Software Architect, Scheduling
Athenahealth2 days ago
Base Salary
$216k - $368k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop target-state architecture and multi-quarter migration roadmaps for complex platform capabilities across multiple teams.
- Define architecture principles, technical standards, reference patterns, and architecture decision records.
- Design scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems with measurable outcomes tied to SLOs, benchmarks, and operational results.
- Establish observability, incident response, runbook, and capacity planning practices.
- Evaluate event-driven architecture and workflow orchestration approaches, including failure modes, resiliency, and interoperability.
- Influence engineering, product, security, and operations leaders on platform direction and modernization priorities without direct authority.
- Review application, data, and integration designs for architectural alignment, compliance, and long-term platform goals.
- Guide technical tradeoff decisions balancing delivery speed, maintainability, cost, and risk.
- Architect, evaluate, and govern production AI capabilities, including orchestration, tool-calling, context and state handling, monitoring, and model risk controls.
- Use hands-on technical depth in infrastructure as code, container platforms, CI/CD, and Java or a comparable modern language to prototype, review, and refine solutions.
- Support shared platform modernization, architecture governance, integration standards, versioning, contract management, incident reviews, technical debt reduction, and security, privacy, auditability, and access-control patterns.
- Mentor engineers and architects through design feedback and technical discussions and evaluate emerging technologies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of architecture ownership across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated success leading architecture strategy for complex distributed software systems and creating target-state architectures with measurable migration outcomes.
- Experience defining and operationalizing architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and architecture decision records.
- Strong system-design background in 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, CI/CD pipelines, and Java or a comparable modern language.
- Experience designing or governing production AI-enabled systems, including orchestration, monitoring, and model risk considerations.
- Experience building systems in regulated environments with attention to compliance, consent, data governance, auditability, and access control.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to drive adoption across teams and functions.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $216,000-$368,000, with potential annual discretionary bonus, variable compensation, and equity plans depending on eligibility.
- Health and financial benefits, commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces.
- Hybrid work model based in Austin, Texas, with flexibility intended to support work-life balance and digital collaboration.
- Company-sponsored events including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons, along with learning support and an inclusive work environment.
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.