Solutions Architect

Avalon Administrative Services LLC • Tampa, FL

14d • Remote

About The Position

The Solutions Architect provides hands-on technical leadership for enterprise architecture across Avalon, connecting applications, data, integrations, and shared platforms across business functions and product lines. The role translates business strategy into architectural direction and modernization roadmaps for the organization.

Drawing on deep software engineering experience and leadership across teams, the Solutions Architect guides principal engineers and agile teams, aligns decisions with engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure partners, and validates solutions through prototypes. The role also designs and tests agentic AI orchestration and develops reusable patterns for secure, reliable adoption.

The position is eligible for remote work, with quarterly travel required to Avalon’s corporate offices in Tampa, Florida.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of relevant experience in information systems development, maintenance, implementation, and support; healthcare or managed care experience is preferred.
• Deep hands-on software engineering experience, including proficiency in a programming language, complex integrations, technical troubleshooting, and building working proofs of concept.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, including AWS, APIs, event-driven systems, containers, orchestration, relational and non-relational data platforms, and application dependencies; sound judgment in evaluating security and operational requirements.
• Hands-on experience building and orchestrating single-agent and multi-agent AI solutions using frameworks, tool/function calling, enterprise integrations such as MCP, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context engineering, and agent evaluation and guardrails.
• Demonstrated progression from team-level technical delivery to leadership across teams and enterprise architecture; ability to model system interactions and translate business priorities into practical technology decisions.
• Ability to influence decisions across organizational boundaries, mentor technical leaders, and clearly explain architectural tradeoffs to engineering teams and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare or health plan operations, including secure handling of sensitive healthcare data.
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability, including X12 837, 835, 834, 276/277, and 270/271; HL7 FHIR; and clinical, laboratory, and electronic medical record integrations.
• Experience delivering shared enterprise platforms and applying DevOps, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
• Master’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Guide Avalon’s enterprise architecture and information systems strategy in line with business goals and health plan operations; maintain current and target architecture views covering application dependencies, data flows, integrations, and shared platforms.
• Develop modernization roadmaps with engineering, product, security, data, and infrastructure teams; sequence dependencies and address technical debt and transition risks across business functions.
• Define enterprise standards, reference architectures, and reusable capabilities for cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven integration, and data exchange.
• Guide principal engineers and delivery teams through design tradeoffs involving cost, scalability, security, reliability, observability, and maintainability; validate critical assumptions through hands-on prototypes and pilots.
• Design and build agentic AI proofs of concept, including agent orchestration and integration with enterprise tools, data, and services; evaluate usefulness, accuracy, failure handling, access controls, and human oversight before recommending broader adoption.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor solutions for enterprise fit, integration, performance, compliance, and risk; support technical RFPs, vendor reassessment, and transfer of successful pilots into delivery.
• Facilitate weekly architecture review board sessions, resolve cross-system design questions, and document decisions, tradeoffs, and follow-up actions.
• Mentor principal engineers and tech leads, translating enterprise direction into implementable guidance and building alignment through technical credibility and influence.
• Communicate architecture strategy and system capabilities to business and technical audiences; support client and marketing presentations and demonstrations as required.

What This Job Offers

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