18 hours ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$118k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-level healthcare data, analytics, application, and AI-enabled solutions.
- Own technical delivery across complex engagements from discovery and solution design through development, deployment, validation, and transition.
- Define reusable architecture patterns, development frameworks, code libraries, integration standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, observable, and aligned with technology, data governance, security, and architecture standards.
- Facilitate technical design sessions, architecture reviews, solution reviews, and technical working sessions.
- Identify and address risks involving infrastructure, data access, integration, security, architecture, and governance.
- Partner with client leaders, analysts, engineers, clinicians, and business teams to translate healthcare challenges into technical solutions.
- Advise senior client leaders and communicate architectural decisions and implementation considerations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Apply AI-assisted and agentic development approaches and build experimentation frameworks for prototyping, evaluation, refinement, and production transition.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Application Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence through technical coaching, reusable assets, documented practices, communities of practice, and consistent standards.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of relevant experience.
- Relevant degree preferred.
- Experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex, multi-component technical solutions.
- Experience with healthcare data, healthcare analytics, or healthcare technology.
- Advanced expertise in SQL and modern cloud-based data and application development platforms, including Databricks.
- Experience integrating data platforms, APIs, application layers, visualization tools, and cloud services.
- Strong consultative, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder presentation skills.
- Experience with AI-assisted development, large language models, agentic workflows, or related AI technologies is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture, application integration, security-by-design principles, source control, and CI/CD practices is preferred.
- Experience rapidly prototyping solutions and transitioning successful concepts into scalable implementations is preferred.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical standards across teams without direct reporting authority is preferred.
- Knowledge of Vizient data, analytics products, or the Clinical Data Base is preferred.
- Willingness to travel.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits plan.
- The position is incentive eligible.
- Geographic factors may adjust the salary range, and hiring decisions are tailored to individual circumstances.
- Willingness to travel is required.
- The employer states an equal employment opportunity commitment.
Tech Stack
DatabricksSQL
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Vizient
Vizient provides healthcare performance improvement solutions to U.S. hospitals and health systems, combining a group purchasing organization with clinical, operational, and financial analytics and advisory services. Members access a national contract portfolio representing about $156 billion in annual purchasing volume and benchmarking data drawn from extensive provider networks. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, the privately held company serves more than two-thirds of U.S. acute care providers and acquired Kaufman Hall in 2024.