Senior Solutions Architect - Remote Canada
Senior Solutions Architect - Remote Canada
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21-08-2025
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Working for a company like Smile Digital Health means supporting our mandate for #BetterGlobalHealth. We strive towards this goal every day and the results can be seen in the impact of our innovative health data platform and data management solutions which are used in over 20 countries. We were #19 on Deloittes Technology Fast 50 Ranking for 2024!
Smile Digital Health makes it easy for healthcare stakeholders to collect and exchange data with our leading FHIR-based data liberation platform.
At its heart the Smile platform enables people and organizations to better manage healthcare data. We helpgenerate andliberate structured healthcare data to ensure effective delivery across care teams and health systems bringing #BetterGlobalHealth to patients everyday!
Apply today and find plenty of reasons to SMILE!
The Senior Solutions Architect Implementations is a hands-on customer-facing role responsible for designing scalable standards-aligned healthcare data solutions using Smile Digital Healths platform. Youll partner closely with enterprise clients during discovery and early design often when requirements are incomplete and help guide them toward the right architecture.
Success in this role requires more than technical knowledge. Its about the art of asking the right questions helping customers uncover what they dont know and shaping practical future-proof solutions based on Smile best practices regulatory frameworks and your past experience. Youll need to be curious quick to learn enthusiastic and committed to delivering the best outcome even in fast-moving or ambiguous situations.
This role goes beyond design. Youll maintain architectural oversight throughout the implementation and post-go-live phases ensuring the solution continues to work as expected adjusting designs as needed and supporting performance tuning edge cases and real-world constraints. Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams product engineering delivery and TAMs to turn vision into execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural design and solutioning during discovery and early implementation phases working directly with healthcare customers to surface unknowns ask the right questions and co-design scalable standards-aligned solutions.
- Provide ongoing architectural oversight and hands-on technical guidance (if needed) throughout the full implementation lifecycle and post-go-live ensuring the solution remains aligned with Smiles best practices technical standards and product capabilities.
- Evaluate customer-specific requirements and make technical recommendations around performance tuning ingestion workflows bundle design and terminology mapping.
- Collaborate regularly with internal teams including Product Engineering QA Agile Leads Solution Architects and Technical Account Managers to resolve architectural questions validate patterns and provide feedback that shapes future product improvements.
- Take ownership of evolving or refactoring designs when new constraints blockers or learnings emerge during delivery (e.g. scalability issues deployment friction real-time ingest gaps).
- Actively participate in customer-facing meetings design reviews retrospectives and change discussions; support technical communication during escalations and decision points.
- Contribute to Smiles internal architecture review boards design documentation reusable delivery assets and solution playbooks to help scale implementation excellence across teams.
- Stay current with Smiles product roadmap technical stack and regulatory mandates (e.g. CMS interoperability requirements); demonstrate curiosity and initiative in learning new tools and approaches.
- Accurately track time and ensure that billable hours and project management artifacts are logged in NetSuite on a daily or weekly basis in alignment with delivery operations standards.
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience in software engineering technical consulting or solution architecture roles ideally with hands-on experience supporting complex healthcare implementations.
- Proven ability to lead customer-facing architecture and design discussions especially with payer provider or government-aligned healthcare organizations.
- Demonstrated experience designing solutions involving real-time data ingestion technologies such as Kafka Camel Pulsar and implementing FHIR-based data workflows.
- Strong understanding of clinical data modeling and terminology mapping (e.g. SNOMED CT RxNorm LOINC) including their application across ingestion transformation and API exposure layers.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture and deployment in AWS Azure or GCP using Docker Helm and Kubernetes.
- Skilled in identifying technical trade-offs and adapting solution designs in response to new constraints or emerging information during delivery.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex designs for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams including product engineering QA and delivery.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced ambiguous environments with evolving requirements shifting priorities and in-flight blockers.
- Proficiency with solution diagramming and design tools such as Lucidchart (or equivalent) to communicate architectural decisions and data flows clearly.
Nice to Haves:
- Familiarity with U.S. healthcare regulations such as CMS interoperability mandates (e.g. 9115-F 0057-F) HIPAA and general data access governance.
- Prior experience with Smile CDR or other FHIR server platforms
- Knowledge of the Inferno test suite NIST validators or similar conformance tools
- TOGAF or equivalent architectural certification
Some of the benefits we offer:
* Remote Work Environment
* Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO Personal and Sick Days
* Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
* RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution
* Life and Disability
* Employee Assistance Program
* FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
* Super HAPI Fun Club
Smiles core values include respect inclusion embracing our differences and celebrating shared values because our people are the foundation of our success. We are big on creating a sense of belonging and empowering each other to bring our authentic selves to work. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity equity and inclusion.
We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Candidates are encouraged to inform us if they wish to discuss or require accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile.
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