Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Abacus Insights, a mission-driven healthcare technology company, as a Solution Architect. You will collaborate with customers and internal teams to design scalable cloud architectures, solving business problems and accelerating the adoption of Abacus's data management platform. This role involves defining solution architecture visions, authoring design documents, providing training and support, and working closely with cross-functional teams. You will leverage your expertise in healthcare data and systems, particularly Medicaid, to translate business needs into technology solutions. The position requires strong communication and collaboration skills, along with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and cloud technologies. Abacus offers a flexible and innovative work environment.

Requirements

• Understanding and passion for healthcare data and systems – including payer, provider, and integration partners
• Strong working knowledge of US healthcare data, with a strong focus on Medicaid, including but not limited to Medical Claims, Pharmacy Claims, Eligibility, Plan, Enrollment, Clinical, and Provider
• Domain expertise in Medicaid data sets, specifically T-MSIS (Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System) and how it is used by Medicaid plans
• Ability to define the solution architecture vision in architecture design documents
• Broad and general technical knowledge as well as competencies in infrastructure, data models, service orientation, programming, frameworks, standards, and technical modeling
• Strong understanding of healthcare industry trends, regulations, and customer needs
• Experience translating business needs into technology solutions that enable delivery of the Abacus platform
• Strong communicator who can leverage their domain and technical expertise effectively with the client and build working relationships with internal and external team members
• Ability to communicate succinctly and clearly, both verbally and written, across technical and non-technical audiences at multiple levels, including business leaders
• Experience working in the payer / insurance data space and understanding of the historical data architecture needs of our clients
• Understanding of client services or experience working for a cloud-based data management provider to large clients
• Understanding of technology and database technology landscape and desire to engage with vendor partners to support both external and internal goals

Responsibilities

• Work across business and IT teams to understand the current business and system capabilities and determine the desired state to define the overall technology strategy roadmap
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business experts, technical business analysts, project managers, account executives and data engineers to successfully implement client projects which reduce technology costs and solution redundancy
• Collaborate with Product Management to identify client-specific requirements that may translate into an existing standard product feature or a future feature on the Abacus product roadmap
• Define the solution architecture visions for designated components that describe the long-term goals as well as near-term needs of the client
• Author the project architecture design documents, including data flows, sequence diagrams and overall system architecture, that will drive the technical implementation of the solutions
• Provide training to internal teams on business needs and use cases for seamless client implementation
• Provide ongoing support to address questions and issues raised by the implementation team

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, Databricks and Snowflake
• Previous payer operational experience