Integration Architect - Healthcare Payor

The role will focus on integration architecture activities and strategy solutioning within the healthcare payor space to help design, validate, refine, and guide our enterprise integration strategy. This individual would have knowledge This strategy will be the foundational building block for enabling business processes, system interoperability, and future digital capabilities. The goal is to ensure that our near-term decisions create a strong, scalable foundation for both our short-term and long-term business and technology needs. This individual will provide strategic integration architectural guidance and design. A key objective of this initiative is to build internal capabilities so our team can confidently and independently execute, sustain, and evolve the integration strategy over time

Key Objectives

• Define and validate a target-state integration architecture aligned to our business objectives.
• Determine the appropriate integration governance, ownership, design standards that fits both short-term and long-term sustainability
• Evaluate the role and fit of an iPaaS based model and related platforms, and how they would be used within the broader integration architecture
• Ensure the strategy is practical and viable within organizational, financial, and staffing constraints
• Reduce architectural and investment risk before large-scall delivery
• Upskill and enable our internal team through knowledge sharing, working sessions, and architectural mentorship to ensure successful execution and ownership of the strategy

Service Need

• Integration operating model recommendations (governance, ownership, design standards)
• Assist with evaluating the role and fit of iPaaS and related integration platforms
• Application/service layer, API management, workflow orchestration
• Assess our current state landscape and identify risks and gaps
• Develop a roadmap from current state to target state
• Identify quick wins, dependencies, risks, and decision points
• Ongoing architecture validation and advisory support to leadership and technical teams

Skills And Experience

• Deep experience in enterprise integration architecture, healthcare payor knowledge strongly preferred
• Hands-on experience with various integration models
• Knowledge and experience with iPaaS platforms and API management
• Experiencing design and governing healthcare integrations, including APIs based on HL7 and FHIR standards
• Ability to operate at both executive and technical architecture levels
• Vendor neutral, architecture first mindset