[Hiring] Solutions Principal Architect @DAVITA

Role Description

DaVita’s Principal Solutions Architects are responsible for defining the architecture of IT solutions. This role serves as a senior technical leader who translates business needs into secure, scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective solution designs. Principal Solutions Architects partner across Enterprise Architecture, Product, Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data, and Operations teams to evaluate build-versus-buy options, shape solution direction, reduce technology redundancy, and guide delivery teams toward successful implementation.

This role is intended for an architect with deep pre-existing expertise in one or more of these strategic enterprise platforms: Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Epic Systems. The successful candidate will use this platform expertise to accelerate solution design, strengthen governance, improve integration patterns, and help DaVita make durable technology decisions aligned to enterprise standards and business value.

Qualifications

• Deep architecture experience with at least one strategic enterprise platform: Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and/or Epic Systems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, solution design patterns, integration architecture, identity and access management, data protection, security-by-design, and operational support considerations.
• Experience evaluating SaaS and packaged applications, including platform capabilities, configuration versus customization tradeoffs, integration approaches, vendor fit, and long-term maintainability.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native architecture concepts and modern delivery practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, resiliency, and scalable application design.
• Experience establishing reusable AI solution patterns and reference architectures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance strategic direction, business value, delivery practicality, user experience, security, compliance, and cost.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to collaborate with executives, business leaders, product owners, engineers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors, and support teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor technical teammates, lead design discussions, facilitate alignment across groups, and promote consistent architecture practices.
• Familiarity with healthcare technology, regulated environments, privacy, compliance, PHI/PII handling, HIPAA considerations, and secure integration patterns is preferred.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior architecture role, architecting complex enterprise solution either in a cloud environment or equivalent.
• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in architecting and designing solutions leveraging GCP technologies like BigQuery, Dataflow, GCP Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL or Spanner.
• Experience designing or enabling enterprise AI solutions, AI-powered workflows, intelligent automation, copilots, virtual agents, knowledge assistants, or data-driven decision support capabilities is preferred.
• Proven experience in a leadership role, driving application design strategy, and guiding software delivery teams.
• In-depth knowledge of the use of data to support software development methodologies, architectural patterns, and best practices.
• Healthcare industry experience that fosters better requirements aligned to common standards and regulations (HL7, HITSP, NIST, HIPAA, ICD-10, and NCPDP) is preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out.
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access to Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more.
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.