Solutions Architect

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

📋 Description

• Lead the strategic direction for Avalon’s enterprise architecture and information systems.

• Maintain comprehensive current and target architecture views that encompass application dependencies, data flows, integrations, and shared platforms.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure teams to create modernization roadmaps.

• Sequence dependencies while addressing technical debt and transition risks across various business functions.

• Establish enterprise standards, reference architectures, and reusable capabilities for cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven integration, and data exchange.

• Assist principal engineers and delivery teams in evaluating design tradeoffs concerning cost, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and maintainability.

• Confirm critical assumptions through the development of hands-on prototypes and pilot projects.

• Design and construct agentic AI proofs of concept, including agent orchestration and integration with enterprise tools, data, and services.

• Assess the usefulness, accuracy, failure handling, access controls, and human oversight of AI solutions.

• Review emerging technologies and vendor solutions for suitability, integration, performance, compliance, and risk.

• Aid in technical RFPs, vendor reassessment, and the transition of successful pilots into operational delivery.

• Facilitate weekly architecture review board meetings.

• Address cross-system design inquiries and document decisions, tradeoffs, and follow-up actions.

• Mentor principal engineers and technical leads.

• Articulate the architecture strategy and system capabilities to both business and technical audiences.

• Assist in client and marketing presentations and demonstrations as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 12 years of experience in information systems development, maintenance, implementation, and support.

• A Master's or advanced degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems is preferred.

• Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language.

• Experience with complex integrations, technical troubleshooting, and developing working proofs of concept.

• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, AWS, APIs, event-driven systems, containers, orchestration, and both relational and non-relational data platforms.

• Experience in building and orchestrating both single-agent and multi-agent AI solutions.

• Familiarity with AI frameworks, tool/function calling, enterprise integrations such as MCP, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context engineering, agent evaluation, and guardrails.

• Proven career progression from team-level technical delivery to leadership roles across teams and enterprise architecture.

• Capability to model system interactions and translate business priorities into actionable technology decisions.

• Ability to influence decisions across organizational lines and mentor technical leaders.

• Skilled in clearly explaining architectural tradeoffs to engineering teams and business stakeholders.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare or health plan operations.

• Preferred: knowledge of X12 837, 835, 834, 276/277, 270/271, HL7 FHIR, and clinical, laboratory, and electronic medical record integrations.

• Preferred: experience delivering shared enterprise platforms and applying DevOps, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Quarterly travel to Avalon’s corporate offices located in Tampa, Florida.

• Equal Opportunity Employer – Veteran/Disability.