IT Principal Solutions Architect - Barrow
Careers Commonspirit, Location not stated
The role
As the Principal Solutions Architect, you will serve as a technology visionary, responsible for supporting groundbreaking neuroscience-based clinical practice and research, by enabling advanced technological platforms. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role, where you will design and lead the architectural strategy for mission-critical initiatives and advanced neuro-technology capabilities, directly serving Barrow Neurological Institute's world-renowned clinicians, researchers, and educators.
You will bridge software engineering excellence with a robust enterprise architecture discipline, to accelerate the modernization of Barrow's unique and complex technological ecosystem.
Every day, you will be responsible for specific application, database, network, infrastructure, and/or engineering portfolios/platforms, and will support high-performance computing architecture. This involves driving successful solution adoption from technology planning, investment decisions, implementation, to ongoing operational support for medium complexity portfolios. You will actively identify and accelerate the elimination of non-strategic technology platforms, optimizing our landscape.
To be successful in this role, you will possess a strong combination of business, technical, and leadership skills, with extensive experience in solution architecture and technology strategy. You will demonstrate exceptional problem-solving abilities, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of application, infrastructure, and network technologies.
What you need
- Bachelors Degree in either Business Administration, Information Technology, Education, Management, or related fields
- Ten (10)+ years of experience in software engineering and/or application architecture OR
- Ten (10)+ years of experience in a senior technical role, technical leadership role, or principal-level role
- Demonstrated experience in health-care IT, digital health platforms, or clinical systems integration
- Expert level understanding of cloud architecture (GCP, AWS, or Azure), APIs (REST, GraphQL, FHIR), mobile/web development and Artificial Intelligence
- Expert level understanding in modern backend full-stack systems and frontend language/frameworks
- Advanced proficiency with modern API-led architecture, event-driven design, data driven services and health-care interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, SMART on FHIR)
- Systems thinking and the ability to abstract and decompose complex problems
- Demonstrated experience engaging, translating and influencing with both technical and non-technical executive level stakeholders; Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proven ability to align technical decisions to broader organizational strategy and goals
