Senior System Architect

Overview
The Systems Architect is responsible for the technical design and implementation of software and infrastructure solutions, as well as providing technical leadership to multiple software, infrastructure, and DevOps teams. You will be a member of Uprise Health’s technology team, which develops software for multiple regions and sales channels.

Relationship Builder: You will assist in the architecture decisions for all Uprise Health technology projects and will be responsible for the arrangement of software and infrastructure services. The Systems Architect will liaise with other teams as part of larger integration efforts and to be responsible for ensuring our solutions are consistent with our security, performance, privacy, and flexibility standards, as well as shepherding solutions through our software development lifecycle.

Team-advocate: You bring an entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to pitch in that gets things done while inspiring those around you to collaborate from product design to development, to implementing revenue-generating software.
Responsibilities
This role is responsible for ensuring Uprise products meet our architectural standards regarding security, privacy, performance, and scalability.  Leverage broad and deep understanding of technologies and Uprise’s business processes to provide architectural direction to both on and offshore Software Development teams. This position assists in the design and architecture decisions for all technology projects. You must stay current with relevant software technologies and best practices. Help estimate resources needed for projects, plus the following:

• 10+ years of technical leadership and architecture experience
• Design, develop, and execute software solutions to address business requirements
• Security minded plus relevant experience with security tools
• Provide architectural blueprints for development teams
• Remain plugged in to enterprise architecture and security groups to ensure our solutions remain compliant with emerging standards
• Lead architectural design sessions with product, IT and development teams
• Consider product strategy, time to market, cost, user experience, and available resources as part of overall architectural solutions
• Communicate and influence a variety of audiences, including those in non-technical roles
• ​Help make effective build vs buy decisions
• A thorough understanding of software analysis and design and enterprise architecture patterns
• Experience with Designing, Developing, and Maintaining Hosting Infrastructure (Cloud and Traditional)
• Experience with multiple database management systems, including Postgres, NoSQL, AWS RDS
• Proven ability to think strategically, innovatively, and develop tactical execution plans to drive success
• Ability to work with legal, risk, compliance, marketing, IT, call centers, and other cross-functional teams to deliver strategic and tactical plans
• Proven ability to analyze and evaluate technologies and vendors to drive strategic and tactical recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication with strong presence; able to develop presentations/communications that achieve maximum impact and influence
• Ability to navigate at all levels in the organization and interact effectively and confidently with audiences of varying skill sets and authority.
• Proven strong leader that positively motivates others and successfully builds relationships.
• Collaborative, able to bring teams together and direct work to achieve goals
• Ability to manage issue resolution - including the identification of issues, developing a resolution plan, and executing the changes needed
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Strong understanding of the healthcare industry and compliance

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near office equipment (telephone, computer) and other employees. The employee works in normal office conditions where there is no physical discomfort due to temperature, dust, noise, etc. Verbal and written communication, telephone usage, filing, sitting, typing, driving, reading and carrying required to perform the essential functions of this job.