Presales Solution Architect

Job Summary : We are looking for a skilled and motivated candidate in the Healthcare team for the role of Solution Leader/ Architect (SL) to join our dynamic team. The SL will serve as the critical bridge between customer's business problems and technical solutions from our side. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in solution architecting in Healthcare and Life Sciences domain and a passion for technology and innovation. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and a commitment to continuous learning and development. Key Responsibilities : - Requirement qualification: build a strong understanding of organizational strength, direction and capabilities to match with customer need and qualify the proposal requests in Healthcare and Life Sciences domain. - Solution Design & Strategy: Develop comprehensive architectural blueprints, including system designs including core administration platforms, integration plans, and technology selections, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure. - Define and maintain the target-state architecture aligning platform, experience, operations, data, and IT value streams. - Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a translator between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders (clients and executives) to ensure the solution meets both business goals and technical requirements. - Technology Selection: Evaluate and recommend the most suitable tech stacks, frameworks, and platforms based on constraints like budget and time-to-market. - Solution preparation: Guide design decisions, technical narratives, orchestrate and stitch together the solution for the customer needs and RFPs, working together with all stakeholders like specialized technical teams and internal support teams. - Solution defense: prepare presentations, approach and lead solution defense working closely with all the stakeholders. - Documentation: Create detailed technical documentation, component specifications, and user stories to guide the engineering team. - Implementation handover and oversight: Provide technical direction to the development and implementation teams, conduct knowledge transition and ensure that the implementation stays aligned with the original architectural vision. Required qualifications, capabilities & skills : - Education: Master/Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. - TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) for enterprise-level standards certifications would be an added advantage. - Experience: Strong experience of architecture and solutioning especially for the Healthcare domain. - Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills are essential for solution preparation, RFP response and defense. Industry solution expertise : - Good knowledge of USA Healthcare industry, especially payers: Blues, Commercial, State & Local and Regional Health Plans, TPAs. - Good understanding of Healthcare platforms and products, product lifecycle and surrounding services. Technical depth : - Extensive solution analysis and design experience for healthcare operations, applications, integration, and analytical solutions. - Very good understanding of technical architecture, design patterns and trends. - Well versed with emerging technologies including AI, Cloud, IoT and various automation tools.