Senior Solution Architects / Enterprise Architects / Technical Architects

Summary: Senior Solution Architects / Enterprise Architects / Technical Architects are sought for remote positions, requiring extensive experience in the healthcare domain. Candidates should possess 8-15 years of relevant experience and demonstrate strong technical leadership and communication skills. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, guiding project teams, and championing the adoption of emerging technologies. Successful candidates will provide architectural guidance and ensure alignment with business strategies throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and define long-term technology roadmaps and architectural vision.
• Act as a trusted advisor by translating complex business requirements into clear technical solutions.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, including both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Guide project teams to ensure alignment with KP architectural standards and best practices.
• Conduct design reviews and ensure technical artifacts are sound and high-quality.
• Identify technical risks throughout the project lifecycle and communicate potential impacts proactively.
• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies including Digital, AI, and Cloud to drive business innovation and enhanced capabilities.
• Support definition of solution and functional requirements to ensure workstreams have clarity across all stages of delivery.
• Participate in business requirements definition and solution impact analysis.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to support business strategy.
• Break down business requirements into features, scalable components, and user stories.
• Maintain traceability between requirements and solution components, including management of Jira stories.
• Develop logical solution design artifacts such as diagrams and logical solution design document at the initiative level.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., PI planning, syncs, solution demos).
• Communicate functional/non-functional requirements and solution designs across workstreams to ensure alignment and clarity of enhancements required.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to resolve integration issues.
• Collaborate with IT Design Leads across value streams to maintain consistency and alignment of solution.
• Provide input on testing strategy and review test cases as needed.
• Support consolidation of design documentation into initiative-level architecture artifacts (e.g., Solution Architecture Description document).
• Escalate risks, blockers, or design conflicts to IT Design Principal and IT leadership when necessary.

Key Skills:

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders.
• Strong technical expertise across current platforms and technologies.
• Proven experience working with business teams to define and deliver solutions.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in solution architecture within business or functional projects.
• Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and methodologies (Nice to have).
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile, DevOps, and industry best practices.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in healthcare, with a strong preference for candidates who have worked with Kaiser.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Lucid, and Confluence.

Salary (Rate): £45

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT