Solutions Architect

Zelis • St. Petersburg, FL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Zelis, we Get Stuff Done. Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients. At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture. Zelis Payments is hiring two Solution Architects to be embedded directly within the Commercial Growth & Partnerships organization. This is not a traditional engineering seat. These roles sit at the intersection of commercial strategy and technical execution — working alongside the teams responsible for identifying, prototyping, and scaling new growth opportunities across Zelis' payments business. The Commercial Growth team focuses on opportunities that need to be built, tested, and then transferred to scale if successful. That work — proof of concepts, partner integrations, fast-follow builds, and technical discovery for larger platform initiatives — moves at commercial speed. These Solution Architects give it dedicated engineering capacity without displacing the shared resources that run and service the core business. If you are an engineer who wants to be close to the business, build things that have direct commercial impact, and grow into a deeply fungible technical resource — this role was designed for you.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on payments, fintech, or healthcare technology.
• Payments orchestration build experience — demonstrated hands-on work with ACH, real-time rails, card payment processing, or payment file architecture.
• API-based integration fluency — REST and event-driven architectures, with experience designing both synchronous and asynchronous data flows.
• File-based integration experience — EDI, healthcare transaction files (837/835), or equivalent healthcare and payments file formats.
• Comfort with funds flow design concepts: subaccount structures, ledger-based accounting, and payment reconciliation.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment where compliance, security, and audit trails are non-negotiable.
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services in a high-volume transactional environment.
• Onshore, US-based.
• This role requires real-time collaboration with commercial, product, and technology leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with ACH operating rules, PCI standards, or HIPAA is a plus.
• Background in healthcare payments or financial technology — understanding of how payers, providers, and payment intermediaries interact is a meaningful advantage.
• Experience contributing to or reviewing architecture decisions in cross-functional teams.
• Comfort working in ambiguity — these roles operate at the front edge of commercial development where requirements evolve quickly.
• Strong written communication — you will produce documentation, requirements, and technical summaries that business and technology stakeholders both read.
• Experience leveraging advanced AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate delivery while keeping human judgment in control.
• Startup or high-growth environment experience — comfortable with a fast-feedback, high-ownership work model.
• Track record of influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority — able to drive alignment through practical, hands-on guidance.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the commercial team to rapidly prototype and validate new product and integration concepts.
• Translate business and partner conversations into working technical demonstrations that can be reviewed, approved, and handed to scale engineering.
• Build PoC integrations with strategic partners across provider network, clearinghouse, and patient financial engagement use cases — translating partner requirements into working technical demonstrations.
• Develop lightweight prototypes for new payment and financial product concepts including flexible and intuitive billing capabilities — fast enough to test the idea, clean enough to hand off to scale engineering.
• Participate in partner and client conversations where your technical perspective shapes the direction of the build.
• Design and build integration enhancements that directly unlock commercial growth.
• Build network redundancy and meet escalating volume commitments with card network and banking partners.
• Build API and file-based data exchange integrations with EHR platforms, practice management systems, and clearinghouse partners — expanding Zelis' addressable partner market and reducing onboarding friction.
• Automate integration layers where manual touchpoints limit scale.
• Help ready commercial growth initiatives for scaling within complex platforms — ensuring build requirements are sharper, architecture decisions are pre-socialized, and the path to formal engineering delivery is shorter.
• Design the full funds flow from capital facility through settlement and repayment, including bank integrations, payment workflows, ledgering, and leveraging sub-accounts and wallets.
• Integration and commercial feature development for a flexible and intuitive billing system alongside the product team.
• Work directly with product leadership and solution architects to define requirements, validate architectural decisions, and produce the documentation that enables formal engineering intake.
• Ensure your output from discovery directly shortens the path to production.

Benefits

• Modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers.
• Serving more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions.
• AI is woven into the fabric of how we work.
• Opportunity to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify impact.
• A place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry.
• Embedded directly within the Commercial Growth & Partnerships organization.
• Work at the intersection of commercial strategy and technical execution.
• Opportunity to identify, prototype, and scale new growth opportunities.
• Dedicated engineering capacity without displacing shared resources.
• Opportunity to be close to the business and build things with direct commercial impact.
• Grow into a deeply fungible technical resource.
• Opportunity to work on proof of concepts, partner integrations, fast-follow builds, and technical discovery.
• Work at commercial speed.
• Opportunity to shape the direction of the build in partner and client conversations.
• Opportunity to design and build integration enhancements that directly unlock commercial growth.
• Opportunity to automate integration layers.
• Opportunity to help ready commercial growth initiatives for scaling within complex platforms.
• Opportunity to work directly with product leadership and solution architects.
• Opportunity to shorten the path to production.
• Transparent, fee-free recruitment process.
• Genuine offers originate from the Talent Acquisition team using the “@zelis.com” domain.
• Equal opportunity employer.
• Welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
• Encouragement to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications.
• Commitment to building an inclusive workplace for all.
• Dedicated to ensuring the application process is accessible to all candidates.

What This Job Offers

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