Architecture Director

Define and champion technology architecture strategy in partnership with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT objectives. Act as a thought leader in identifying emerging technologies and innovative approaches that drive competitive advantage and organizational transformation. Collaborate with executive leadership to establish architecture principles, standards, and governance frameworks to guide IT initiatives. Lead the design and development of enterprise-wide architecture, ensuring solutions are functional, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. Solve the most complex architectural challenges, including those in troubled projects or critical domains, delivering outcomes that are on time and on budget. Develop reusable architectural patterns and frameworks to accelerate delivery and improve consistency across the organization. Ensure architectural designs meet current and future business needs while optimizing technical performance. Drive innovation by evaluating and implementing advanced technologies such as cloud-native architecture, AI, machine learning, and data analytics platforms. Establish proactive monitoring and synthetic testing practices to ensure system reliability and performance. Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve operational efficiency through modern architecture practices. Partner with cross-functional teams, including solution architects, engineering, and business stakeholders, to deliver high-impact solutions. Act as a mentor and advisor to architects and technical leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence. Represent CareSource in architecture-related discussions with external vendors and partners, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Ensure architectural designs adhere to regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, FISMA, and other applicable standards. Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed robust security and privacy practices into all architectural designs. Co-lead with Enterprise Architecture, all architecture review boards and enablement committees to drive governance and strategic alignment across IT initiatives.

Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, related field, or foreign degree equivalent.

Experience Requirements: Ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience as a Software Developer, Application Architect, Software Engineer, Solution Architect, or related occupation, working on application performance improvement and software architecture design. At least 5 of these years must include Leveraging Angular, Spring, Mongo, and Kafka to collaborate with high level executives on complex enterprise problems to find architecture solutions.

Travel: Candidate may work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

Compensation Range:

CareSource takes into consideration a combination of a candidate’s education, training, and experience as well as the position’s scope and complexity, the discretion and latitude required for the role, and other external and internal data when establishing a salary level. In addition to base compensation, you may qualify for a bonus tied to company and individual performance. We are highly invested in every employee’s total well-being and offer a substantial and comprehensive total rewards package.

Compensation Type (hourly/salary):

Organization Level Competencies

• Fostering a Collaborative Workplace Culture

• Cultivate Partnerships

• Develop Self and Others

• Drive Execution

• Influence Others

• Pursue Personal Excellence

• Understand the Business

This job description is not all inclusive. CareSource reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. CareSource is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to fostering an environment of belonging that welcomes and supports individuals of all backgrounds.