Technical Architect II

ZipStaff is seeking a Technical Architect II - AI-Native to lead solution architecture for an assigned business area at a leading healthcare analytics and payment-integrity organization.

You will turn product and architecture direction into implementable designs across applications, services, APIs, data flows, and platform components - and treat AI as both a product capability and an engineering accelerator (agents, copilots, code generation, automated testing). This is a hands-on architecture seat in a regulated healthcare domain, not a slide-only enterprise-architect role. What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive architecture for the assigned business area.
• Translate business/product intent into delivery-ready designs and specifications.
• Design systems that use AI-enabled capabilities where they create clear business value.
• Set guardrails for safe, accountable use of AI in applications and engineering workflows.
• Advance AI-assisted development: copilots, agents, code generation, automated testing, reusable AI skills.
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, and design reviews (APIs, services, data flows, platform).
• Guide trade-offs across cost, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with developers and tech leads so architecture is realized in code.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, security, data, and enterprise architecture.
• Mentor engineers and other architects on modern and AI-assisted delivery practices.

• 8+ years designing and building web, workflow, service, and backend applications, including architecture ownership for one or more teams.
• Strong application / solution architecture: API design, service decomposition, integration patterns, workflow-oriented applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern languages/frameworks such as Java, Golang, Spring, or comparable stacks.
• Deep familiarity with microservices, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, streaming, and enterprise integration.
• Experience applying AI-assisted development, agent-based workflows, and reusable AI skills with judgment on correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Strong SDLC background: Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, APM/observability.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs and lead architecture decisions without daily supervision.
• Ability to review implementation detail and stay credible with developers.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Dedicated secure home office and high-speed internet.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare data, clinical/administrative workflows, or regulated-industry architecture.
• Experience translating regulatory requirements into technical design.
• Mentoring architects/engineers and leading without formal authority.

About ZipStaff ZipStaff partners with leading organizations to connect skilled technology professionals with high-impact contract opportunities. We focus on quality matches and long-term success.

To apply, please submit your resume highlighting solution architecture, cloud-native services/APIs, and hands-on AI-assisted or agent-based engineering practices.