Senior Applications Architect

Overview

On Site
$120 - $120
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - 12 month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Enterprise solution architecture
health system modernization
data governance frameworks
HL7 FHIR
SNOMED CT

Job Details

Job Description:
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the solution design process for high-impact health modernization projects, ensuring architectural alignment with enterprise goals and system strategy
  • Collaborate with product owners, vendors, and internal delivery teams to co-design and validate integration strategies across multiple systems
  • Act as a bridge between project delivery and long-term sustainability balancing timelines with system coherence
  • Contribute to the evolution of internal design patterns, solution review practices, and platform reuse
  • Ensure alignment with semantic standards {(e.g., Fast Candidatealthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOIClient)} and support consistent application across programs
XXred Skills:
  • Experience designing and implementing enterprise-level data governance frameworks
  • Expertise in conceptual architecture for complex digital ecosystems, particularly in health, government, or regulated sectors
  • Strong working knowledge of semantic interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, ISO 21090)
  • Demonstrated ability to lead strategic alignment across multiple programs and platforms, ensuring consistency in architecture, data standards, and delivery approaches across diverse health system initiatives
  • Demonstrated ability to work across policy, clinical, and technology domains to frame architecture recommendations that support real-world outcomes
  • Knowledge of data utility models, privacy-by-design frameworks, and patient-oriented access controls
  • Proven ability to collaborate with architecture teams, data stewards, and delivery leads to integrate strategy into execution
  • Excellent strategic thinking, facilitation, and communication skills, including ability to translate complex architecture into plain-language visuals or briefings
  • Familiarity with public-sector program planning, governance structures, and initiative sequencing
  • Understanding of Information Candidateagement principles, metadata structures, reference vocabularies, and data classification schemes
  • Experience producing architectural models, system maps, and modernization roadmaps that influence funding and policy decisions
  • Awareness of emerging health system architecture trends (e.g., federated identity, consent orchestration, zero-trust models)
  • Experience working with external organizations (e.g., Ministry of Candidatealth, Canada Candidatealth Infoway) on data and platform alignment
  • Ability to build trust and model alignment with peers, bringing humility, curiosity, and shared mission orientation
Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria:
  • Experience working in the health care industry, specifically in health care administration/health care IT.: 20 Points
  • Experience defining governance, principals, policies and procedures and leading business and/or IT transformation initiatives.: 20 Points
  • Knowledgeable of PHIPA and privacy legislation and how it applies to healthcare IT solutions.: 10 Points
  • Experience dealing in a complex multi private/public stakeholder environment.: 10 Points.
  • Total evaluation criteria - 100%.
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