Technical Architect - AI-Native

Responsibilities:

Business Area Architecture & Solution Design: Define and drive architecture for the assigned business area, translating business strategy, product priorities, and architecture runway into implementable solutions, technical designs, and delivery-ready features.

AI-Native Solution Architecture: Design systems that incorporate AI-enabled capabilities where they create clear business value, and establish guardrails for safe, effective use of AI within applications and workflows. AI-Assisted Engineering Enablement: Advance AI-assisted development practices across the team, including use of copilots, code generation, automated testing, intelligent engineering workflows, agents, and reusable AI skills, while maintaining strong standards for correctness, security, and maintainability with clear human accountability.

Technical Leadership & Governance: Establish and reinforce architecture standards, patterns, and design guardrails within the assigned business area. Guide design reviews and major technical decisions across APIs, services, data flows, and platform components. Implementation Oversight & Problem Solving: Partner closely with developers and technical leads to ensure architecture is effectively realized in code. Proactively identify risks, resolve architectural issues, and guide trade-offs across cost, scalability, reliability, security, and delivery speed.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, security, data, and other partner teams to align architectural decisions with broader technical direction and business outcomes.

Technology Evaluation & Continuous Improvement: Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and platforms for applicability to roadmap and delivery needs. Improve engineering effectiveness through modern architecture patterns, automation, observability, and AI-native delivery practices.

Mentorship & Team Enablement: Mentor developers and other architects within the assigned organization, strengthening architecture discipline, technical judgment, and confidence with modern engineering and AI-assisted development practices. Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting. Required Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned. Required Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change as the needs of Cotiviti and requirements of the job change.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience: 6+ years of experience designing and building web, workflow, service, and backend applications, including direct responsibility for architecture and software design for one or more teams.

Solution & Application Architecture: Significant experience in application and solution architecture, including API design, service decomposition, integration patterns, and user-facing or workflow-oriented applications.

Core Technologies: Hands-on experience with modern languages and frameworks such as Java, Golang, Spring, or comparable technologies, and strong experience building rich, responsive APIs and service-based systems.

Cloud & Distributed Systems: Deep familiarity with microservices, cloud-native architecture, cloud platforms, distributed applications, streaming patterns, and enterprise integration approaches.

AI-Native Engineering: Experience applying AI-assisted development, agent-based workflows, and reusable AI skills to improve design, coding, testing, and delivery outcomes. Familiarity with agents, copilots, code generation, automated testing, and intelligent orchestration of development workflows, with strong judgment to ensure correctness, security, and maintainability.

Software Delivery Practices: Strong experience across the SDLC, including Agile delivery, CI/CD, DevOps practices, APM, observability, and engineering approaches that improve quality, speed, and operational resilience.

Architectural Judgment: Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements and evaluate trade-offs across cost, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed.

Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead architecture and software design across a team or business area, build consensus, mentor engineers, and drive sound technical decisions in a collaborative environment.

Communication & Collaboration: Ability to clearly articulate advanced technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across teams, stakeholders, vendors, and partners.

Hands-On Depth: Strong hands-on technical depth with the ability to review implementation details, solve complex technical problems, and remain credible with developers working across modern application and platform stacks.

Cognitive / Mental Requirements: Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. Able to translate regulatory/clinical requirements into technical solutions and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Strong problem-solving mindset and a track record of driving initiatives from concept to implementation. Leadership and mentorship capabilities are essential - this role will guide teams and represent Cotiviti s interoperability expertise both internally and externally, so the candidate should be comfortable taking initiative, leading without authority when required, and mentoring others.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area. Must be able to provide high-speed internet access/connectivity and office setup and maintenance.