Solutions Architect

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Summary

In this role, you will serve as a Solutions Architect within Vizient's Platform Engineering organization, designing and delivering scalable, secure, and reusable solutions that support enterprise platforms, applications, and data services. You will partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security, and IT teams to ensure solutions are well-architected, aligned with enterprise strategy, and built using modern cloud-native and AI-enabled patterns. This role blends strong systems design expertise with hands-on technical depth, enabling you to influence architecture standards while guiding teams through complex, end-to-end solution designs.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution and reference architectures spanning applications, APIs, integrations, data platforms, identity, and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, CloudOps, Security, and IT teams to embed security and reliability into development workflows and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams to guide the design and implementation of secure, reusable components and shared services.
• Develop proofs of concept (POCs), automation scripts, tools, and reference implementations across application, data, security, AI, and integration use cases.
• Participate in or lead architecture and design sessions with engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Simplify complex technical concepts and communicate them clearly to influence direction and gain stakeholder buy-in.
• Architect solutions that meet non-functional requirements including security, reliability, scalability, performance, and compliance.
• Drive the long-term technical evolution of systems in alignment with organizational and technology strategy.
• Act as a collaborative team member, mentor, and continuous learner while fostering strong cross-functional relationships.
• Ensure solution designs comply with enterprise policies, standards, and directives established by the CISO organization and Data Governance.

Qualifications

• High School diploma required; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred (Master's degree preferred).
• 7 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in software architecture or systems design roles.
• Strong diagramming, presentation, and technical communication skills.
• Ability to write code and scripts (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell); prior hands-on software development experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud services, including networking and security capabilities.
• Fluency in networking concepts, Linux tools and scripting, IAM, OIDC, FGA, and modern security protocols.
• Hands-on experience with data modeling, data engineering, APIs, AI integration patterns, event-driven systems, middleware, and front-end architectures.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale, cloud-native, enterprise-grade systems.
• Knowledge of industry standards and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA and SOC 2.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Exposure to emerging AI-related architecture and security considerations, including RAG, MCP, and agent-based patterns.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Cloud Solution Architect, CISSP, or equivalent) preferred.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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