Information Technology Architect

Job Title: Senior IT Architect (Enterprise Applications / Clinical Platforms)

Location: Irving, Texas, United States

Type: Full Time

Our client is looking for an experienced IT Architect to lead the design and evolution of modern, cloud-based integration solutions across products and partner ecosystems. This role will focus on building scalable, secure, and high-performing integration frameworks using API-led and event-driven architectures.

You will play a critical role in shaping the organization’s integration strategy, enabling seamless data exchange, and ensuring systems are designed for long-term scalability, reliability, and ease of change.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise integration architecture across systems, services, and platforms
• Collaborate with product, business, and engineering teams to translate requirements into robust architectural solutions
• Establish standards, design patterns, and best practices for APIs, integration, security, and operational readiness
• Lead the design of API-first and event-driven integration models, including asynchronous workflows and messaging patterns
• Develop scalable and resilient architecture using modern patterns such as retries, fault tolerance, caching, and circuit breakers
• Guide the implementation of messaging systems (e.g., Kafka or equivalent) and ensure proper event design and lifecycle management
• Ensure secure integration practices through authentication, authorization, and data protection approaches
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers and promoting engineering excellence
• Drive collaboration across teams to align on architectural decisions and technology direction
• Support production environments by ensuring observability, monitoring, and continuous improvement of systems

Technical Environment

• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• API development: RESTful services, API gateways, OpenAPI standards
• Event-driven systems: Kafka or similar messaging technologies
• Microservices architecture, containerization (Docker), and modern deployment frameworks
• Databases and data platforms including relational systems, caching tools, and analytics pipelines
• Observability tools for logging, monitoring, and tracing
• CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant exposure to architectural design
• Strong expertise in integration architecture, APIs, and event-driven systems
• Solid knowledge of cloud-native design principles and microservices-based architectures
• Experience building scalable, secure, and highly available systems
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate across multiple teams
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Skills

• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 or FHIR (nice to have)
• Exposure to messaging platforms, caching systems, and data processing tools
• Hands-on experience with modern frameworks and API management practices
• Familiarity with observability tools and production support best practices
• Exposure to AI/ML-enabled applications or modern data-driven solutions

Key Competencies

• Strong architectural thinking with a focus on scalability and reliability
• Ability to simplify complex systems and create practical, reusable solutions
• Leadership and mentoring mindset
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Collaborative approach with cross-functional teams
• Focus on delivering high-quality, production-ready systems