Solutions Architect I or II, DOE - Healthcare Services

Hybrid (In office 3 days/week) within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah.

As a member of the IT Architecture team, Cambia Architects provide authoritative advice to business executives and IT on how to best solve tough business and technical problems. You’ll focus on designing and evolving health‑care solutions that support clinical workflows, including care management, utilization management, appeals, and member and provider engagement. You’ll provide authoritative guidance on system architecture across web, mobile, integration, and data platforms to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with clinical and operational needs.

Qualifications

The Solutions Architect I would have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related/relevant field, plus seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at least three years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing end‑to‑end solutions in complex environments. This role requires a strong understanding of health insurance and health‑care operations, including areas such as care management, utilization management, appeals, and other services that support members, care teams, and clinical programs.

Preferred experience includes designing solutions that integrate multiple internal systems and external vendor platforms commonly used in healthcare environments. Familiarity with API‑based and integration‑driven architectures, authentication and authorization systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO), and HIPAA‑compliant solution design is preferred. Experience supporting applications and workflows used by members, providers, and care teams is a plus, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

The Solutions Architect II would have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related/relevant field, with an advanced degree preferred, plus seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and at least five years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing complex, enterprise‑scale solutions. This role requires deep domain understanding of health insurance and healthcare service delivery, including care management, utilization management, appeals, clinical programs, and regulatory requirements.

The Solutions Architect II is expected to lead architecture across complex healthcare ecosystems that include core enterprise platforms, vendor solutions, and integration layers. Preferred experience includes healthcare interoperability and data exchange patterns, API‑driven architectures, security and privacy controls, and HIPAA‑compliant solution design. Experience designing solutions used by care teams, clinicians, operational staff, and external partners is strongly desired, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Attributes

• Experience designing solutions that support health‑insurance operations or health‑services domains such as care management, utilization management, appeals, or clinical programs
• Familiarity with healthcare data exchange and integration patterns, including FHIR, HL7, X12/EDI, or equivalent interoperability approaches
• Experience working with vendor platforms and complex integration ecosystems common in healthcare
• API design and management for mobile and web consumption
• Experience with designing solutions in AWS
• Comfortable writing SQL and doing data analysis
• Comfortable creating prototype/POC solutions
• Experience with business process management (BPM) and business rules engines (BRE)
• Designing a variety of solutions – data pipelines, user interfaces, microservices, business process orchestrations
• Demonstrated understanding of complex systems integration issues involving many disparate data sources, and experience in resolving them through providing clear direction on scope of solution. Understands and resolves highly complex large scale or systems level problems. Able to quickly and efficiently solve such problems using team resources to coordinate solutions.
• Experience writing code to solve a broad range of problems of varying complexity
• Ability to work with business in their language to support and promote concepts
• Demonstrated high levels of personal output and ability to increase the productivity of architecture function
• Demonstrated interpersonal savvy, relates well to all kinds of people in the organization regardless of level, establishes trust and constructive relationships
• Demonstrated good decision quality, makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
• Demonstrated leadership skills for large projects in a technological field with a high emphasis on communicative and interpersonal relationship skills is required
• Demonstrated excellent negotiation skills with both internal and external groups including ability to settle differences with a minimal noise and maximum diplomacy and tact. Includes ability to influence without direct authority
• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision‑making in professional settings highly desired

What You Will Do

• Design scalable, secure architecture for member authentication and authorization systems
• Lead technical strategy for clinical integrations and various internal clinical applications
• Establish performance benchmarks and monitoring strategies for applications
• Engage in business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archive and recovery strategy and security
• Provide overall technical leadership to multiple business teams
• Apply reference architectures and patterns to the architecture and design of technology solutions and services
• Clearly document all solutions within the EA Modeling Environment
• Actively participate in the review and governance of architecture quality
• Receive general feedback from management, customers, or other external sources and translate that feedback into an overall technical direction
• Mentor developers in the definition of technology implementation strategies and provide assistance where needed in transitioning the technology to the delivery organization

Compensation

The expected hiring range for a Solutions Architect I is $114K – $143K/year depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure/certifications; and performance history. The bonus target for this position is 15%. The current full salary range for this role is $114K – $186K/year.

The expected hiring range for a Solutions Architect II is $140K – $175K/year depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure/certifications; and performance history. The bonus target for this position is 20%. The current full salary range for this role is $140K – $228K/year.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits
• Annual employer contribution to a health savings account
• Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company‑paid holidays
• Market‑leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period)
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave)
• Award‑winning wellness programs that reward you for participation
• Employee Assistance Fund for those in need
• Commute and parking benefits

We are an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to a drug and tobacco‑free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. A background check is required.