Senior Enterprise Architect - Remote Healthcare Solutions

About the Role

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Enterprise Architect remote to join our team at Perficient. This is a remote position, and candidates must reside in the continental United States, with travel estimated at up to 25%. As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will play a pivotal role in defining, governing, and evolving the end-to-end technology architecture for large-scale healthcare payer organizations.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive key areas of enterprise technology architecture, delivering end-to-end architectural direction for major initiatives.
• Develop and govern the enterprise-wide technology blueprint for healthcare payer organizations, ensuring alignment across clinical, operational, administrative, and data domains.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, reference models, guardrails, and best practices to guide transformation, modernization, and cloud adoption programs.
• Provide authoritative guidance on critical architectural decisions, trade-offs, patterns, and solution designs across multi-year programs.
• Ensure all solutions comply with healthcare regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, CMS, NCQA, state mandates) and align with industry trends such as interoperability, FHIR, value-based care, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Lead modernization of legacy core systems using cloud-native, API-driven, microservices-based, and AI-assisted architectures.
• Architect integration strategies for heterogeneous systems using event-driven patterns, microservices, APIs, and modern cloud-based services.
• Partner with business and IT executives, engineering teams, and PMOs to align technology decisions with strategic direction.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technical leadership roles.
• Deep experience across key payer functions including claims processing, eligibility/enrollment, benefits administration, provider systems, care management, and utilization management.
• Strong understanding of healthcare regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST, CMS, NCQA, and state-level mandates.
• Broad technical foundation across cloud, applications, data, and integration technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging AI technologies to drive innovation, support strategic initiatives, and enable data-driven decision-making.

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $92,118 to $202,730 annually.
• Flexible remote work arrangements.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation.
• Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools.

Join Perficient as a Senior Enterprise Architect remote and help us transform the healthcare landscape through innovative technology solutions. Apply now!