Enterprise Archietect Software Engineer in Plantation, Florida at Pediatric Associates

PRIMARY FUNCTION The Enterprise Archietect Software Engineer defines the software architecture of PAFC’s unified platform. The role sets technical direction, establishes architectural standards, and drives cross-team alignment by leading design reviews, surfacing trade-offs, and ensuring solutions advance PAFC’s priorities for Access, Quality, Cost, and Experience. Scope spans application and integration architecture, data flows, security alignment, and Azure-native cloud patterns.
Partnering closely with engineering, security, operations, data, and product teams, the Architect translates business objectives into executable architectural roadmaps. Through disciplined design forums, clear artifacts, and pragmatic guidance, the role ensures the platform evolves cohesively, scales responsibly, and remains aligned with PAFC’s strategic pillars.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This list may not include all of the duties that may be assigned.
• Define and govern reference architectures, API contracts, and integration patterns across the PAFC platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and reference implementations that teams can adopt, extend, and evolve.
• Lead architectural decisions through structured design reviews and working sessions, incorporating perspectives from engineering, product, security, data, and operations.
• Facilitate alignment on system-level trade-offs including performance, reliability, scalability, cost, and delivery velocity, with clear documentation of rationale and implications.
• Shape and guide platform modernization initiatives, including legacy reduction, vendor consolidation, and migration to PAFC-owned capabilities.
• Champion API-first and event-driven designs to improve interoperability across EMR systems, data platforms, contact center technologies, and patient and parent-facing experiences.
• Embed secure-by-design and Zero-Trust principles into architectural patterns.
• Ensure architectural designs incorporate appropriate identity, access controls, encryption, logging, resiliency, and disaster-recovery strategies.
• Create clear architectural artifacts, including diagrams, briefs, and decision records, and coach teams through design spikes and proofs of concept.
• Proactively identify architectural risks, dependencies, and long-term implications, and recommend practical mitigation paths early in the delivery lifecycle.

EDUCATION Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. A strong portfolio of experience may be considered in place of formal education.
EXPERIENCE 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep responsibility for application, integration, and platform architecture in complex, regulated environments. Experience leading or supporting EHR modernization, migration, or optimization initiatives, including exposure to population health and data unification preferred.
LICENSE / CERTIFICATION Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is preferred
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• Demonstrated success designing and governing distributed systems in production, including API-driven and event-based architectures, with clear outcomes in reliability, scalability, cost control, or delivery velocity.
• Strong healthcare domain experience, including EHR/EPM ecosystems and integrations across eligibility, referrals, prior authorization, and contact center operations.
• Extensive cloud architecture experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable), including API gateways, messaging/streaming platforms, identity services, and hybrid integration patterns.
• Proven architectural leadership across the SDLC, including design reviews, ADRs, trunk-based development alignment, test automation strategies, infrastructure as code, and operational readiness.
• Solid grounding in security and privacy-by-design principles.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority and drive alignment across engineering, product, security, data, and operations.
• Familiarity with contact center architectures (CCaaS, conversational AI) and healthcare document automation patterns, including fax/RPA modernization and API-based alternatives.

TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS
• Non-patient facing
• May be either full time remote/telework or rotate working in the office and remote/telework
• If remote, this job must be U.S. based
• Indoor work; professional office environment
• Operating computer
• Reach outward

OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
• Vision
• Sense of sound
• Sense of touch
PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
Adhere to all organizational information security policies and protect all sensitive information including but not limited to ePHI and PHI (Protected Health Information) in accordance with organizational policy, Federal, State, and local regulations.
The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature of level of the job