IT Principal Solutions Architect - Barrow

St. Joseph Hospital & Medical Center • Phoenix, AZ

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Principal Solutions Architect, you will serve as a technology visionary, responsible for supporting groundbreaking neuroscience-based clinical practice and research, by enabling advanced technological platforms. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role, where you will design and lead the architectural strategy for mission-critical initiatives and advanced neuro-technology capabilities, directly serving Barrow Neurological Institute's world-renowned clinicians, researchers, and educators. You will bridge software engineering excellence with a robust enterprise architecture discipline, to accelerate the modernization of Barrow's unique and complex technological ecosystem. This encompasses highly specialized requirements for:
Clinicians: Developing intuitive tools for enhanced patient care delivery, clinical decision support, secure data access, and streamlined workflows.
Researchers: Architecting advanced platforms for high-compute environments, complex data analysis, AI/ML model deployment, and collaboration that accelerate discovery.
Educators: Designing innovative solutions for simulation, virtual learning, curriculum delivery, and knowledge sharing that elevate neuro-education.
This role is not just about system architecture; it's about igniting innovation and transforming neuroscience through advanced technology. Acting as a thought-leader, chief architect, and technical mentor, you will work cross-functionally with neuro-clinical teams, research scientists, educators, data science professionals, and Barrow's dedicated IT infrastructure teams. Your goal will be to build scalable, secure, and intuitive digital and high-performance computing experiences that directly impact the discovery of new treatments, the delivery of cutting-edge patient care, and the education of future neuroscience leaders.
As a member of CommonSpirit Health, with focus on Barrow Neurological Institute, you will leverage your specialized and unique skill sets to work with other chief architects and technical leads within the broader CommonSpirit system, to architect and deploy innovative technologies across shared, scalable platforms. You will be an advocate for innovation, change, and clarity across both Barrow and CommonSpirit, supporting and motivating both local and system-wide teams. Assignments will include complex initiatives with direct clinical relevance, significant scientific scope, and deep organizational impact. You will be an experienced product engineering leader, championing software engineering best practices, while delivering technology products through modern cloud platforms, on-premise high-performance computing environments, and full-stack development frameworks. You will have the autonomy to make critical architectural decisions within Barrow's domain, directly influencing the selection, delivery, and adoption of the new technologies that will define the next generation of neurological care, research, and education.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in either Business Administration, Information Technology, Education, Management, or related fields, upon hire
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and/or application architecture.
• 10+ years of experience in a senior technical role, technical leadership role, or principal-level role.
• Demonstrated experience in healthcare IT, digital health platforms, or clinical systems integration required.
• Expert level understanding of cloud architecture (GCP, AWS, or Azure), APIs (REST, GraphQL, FHIR), mobile/web development and Artificial Intelligence.
• Expert level understanding in modern backend full-stack systems and frontend language/frameworks
• Advanced proficiency with modern API-led architecture, event-driven design, data driven services and healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, SMART on FHIR).
• Systems thinking and the ability to abstract and decompose complex problems.
• Demonstrated experience engaging, translating and influencing with both technical and non-technical executive level stakeholders; Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to align technical decisions to broader organizational strategy and goals.
• Deep experience working in Agile product environments and DevOps cultures.
• High emotional intelligence and cross-functional leadership ability in matrixed enterprise environments.
• A proven track record of driving innovation and delivering impactful results in a complex, enterprise environment.

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree
• Agile certifications

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex digital health platforms and clinical enablement solutions, focusing on scalability, security, and usability.
• Represent, own, and influence with expertise the Digital Solutions in architectural review boards and enterprise IT strategy forums.
• Align architecture with business goals, KPIs, and OKRs related to patient engagement, digital front door, care navigation, remote care enablement, and the centralized Care Base and Patient Connection Centers.
• Serve as a primary technical advisor and architecture SME to senior leadership, digital product teams, and clinical and business partners on key technology decisions, providing insights and recommendations based on deep understanding of the digital health landscape.
• Accountable for rationalizing and streamlining third party applications in the Consumer and Clinical enablement portfolio, keeping the technology foundation and consumer, patient and staff experience top of mind.
• Develop, launch, and scale an architecture board review, as the accountable leader for its technology success, streamlining and rationalizing the Consumer and Clinical Enablement technology stacks.
• Establish and advocate for architecture standards, patterns, and design principles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal