Principal Architect

Job Title: Principal Architect
Location: US (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time

About Altera

Altera, a member of the N. Harris Computer Corporation family, delivers health IT solutions that support caregivers around the world. These include the Sunrise™, Paragon Daneli, TouchWorks EHR, Altera Opal, Ventus, HealthQuest™ and dbMotion™ solutions. At the intersection of technology and the human experience, Altera Digital Health is driving a new era of healthcare, in which innovation and expertise can elevate care delivery and inspire healthier communities across the globe. A new age in healthcare technology has just begun.

Position Summary

As a Principal Architect at Altera, you will provide the highest caliber of technical leadership, owning the definition of architectural approaches across our software solutions to meet strategic company and customer goals. This pivotal role demands an expert who can direct development organizations, champion best practices, and mentor a team of architects and developers, ensuring the delivery of innovative, high-quality, and scalable healthcare technology solutions. An ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with deep technical acumen and a passion for driving architectural excellence and fostering team growth.

Key Responsibilities

- Architectural Vision & Strategy: Direct development organizations in the appropriate selection and use of technical frameworks, platforms, and design patterns. Provide guidance on best practices and tool usage in the design and build of technical frameworks and applications.
- Solution Design & Integrity: Propose robust technical solutions, ensuring their integrity, and that they can be built, implemented, and maintained within timelines and budgets. Act as the technical design authority, driving benchmarking, installation, upgrade, configuration, deployment, and testing activities for complex technical areas.
- Quality & Stability Assurance: Identify innovative approaches to improve software quality and ensure development teams operate in a stable, productive environment with minimal rework due to architectural changes or evolving products.
- Industry Expertise & Innovation: Stay abreast of industry changes in technology standards, information management, development standards, methods, and emerging 3rd party software to advise on technology and leverage best practices in the design and construction of Altera software products.
- Architectural Governance: Perform detailed technical reviews to ensure adherence to the overall architectural philosophy. Define and enforce procedures and checkpoints to monitor architectural compliance.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Assist Project Management in planning technical aspects, provide regular updates on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies. Evangelize the Architecture and Design of Altera software products to customers, effectively articulating and presenting the benefits and technical advantages of Altera solutions to technical and non-technical customers and internal staff. Contribute to proposals, RFIs, and RFPs, and provide high-level estimates for proposed solutions.
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Support and mentor individual developers and architects. Identify and recruit internal/external talent, induct new joiners, set and communicate team/individual objectives and KPIs, allocate workload, implement development plans, coach individuals, provide constructive feedback, recognize high performers, and foster team spirit.

Role Requirements

- Total Years of Experience: 10+ years of relevant work experience.
- Relevant Technical Experience: 2-3 years at an Expert level or equivalent experience in a relevant technical domain.5+ years of practical experience designing and building enterprise or distributed software systems.
- Mandatory Skills: Demonstrated expertise in technical leadership and ownership of architectural definition for complex software solutions. Profound knowledge and hands-on experience with technical frameworks, platforms, and design patterns. Strong background in architecture and design principles, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and robust. Proven ability to act as a technical design authority, driving complex technical initiatives. Experience with software quality improvement processes and ensuring development stability. Up-to-date industry knowledge of technology standards, information management, development methodologies, and emerging 3rd party software. Experience performing detailed technical reviews and enforcing architectural compliance. Exceptional communication, presentation, and evangelization skills for both technical and non-technical audiences. Proven leadership and mentorship capabilities, including talent identification, coaching, performance management, and team building. Mastered proficiency in Client Service, Quality Focus, Results Orientation, Accountability, Communications, and Collaboration.
- Preferred Skills: Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent. Master's Degree.