Enterprise Architect

Join us at the start of a new era in health care where technology is transforming how and where care is delivered, creating a more connected, effective care experience for all. Our mission at Signify Health is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier. We do this by transforming the home into a health hub through a combination of data, technology & people. We are building a unified technology platform for value-based care that is improving care and reducing spending by treating patients in lower-cost settings and linking providers’ payments to patient outcomes. Signify Health is driving this industry transformation and solving some of the most challenging problems in healthcare – this is where you come in!

Signify Health Ireland is a green field, Galway-based R&D technology center looking for tech savvy individuals interested in embarking on a career that combines your passion for solving complex technology problems with purpose. Careers at Signify Health offer the opportunity to apply your technology and problem-solving skills toward a mission that benefits others and makes life-changing positive impacts on the members we serve every single day. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people who are ready to move the needle and build on our success.

Our strength lies in the diversity of our people - combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture and provide opportunities for growing, learning and leading, empowering our teams to come as they are and deliver their best work.

As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide a new state of the art flexible work environment in our Galway facility at Bonham Quay to support those objectives. Careers with Signify Health Ireland offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to divide their time between our Galway office and their home office.

How will this role have an impact?

The Enterprise Architect is accountable for the business solution designs for key strategic initiatives including (but not limited to) developing architectures that represent business, applications, data, infrastructure, and platform architectures.

The role will report to the Director of Architecture

What will you do?

• The Enterprise Architect is accountable for the business solution designs for key strategic initiatives including (but not limited to) developing architectures that represent business, applications/integration, data, infrastructure, platform, and security architectures
• In this role you will act as the chief SME architect for key strategic initiative(s) significant enterprise experience in architecture and hands-on delivery of solutions to achieve business outcomes
• This includes having the strong ability to look around the corner at emerging technologies and advise senior leadership around the strategic technical vision
• Buy vs Build Analysis: In depth experience in performing Buy vs Build analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis across the available options to provide a final recommendation based on the rationale
• Architecture and design reviews: Play a key leadership role in architecture design reviews and identify gaps and recommend design changes
• Actively lead and participate in the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of technology while keeping in mind the complexities of our IT landscape
• Develop reference architecture and implementation: Providing leadership, coaching and guidance to engineering teams in regards to reference architectures for applications and infrastructure within IT
• Proof of concept technology support: Lead and drive proofs-of-concept and technology deep-dives specific to partner technologies
• Get hands-on and actively assist development teams by advising and resolving technical roadblocks in the solution
• Cost optimization identification: Engage with appropriate stakeholders to recommend or assess opportunities to drive cost efficiencies aimed at simplicity, configurability and eventual elimination of technical debt associated with IT applications
• Develop and enforce Architecture standards across multiple IT disciplines (e.g., application engineering, data engineering, devops)

We are looking for someone with:

• 10+ years in design/development experience
• 2+ years of hands-on cloud implementation experience
• SME level understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, preferably Azure) to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack
• SME level technical skills in the following areas: application and integration architecture, security and automation along with a working knowledge of IT operations
• SME level understanding of APIs and microservices-based architecture is a must
• Domain Driven Design: Be able to map the domain scope to Bounded Contexts /Microservices
• Experience working with technologies that work as glue between modern applications and legacy infrastructure leveraging streaming platforms like Apache Kafka
• Ability to collaborate with Network Operations, Cloud Operations, Data Engineering, Application Engineering, and Security to deliver solutions
• Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile) including DevOps
• Hands-on technologists with coding skills and proficient in modern technology stacks (Cloud, DevOps, Kafka etc.)
• Understanding of both SQL and NoSQL database technologies as well as Cloud database technologies
• Demonstrable hands-on experience is a must
• Facilitates adoption of cloud-native/cloud-first architectures
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience is preferred.

About Us:

Signify Health is helping build the healthcare system we all want to experience by transforming the home into the healthcare hub. We coordinate care holistically across individuals’ clinical, social, and behavioral needs so they can enjoy more healthy days at home. By building strong connections to primary care providers and community resources, we’re able to close critical care and social gaps, as well as manage risk for individuals who need help the most. This leads to better outcomes and a better experience for everyone involved.

Our high-performance networks are powered by more than 9,000 mobile doctors and nurses covering every county in the U.S., 3,500 healthcare providers and facilities in value-based 

arrangements, and hundreds of community-based organizations. Signify’s intelligent technology and decision-support services enable these resources to radically simplify care coordination for more than 1.5 million individuals each year while helping payers and providers more effectively implement value-based care programs.

To learn more about how we’re driving outcomes and making healthcare work better, please visit us at www.signifyhealth.com

 Diversity and Inclusion are core values at Signify Health, and fostering a workplace culture reflective of that is critical to our continued success as an organization.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.