PointClickCare is hiring a
Senior Software Architect

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Architect at PointClickCare, a North American healthcare technology company. The role involves collaborating with teams to translate complex business requirements into robust software solutions, driving technical feasibility analysis, leading engineering teams, and aligning the software architecture with the overall organization's technology strategy.

Requirements

• You can relate your solid experience in designing large scale, web-based software products and collaborating with a team to support their development and deployment
• You have experience developing and deploying complex systems in Azure or another public cloud provider
• You are deeply familiar with many elements of our technology stack, which includes Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Avro, JavaScript, MySQL, and Gradle
• You have prior experience with high-throughput healthcare information systems using HL7 or FHIR, or analogous integrations in other domains
• You successfully manage system complexity through modularization and specification of maintainable boundaries between components
• You demonstrate exceptional analytical, planning, and diagnostic abilities
• You use active listening skills and clear communication in speaking, writing, and diagramming
• Your interpersonal skills allow you to build consensus and promote understanding and adoption of architectural strategy
• You recognize and apply object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and architectural patterns
• You couple new research and data with your experience and intuition to find answers that are innovative yet pragmatic

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex and ambiguous business requirements into robust solution designs
• Assess the technical feasibility of new projects and help engineering teams solve their most difficult technical challenges
• Understand and contribute to the long-term system architecture strategy and teach others about it
• Design for non-functional requirements including maintainability, efficiency, scalability, observability, availability, and security
• Estimate resources required for a proposed design and optimize plans for cost, performance, or other attributes
• Help to review design proposals from others
• Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures
• Research new software, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations and proofs of concept
• Define best practices, patterns, and guidelines in coding and system design
• Review designs and code to ensure its compliance with best practices and coding standards
• Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and consultation to other architects and engineering teams to ensure the successful execution of software projects
• Analyze legacy code and plan for enhancements to maintainability and other non-functional requirements

Benefits

• $162,000 - $181,000 a year + bonus + benefits
• At PointClickCare, base salary is one of the many components that make up our total rewards package