves to work. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Candidates are encouraged to inform us if they wish to discuss or require accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile.
Skills Required
- 5–10+ years of experience leading business development, technical sales, customer consulting, system design, or architecture
- Strong knowledge of healthcare technology across providers, payers, exchanges, or government programs
- Knowledge of HL7 FHIR and legacy healthcare integration standards and practices
- Significant hands-on implementation and customer consulting experience
- Experience identifying and understanding customer business challenges
- Experience building complex technology-based systems successfully delivered to customers at scale
- Ability to take projects from requirements scoping through implementation launch
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical products, designs, strategy, and solutions
- Ability to present to and influence all organizational levels, including C-level executives
- Experience leading or making senior-level contributions to strategic RFP responses
- Knowledge of software development practices across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations
- Experience supporting new hires and colleagues to improve team effectiveness
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The Company
What We Do
Smile Digital Health (doing business as Smile CDR Inc.) specializes in delivering fast, secure, compliant data infrastructures as a service to enable and empower interconnectivity for data-intensive sectors such as healthcare. We are a solutions platform helping organizations like governments, researchers, health systems, healthcare providers, and app developers build connected health solutions and products by leveraging our core expertise in health data and HL7 FHIR. Our flagship product, Smile CDR, is the world’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) as a service. Smile CDR is a high performance and secure solution built on the principles of Privacy by Design. Flexibility is a hallmark of the service as it can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises depending on your needs. The design was strongly influenced by real-world experience in both the jurisdictional and organizational setting. Smile CDR provides a rich set of features and capabilities including: -Multiple FHIR versions -FHIR Profiles -Full text indexing of clinical records -Type ahead search functionality -FHIR, HL7v2 and custom ETL for data input -Federated identity and identity provider functionality -International character locale support -Terminology services -Auditing -Smart on FHIR support -Rapid deployment -Extensive administrative tooling Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in building enterprise-class systems, our team includes experts in building integrated healthcare systems including FHIR-based solutions such as HAPI, e-prescriptions and other e-health solutions. We were motivated by the need to improve upon existing options for sharing health data within and across organizations. Smile CDR is the maintainer of HAPI FHIR, the prevailing open source reference implementation of FHIR worldwide
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