Principal Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Define and uphold Marathon Health’s enterprise architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, and design principles across cloud, data, integration, and application layers.

• Lead the solution design process across various product and engineering teams, ensuring compliance with architectural standards, scalability requirements, and healthcare regulations.

• Collaborate with Engineering leaders to assess architecture proposals, facilitate technical decisions across teams, address architectural trade-offs, and ensure designs meet established standards, scalability needs, and healthcare compliance obligations.

• Personally execute high-impact technical initiatives, such as reference implementations, complex cross-system integrations, and architecturally significant proofs-of-concept to validate strategic initiatives prior to large-scale commitments.

• Spearhead the modernization of legacy systems in collaboration with Technology and Product leadership, balancing the reduction of technical debt, delivery commitments, support burdens, operational risks, and team capacity.

• Oversee the architecture and governance of Marathon’s AI and machine learning capabilities, which includes agentic AI systems, LLM integrations, and clinical decision support tools.

• Manage the enterprise data architecture strategy, covering data modeling, lakehouse design, and governance frameworks on Snowflake and cloud-native platforms.

• Design and govern real-time and near-real-time integration architectures utilizing HL7 FHIR, event-driven patterns, API gateways, and messaging platforms.

• Act as a player-coach technical leader, engaging in technical planning, design reviews, implementation trade-offs, code and architecture reviews, proofs-of-concept, and reference implementations alongside Technology teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, accompanied by 10+ years of progressive experience in software or enterprise architecture, including at least 5 years in a senior or principal architect role, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven capability to function as both a strategic architect and a hands-on technical contributor, with a history of effective collaboration with technology leaders and delivery teams in complex environments.

• Demonstrated experience in healthcare technology, specifically involving health plan data, payer/provider integration, or population health platforms.

• Extensive expertise in data architecture on cloud-native platforms (Snowflake preferred), with experience in data lakehouse patterns, data modeling, and governance.

• Significant hands-on experience with real-time and event-driven integration architecture (Kafka, event streaming, API-first design, HL7 FHIR).

• Proven ability to lead and govern AI/ML architecture in production settings, including LLM-based systems, agentic workflows, and responsible AI frameworks.

• Experience in modernizing legacy systems at scale, encompassing both technical execution and organizational change management.

• Practical expertise across a modern engineering stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), cloud-native architecture patterns (microservices, serverless, event-driven systems), containers and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or GKE) or similar orchestrators, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), production-grade observability tools, and strong production proficiency in at least one of .NET, Python, or TypeScript, with working fluency in the others.

• Strong foundation in security, compliance, and regulatory architecture relevant to healthcare (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2).

• Experience working at an employer-sponsored or value-based care organization (e.g., advanced primary care, near-site/on-site health).

• Hands-on experience with Athena Health EHR, Salesforce Health Cloud, or comparable healthcare CRM/EHR ecosystems.

• Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex, dbt, or other modern data transformation and AI/analytics tools.

• Previous experience building or advising on health plan channel partnerships, including with Anthem, Aetna, Centivo, or similar commercial payers.

• Experience in a PE-backed, high-growth healthcare technology setting.

• Track record of contributing to AI strategy at an organizational level, including communication with board or executive leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• FREE Marathon Health services for you and your family, providing unlimited, free primary care, routine labs, select prescriptions, vaccinations, and virtual mental health care so our teammates can excel and help improve healthcare.

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits: Choose from 2 medical plans, 2 dental plans, and vision coverage, along with unlimited free mental health benefits and EAP resources, plus rewards for participating in challenges and healthy lifestyle activities.

• Family Friendly & Reproductive Health Benefits: Support for family-building and hormonal health, along with paid parental leave.

• Time-Based Benefits: Generous PTO or FTO, Paid Holidays, and an additional day for personal matters.

• Financial Support: Company-paid Basic Life and Disability insurance, Supplemental Life, Spending Accounts, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching and graded vesting.

• Continuing Medical Education (CME) opportunities to maintain and enhance the knowledge, skills, and expertise of our health center teammates, as applicable.