Solution Lead/ Architect

Job Title

Pay Range: $63hr - $68hr

Responsibilities

Business Partnership:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and define long term technology roadmaps and architectural vision.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:

• Act as a trusted advisor by translating complex business requirements into clear technical solutions.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, including both technical and non technical stakeholders.

Technical Leadership:

• Guide project teams to ensure alignment with KP architectural standards and best practices.
• Conduct design reviews and ensure technical artifacts are sound and high quality.

Risk Management:

• Identify technical risks throughout the project lifecycle and communicate potential impacts proactively.

Innovation and Emerging Technologies:

• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies—including Digital, AI, and Cloud—to drive business innovation and enhanced capabilities.

Value Stream Solution Delivery:

• Support definition of solution and functional requirements to ensure workstreams have clarity across all stages of delivery.
• Participate in business requirements definition and solution impact analysis.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to support business strategy.
• Break down business requirements into features, scalable components, and user stories.
• Maintain traceability between requirements and solution components, including management of Jira stories.
• Develop logical solution design artifacts such as diagrams and logical solution design document at the initiative level.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., PI planning, syncs, solution demos).
• Communicate functional/non-functional requirements and solution designs across workstreams to ensure alignment and clarity of enhancements required.
• Provide hands on technical leadership to resolve integration issues.
• Collaborate with IT Design Leads across value streams to maintain consistency and alignment of solution.
• Provide input on testing strategy and review test cases as needed.
• Support consolidation of design documentation into initiative level architecture artifacts (e.g., Solution Architecture Description document).
• Escalate risks, blockers, or design conflicts to IT Design Principal and IT leadership when necessary.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders.
• Strong technical expertise across current platforms and technologies.
• Proven experience working with business teams to define and deliver solutions.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in solution architecture within business or functional projects.
• Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and methodologies.
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile, DevOps, and industry best practices.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, with a strong preference for candidates who have worked with Kaiser.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Lucid, and Confluence.