Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Application Architect (Medicaid Technology)
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gainwell Technologies is hiring a Senior Application Architect to lead architecture strategy, modernization, and governance for a Medicaid account. The role provides technical leadership across applications, cloud, data, integration, and security, while advising state Medicaid agencies and ensuring regulatory and operational alignment.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technology architecture strategy, roadmap, and modernization initiatives for a large-scale Medicaid account, aligning technology investments with business and contractual objectives
- Lead architecture governance, establish standards and best practices, and provide oversight for application, integration, cloud, infrastructure, and security architectures
- Serve as the senior technical advisor to state Medicaid agencies, partnering with business and technical stakeholders to support strategic planning, governance, audits, and modernization efforts
- Guide application modernization, cloud adoption, API and integration strategies, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards
- Ensure compliance with Medicaid, HIPAA, CMS, NIST, IRS 1075, and other regulatory and contractual requirements while promoting secure-by-design architecture practices
- Drive interoperability and data exchange strategies, supporting APIs, integrations, ETL processes, and industry-standard healthcare interoperability frameworks
- Lead technical risk, technical debt, and solution oversight activities across the software development lifecycle, providing architectural guidance for complex programs and mission-critical Medicaid systems
Skills
- 9+ years of experience in enterprise, solution, or technology architecture, including leadership of large-scale architecture initiatives and strategic technology roadmaps
- 7+ years of Medicaid, MMIS, MES, healthcare payer, or government healthcare experience, supporting complex, mission-critical systems and working directly with state agencies or government clients
- Strong expertise in application, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, and security architecture, with experience modernizing legacy systems and enterprise platforms
- Experience establishing architecture governance frameworks, leveraging enterprise architecture methodologies and tools such as LeanIX, TOGAF, or equivalent platforms
- Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices, including SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, security, privacy, compliance, risk management, and technology lifecycle governance
- Experience with CMS Medicaid Enterprise Architecture (MEA), MITA, modular MMIS/MES implementations, and CMS certification requirements
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), enterprise databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL), and large-scale healthcare technology environments
- Experience designing and supporting APIs, REST services, event-driven integrations, data lakes, data warehouses, analytics/AI platforms, and identity & access management solutions
Benefits
- Fully remote opportunity — work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Generous, flexible vacation policy
- 401(k) employer match (all salaried, full-time candidates are eligible)
- Comprehensive health benefits (all salaried, full-time candidates are eligible)
- Educational assistance (all salaried, full-time candidates are eligible)
- Comprehensive leadership and technical development academies
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