What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Application Architect position at Zelis?
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A Little About Us
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all by providing a connected platform that bridges the gaps and aligns interests across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. This platform serves more than 750 payers, including the top 5 national health plans, BCBS insurers, regional health plans, TPAs and self-insured employers, and millions of healthcare providers and consumers. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts—driving real, measurable results for clients.
A Little About You
You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.
Position Overview
A Little About Us
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all by providing a connected platform that bridges the gaps and aligns interests across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. This platform serves more than 750 payers, including the top 5 national health plans, BCBS insurers, regional health plans, TPAs and self-insured employers, and millions of healthcare providers and consumers. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts—driving real, measurable results for clients.
A Little About You
You are a dynamic and energetic leader who knows how to balance fun with a serious commitment to getting stuff done. You thrive in the fast-paced world of cutting-edge technology, you are eager to embrace new challenges, and experimenting with POCs is one of your favorite hobbies. Your decision-making skills are top-notch, but you also value collaboration and know that the best solutions come from working together. You are an expert of your craft, excited to share both your triumphs and lessons learned with the team. You are a mentor, a coach, and a cheerleader, fostering a positive and productive continuous learning environment. You bring a sense of humor to the table, create killer memes (perhaps by using the latest and greatest GenAI tool), and truly enjoy your job because technology is fun!
Position Overview
As the Principal Application Architect for Payments Technology, you will be a visionary leader who designs the future of our Payments Application Ecosystem, powering the growth of our rapidly growing $1 billion business. You will be responsible for setting the architectural vision and developing a multi-year strategy to drive engineering teams to execute on that vision. You will work in close collaboration with Product and Business leadership to align your modernization plans with business outcomes, balancing existing application maintenance with iterative and demonstrable progress on new development. You will have opportunities to dive into the design of our data and business logic layers but will primarily focus on crafting exceptional customer-facing solutions – shaping GraphQL APIs, designing micro apps and micro frontends, and architecting event-driven experiences that are fast, scalable, and intuitive.
What You’ll Do
Architect the Future
What You’ll Bring to Zelis
We have offices in Atlanta GA, Boston MA, Morristown NJ, Plano TX, St. Louis MO, St. Petersburg FL, and Hyderabad, India. We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture, and all our employee's work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership team. In-office work and activities, if applicable, vary based on the work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.
Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process, please email TalentAcquisition@zelis.com.
Disclaimer
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, duties, and skills from time to time.
A Little About Us
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all by providing a connected platform that bridges the gaps and aligns interests across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. This platform serves more than 750 payers, including the top 5 national health plans, BCBS insurers, regional health plans, TPAs and self-insured employers, and millions of healthcare providers and consumers. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts—driving real, measurable results for clients.
A Little About You
You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.
Position Overview
A Little About Us
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all by providing a connected platform that bridges the gaps and aligns interests across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. This platform serves more than 750 payers, including the top 5 national health plans, BCBS insurers, regional health plans, TPAs and self-insured employers, and millions of healthcare providers and consumers. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts—driving real, measurable results for clients.
A Little About You
You are a dynamic and energetic leader who knows how to balance fun with a serious commitment to getting stuff done. You thrive in the fast-paced world of cutting-edge technology, you are eager to embrace new challenges, and experimenting with POCs is one of your favorite hobbies. Your decision-making skills are top-notch, but you also value collaboration and know that the best solutions come from working together. You are an expert of your craft, excited to share both your triumphs and lessons learned with the team. You are a mentor, a coach, and a cheerleader, fostering a positive and productive continuous learning environment. You bring a sense of humor to the table, create killer memes (perhaps by using the latest and greatest GenAI tool), and truly enjoy your job because technology is fun!
Position Overview
As the Principal Application Architect for Payments Technology, you will be a visionary leader who designs the future of our Payments Application Ecosystem, powering the growth of our rapidly growing $1 billion business. You will be responsible for setting the architectural vision and developing a multi-year strategy to drive engineering teams to execute on that vision. You will work in close collaboration with Product and Business leadership to align your modernization plans with business outcomes, balancing existing application maintenance with iterative and demonstrable progress on new development. You will have opportunities to dive into the design of our data and business logic layers but will primarily focus on crafting exceptional customer-facing solutions – shaping GraphQL APIs, designing micro apps and micro frontends, and architecting event-driven experiences that are fast, scalable, and intuitive.
What You’ll Do
Architect the Future
- Design and architect modern, scalable application suites across distributed systems using cloud-native principles.
- Lead the development of micro frontends, modular applications, and service-based backends with technologies like GraphQL and event-driven architecture.
- Build reference architectures and patterns that make intelligent use of multi-cloud native services to drive performance, resilience, and scalability.
- Optimize system designs to balance cost, performance, security, and compliance.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies, lead POCs, and make forward-thinking recommendations that improve business agility and outcomes.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to drive consistent and successful project delivery.
- Collaborate with engineering leads and product managers to align solutions with business objectives and roadmaps.
- Lead initiatives to modernize legacy applications, introducing modern architectural patterns while ensuring smooth transitions.
- Evaluate existing applications to determine the most effective modernization approach: refactor, replatform, or rebuild.
- Ensure CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices are baked into every solution to support rapid, high-quality delivery.
- Lead the design and implementation of secure application architectures that align with modern security frameworks and best practices.
- Integrate IAM solutions using tools such as Okta, ensuring secure and seamless authentication and authorization flows.
- Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure all solutions meet regulatory requirements such as HIPPA and HITRUST.
- Define and evangelize architectural best practices, patterns, and technical standards across teams.
- Drive adoption of new technologies and guide teams through implementation with hands-on support.
- Establish metrics to measure technology adoption and ensure teams are executing on architectural vision.
- Conduct architectural reviews, deep technical assessments, and proof-of-concept efforts to de-risk delivery.
- Provide hands-on coaching to development teams on solution design, code quality, and cloud-native best practices.
- Build a pipeline of junior architects through mentorship and training and upskilling junior and mid-level engineers.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to scale knowledge across teams.
What You’ll Bring to Zelis
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrable working experience.
- 10 years of experience in application development, with at least 5 years in an Architect role.
- Deep experience architecting enterprise-grade applications in a multi-cloud environment, including:
- Modern frontend architectures optimized for scalability, resiliency, and deployability
- DevOps and CI/CD concepts
- Application-layer security principles and HIPPA/HITRUST auditability
- Transformation of legacy solutions into vertically integrated application stacks
- Event-driven and asynchronous architectures
- Possesses and continually enhances the following technical kills:
- AWS and Azure cloud-native services
- UX frameworks such as Blazor or React
- GraphQL, REST API, and BFF pattern design
- Modular architecture concepts; micro apps, micro frontends, reusable components in a design system
- Containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- CI/CD design using GitHub Actions and IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep)
- IAM tools like Okta, security and identity standards including OAuth2.0 and SAML
- Compliance and regulatory standards HIPPA and HITRUST
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams.
- Experience in healthcare and financial services or payments platform.
We have offices in Atlanta GA, Boston MA, Morristown NJ, Plano TX, St. Louis MO, St. Petersburg FL, and Hyderabad, India. We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture, and all our employee's work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership team. In-office work and activities, if applicable, vary based on the work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.
Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process, please email TalentAcquisition@zelis.com.
Disclaimer
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, duties, and skills from time to time.
