Senior Solution Architect
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Job description
The Solution Architect is a senior individual contributor role responsible for translating business, clinical, and technical requirements into cohesive, secure, and scalable solution designs across Texas Oncology. This role owns solution-level architecture for assigned initiatives, ensuring designs align with enterprise architecture standards, support long-term platform strategy, and are feasible to build and operate at scale.
Operating between Enterprise Architecture and delivery teams, the Solution Architect provides hands-on technical leadership during design and implementation, guiding system integration, data flows, application design, and non-functional requirements while enabling delivery teams to execute effectively., * Own end-to-end solution architecture for assigned initiatives, including application, integration, and data design.
- Translate business and clinical requirements into logical and physical architecture designs.
- Define non-functional requirements including security, scalability, performance, resilience, and supportability.
Enterprise Architecture Alignment
- Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, architecture principles, and strategic roadmaps.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects on platform selection, reuse, and technology tradeoffs.
- Document architecture decisions, assumptions, and rationale.
Delivery & Implementation Enablement
- Provide technical guidance to delivery teams during build, integration, testing, and deployment.
- Review detailed designs and implementation artifacts for architectural compliance.
- Support production readiness, go-live planning, and handoff to operations.
Stakeholder & Vendor Collaboration
- Partner with analysts, product owners, and IT Project Managers to ensure clarity of intent and feasibility.
- Engage with vendors and implementation partners to ensure solutions meet design expectations.
- Communicate architectural concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Participate in architecture reviews and governance forums.
- Identify opportunities to improve patterns, standards, and reusable assets.
- Contribute to maturation of solution architecture practices across IT.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 8-10 years of experience in solution architecture or senior-level systems design roles.
- Strong experience designing enterprise applications, integrations, and data flows.
- Demonstrated ability to balance business needs with technical and architectural constraints., * Healthcare IT or regulated-industry experience.
- Experience with cloud, integration platforms, and enterprise data environments.
- Skilled in modern architecture patterns and SDLC methodologies., The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be offered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is performed in an office environment. Involves frequent interaction with corporate and field staff, as well as external customers and contacts. Work may require some travel by air or automobile. Fantastic time-management skills with the ability to multi-task.