Software Architect, Insurance and Payment - athenaCollector
Athenahealth4 days ago
Base Salary
$216k - $366k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop target-state architecture and multi-quarter migration roadmaps for platform capabilities across Medical Insurance and Payment teams.
- Define architecture principles, technical standards, reference patterns, decision records, integration standards, versioning approaches, and contract management practices.
- Analyze monolithic systems, identify modernization opportunities and pitfalls, and develop migration strategies.
- Design scalable, reliable, performant distributed systems with measurable outcomes tied to SLOs, benchmarks, and operational results.
- Establish observability, incident response, runbook, capacity planning, and operational readiness practices.
- Evaluate event-driven architectures and workflow orchestration approaches, including failure modes, resiliency, and interoperability.
- Influence engineering, product, security, and operations leaders and guide technical tradeoff decisions without direct authority.
- Review application, data, and integration designs for alignment with architecture standards, compliance, and long-term platform goals.
- Architect, evaluate, and govern production AI capabilities, including orchestration, tool-calling patterns, context and state handling, monitoring, and model risk controls.
- Use hands-on technical depth in infrastructure as code, container platforms, continuous integration and delivery, and Java or a comparable modern language to prototype and refine solutions.
- Mentor engineers and architects, participate in architecture reviews and incident reviews, evaluate emerging technologies, and support technical debt and platform investment planning.
- Help define security, privacy, auditability, consent, data governance, and access-control patterns for regulated systems.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant architecture ownership across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture strategy for complex distributed software systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Java, AI tools, enterprise applications, Kubernetes, and modern LLM tools.
- Experience creating target-state architectures and multi-quarter migration plans with measurable delivery outcomes.
- Experience defining and operationalizing architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and architecture decision records.
- Strong background in system design for scalability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Deep knowledge of observability and Site Reliability Engineering practices, including SLOs, alerting, incident management, and post-mortems.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, API design, contract versioning, and workflow orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, container platforms, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and related tooling.
- Experience designing or governing AI-enabled systems in production, including orchestration, monitoring, and model risk considerations.
- Experience building systems in regulated environments with compliance, consent, data governance, auditability, and access-control requirements.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to drive adoption across teams and functions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model based in Boston, MA, with flexibility for balancing in-office collaboration and remote work.
- Health and financial benefits, including role-eligible annual discretionary bonus, variable compensation, and equity plans.
- Commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces.
- Company-sponsored book clubs, external speakers, hackathons, learning opportunities, and an inclusive work environment.
- Some offices welcome dogs.
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About Athenahealth
Athenahealth builds cloud-based electronic health records, practice management, revenue cycle, and patient engagement software for medical practices and health systems, often paired with technology-enabled billing services. The company sells its platform on a subscription basis and supports high-volume clinical and financial workflows across its network. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Boston, it is privately held under Bain Capital.