Job Details

Solutions Architect I / II

Hybrid role (3 days in office per week) in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah.

Job Overview

As a member of the IT Architecture team, Solutions Architects provide authoritative advice to business executives and IT on how to best solve tough business and technical problems. You'll focus on designing and evolving health‑care solutions that support clinical workflows, including care management, utilization management, appeals, and member and provider engagement. You'll provide guidance on system architecture across web, mobile, integration, and data platforms to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with clinical and operational needs.

Qualifications

• Solutions Architect I
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • Seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience.
  • At least three years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing end‑to‑end solutions in complex environments.
  • Strong understanding of health insurance and health‑care operations, including care management, utilization management, appeals, and related services.
  • Experience designing solutions that integrate multiple internal systems and external vendor platforms commonly used in healthcare.
  • Familiarity with API‑based and integration‑driven architectures, authentication and authorization systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO), and HIPAA‑compliant solution design.
  • Experience supporting applications and workflows used by members, providers, and care teams is a plus, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Solutions Architect II
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • Seven years of IT experience, including a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience.
  • At least five years of experience evaluating business requirements and designing complex, enterprise‑scale solutions.
  • Deep domain understanding of health insurance and health‑care service delivery, including care management, utilization management, appeals, clinical programs, and regulatory requirements.
  • Expected to lead architecture across complex healthcare ecosystems that include core enterprise platforms, vendor solutions, and integration layers.
  • Preferred experience in healthcare interoperability and data exchange patterns, API‑driven architectures, security and privacy controls, and HIPAA‑compliant solution design.
  • Experience designing solutions used by care teams, clinicians, operational staff, and external partners is strongly desired.

Skills and Attributes

• Experience designing solutions that support health insurance operations or health services domains such as care management, utilization management, appeals, or clinical programs.
• Familiarity with healthcare data exchange and integration patterns, including FHIR, HL7, X12/EDI, or equivalent interoperability approaches.
• Experience working with vendor platforms and complex integration ecosystems common in healthcare API design and management for mobile and web consumption.
• Experience designing solutions in AWS.
• Comfortable writing SQL and performing data analysis.
• Comfortable creating prototype/POC solutions.
• Experience with business process management (BPM) and business rules engines (BRE).
• Designing a variety of solutions—data pipelines, user interfaces, microservices, business process orchestrations.
• Demonstrated understanding of complex systems integration issues involving many disparate data sources and resolving them through clear direction on solution scope.
• Quickly and efficiently solve highly complex large‑scale or systems‑level problems using team resources.
• Writing code to solve a broad range of problems with varying complexity.
• Working with business in their language to support and promote concepts.
• High levels of personal output and ability to increase the productivity of the architecture function.
• Interpersonal savvy, relates well to all kinds of people, establishes trust, and builds constructive relationships.
• Good decision quality, makes sound decisions based on analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment.
• Leadership skills for large projects, emphasizing communicative and interpersonal relationship skills.
• Excellent negotiation skills with both internal and external groups, including ability to settle differences with diplomacy and tact, influence without direct authority.
• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision‑making (highly desired).

What You Will Do at Cambia

• Design scalable, secure architecture for member authentication and authorization systems.
• Lead technical strategy for clinical integrations and various internal clinical applications.
• Establish performance benchmarks and monitoring strategies for applications.
• Engage in business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archive and recovery strategy, and security.
• Provide overall technical leadership to multiple business teams.
• Apply reference architectures and patterns to the architecture and design of technology solutions and services.
• Document all solutions within the EA Modeling Environment.
• Participate actively in the review and governance of architecture quality.
• Receive general feedback from management, customers, or other external sources and translate that feedback into an overall technical direction.
• Mentor developers in the definition of technology implementation strategies and provide assistance to transition technology to the delivery organization.

Compensation

Solutions Architect I: $114K – $143K per year; bonus target 15%; full salary range $114K – $186K per year.

Solutions Architect II: $140K – $175K per year; bonus target 20%; full salary range $140K – $228K per year.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
• Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
• Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure and 10 company‑paid holidays.
• Market‑leading retirement plan with a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period).
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
• Award‑winning wellness programs that reward participation.
• Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
• Commute and parking benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We are an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to a drug and tobacco‑free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. A background check is required. If you need accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please email CambiaCareers@cambiahealth.com. Information about how Cambia Health Solutions collects, uses, and discloses information is available in our Privacy Policy.