CTH - Lead Solutions Architect

Perficient • Boston, MA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We currently have a career opportunity for a hands-on Lead Solutions Architect to join our team located in Boston, MA. This is a contract-to-hire, with our client, and is a hybrid role, with the requirement of being onsite 3 days a week. Beyond traditional software architecture, you will be expected to drive AI adoption by actively integrating GenAI tools and capabilities across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from AI-assisted coding and automated test generation to AI-enhanced architecture design. You must bridge business strategy with deep technical execution, writing code, conducting reviews, and collaborating directly with product managers, business executives, software engineers, and QA. Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

Requirements

• Proven architectural experience within the Healthcare Payer domain (claims, member management, benefits, provider networks, or digital front door).
• Hands-on experience architecting and deploying resilient, scalable enterprise applications on AWS or GCP (cloud-native microservices, serverless, managed databases, containerization via ECS/EKS/GKE).
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Claude/Gemini APIs) to optimize software development, code refactoring, testing, and developer productivity.
• Deep, hands-on architectural and development mastery in Java and Spring Boot microservices ecosystems.
• Strong, hands-on experience building production apps using React Native and/or Angular for web and mobile platforms.
• Proven track record of architecting public facing marketing sites, authenticated secure portals, and native/cross platform mobile apps.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution.
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced platforms is a plus.
• A solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations including ethical considerations is expected.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with GenAI architectures (RAG, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering) applied to healthcare search or member self-service.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, EDI 837/834).
• Deep understanding of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, and secure session management for cloud-hosted healthcare applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD pipelines integrating automated AI quality gates.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native architectures on AWS or GCP across mobile, front-end web, API layers, microservices, and healthcare integration systems.
• Champion and integrate Generative AI capabilities throughout the development lifecycle (e.g., AI assisted coding, automated code reviews, dynamic documentation, AI generated unit/integration tests, and synthetic healthcare data generation).
• Maintain high daily code level involvement across front end (React Native / Angular) and back-end (Java Spring Boot) stacks.
• Translate complex cloud and AI concepts into strategic value for executive business partners, while diving into low-level technical specifics with developers and QA.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmaps, break down business requirements into technical blueprints, and align QA teams on cloud-native test architecture.
• Ensure all cloud and digital solutions strictly comply with healthcare regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST) and secure identity management across public and behind-login environments.
• Experience providing T shirt estimates, low level estimates, representing the estimates and architecture in review boards, ability to justify the estimates to sponsors and executive leaders.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
• Compliance with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed