Senior IT Architect

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Job Summary and Qualifications

The Senior IT Architect is responsible for designing and implementing end-to-end solutions that address specific business needs within clinical, supply chain, and revenue cycle domains. This role translates business requirements into concrete technical specifications and designs, ensuring that solutions are aligned with architectural standards, scalable, secure, and maintainable. The architect will perform feasibility studies, assess the impact of proposed solutions, and oversee the implementation process to ensure successful delivery. This includes consideration for workflows, data integration, and regulatory compliance in areas such as patient care, inventory management, billing, and claims processing.

The Senior IT Architect provides technical leadership and guidance to development teams, working closely with business stakeholders, analysts, and other architects to ensure a shared understanding of the solution and its impact. This includes facilitating communication and alignment between domain-specific teams. Excellent communication, proposal, and presentation skills are required to effectively communicate solution designs and implementation plans to senior management, development staff, and other stakeholders.

The Senior IT Architect is within an innovation team and requires the ability to work on diverse projects across the enterprise. The candidate must be comfortable navigating different technical ecosystems, adapting to existing systems, collaborating with various teams, and engaging with business stakeholders across clinical, supply chain, and revenue cycle areas. A strong understanding of integration patterns, cloud technologies, and modern development practices is essential.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Foster a collaborative team environment, working closely with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery aligned with business objectives and architectural standards. Facilitate communication and knowledge sharing across teams.

Collaborate with stakeholders (business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, and end users) to deeply understand functional and non-functional requirements, translating them into detailed solution designs that meet those needs

Lead investigations into complex development and design problems, proposing innovative and effective solutions that leverage appropriate technologies and architectural patterns. Evaluate and recommend different solution options based on feasibility, cost, and business impact.

Guide development teams in scoping and estimating the effort required to implement specific solutions, ensuring that estimates are accurate and realistic based on the complexity and scope of the design.

Serve as community leader in promoting and enforcing architectural, design, implementation, and security standards and best practices across solution development projects. Act as a subject matter expert on specific technologies or architectural patterns.

Design and execute proof-of-concept (POC) or proof-of-technology (POT) tasks to validate proposed solution designs and ensure that they meet performance, scalability, and security requirements. Present POC findings to stakeholders to gain buy-in and confidence in the proposed solution.

Prepare and present solution designs, feasibility studies, and impact analysis to diverse audiences, ranging from senior management to developers and testers. Tailor communication to the specific needs and technical understanding of each audience.

Produce comprehensive architectural and design documentation to guide development teams in building and implementing solutions.

Formulate unit and integration tests, and conduct functional and performance testing as appropriate, to ensure the quality and reliability of the implemented solution.

Adhere to established development practices and processes and actively contribute to their improvement based on experience gained during solution development projects. Advocate for the adoption of best practices and tools.

Train and mentor peers and other staff as needed.

What qualifications you will need:

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science - Preferred

EXPERIENCE

7 or more years of experience in Software development or engineering roles - Required

5 or more years of experience in solutioning software including Architecture - Preferred

Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience could be considered

OTHER SKILLS & ABILITIES

Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks - Required

Full stack experience working with a broad range of languages, platforms, and systems, including: SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, MongoDB); ETL and data pipeline tools (e.g. GCP DataFlow, Azure DataFactory); message queue and event streaming systems (e.g. Azure EventHub, GCP PubSub, ServiceBus); microservice environments (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes); API and service frameworks (e.g. REST, WCF, Swagger, OpenAPI); front end frameworks (e.g. ReactJs, Angular); backend application development using modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g. .NET, C#, Python) for services, automation, and integration workflows; DevOps and collaboration tooling (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence); and advanced AI/ML capabilities including model operationalization, generative AI, LLMs, distributed LLM deployment and inference, RAG architectures, MCP, agentic workflows, and prompt engineering - Required

Experience with DevOps tooling (e.g. GitHub, Azure DevOps) - Required

Strong experience with cloud native development, including deploying solutions in cloud environments using serverless and container based architectures, as well as hands on expertise with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP for deployment, configuration, and integration within modern application ecosystems - Required

Strong understanding of best practices in the design of REST-based APIs - Required

Strong Understanding of agile methodology and software development lifecycles - Required

Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing - Required

Ability to lead community events with a focus on software development or delivery - Required

Excellent problem solving and analytical skills - Required

Troubleshooting skills including experience working with utilities for log analysis and load testing - Required

Ability to work independently and lead a team to specific outcomes - Required

Strong ability to understand context for codebase, and its relation to business objectives - Required

Understanding of IT contracting and purchasing practices - Preferred

Ability to lead technical interviews of potential candidates of vary levels - Preferred

Ensure all solutions adhere to rigorous healthcare regulatory and security standards, including HIPAA and HITECH, by implementing appropriate technical safeguards, enforcing organizational PHI protection policies, and aligning system design with enterprise risk, compliance, and security architecture frameworks - Preferred

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Senior IT Architect opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

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