Senior Software Architect - job 2 of 2

For more than 20 years, PointClickCare has been the backbone of senior care. We’ve amassed the richest senior care dataset making our market density untouchable and our connections to the healthcare ecosystem exponentially more powerful than those of any other platform. 

With Collective Medical & Audacious Inquiry, we’ve become the most expansive, full-continuum care collaboration network, offering care teams immediate, point-of-care access to deep, real-time insights at every stage of a patient’s journey.

For more information on PointClickCare, please connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.

Job Summary 

As a Senior Software Architect, you are driven, possess a high degree of discipline and can deliver robust solutions for complex and large-scale software systems. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software solutions that address the whole business problem. As a Senior Software Architect, you will drive the technical feasibility analysis for projects to identify and mitigate technical risks. Your expertise in selecting appropriate technologies and frameworks will drive innovation and shape the overall architecture, ensuring it aligns with business and technical goals. Throughout the development process, you will lead and mentor engineering teams, ensuring the successful implementation of the architectural design. Your ability to define the strategic architecture vision will be essential in aligning the software architecture with the overall organization technology strategy, driving its success in a fast-paced competitive market.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex and ambiguous business requirements into robust solution designs.
• Assess the technical feasibility of new projects and help engineering teams to solve their most difficult technical challenges.
• Understand and contribute to the long-term system architecture strategy and teach others about it.
• Design for non-functional requirements including maintainability, efficiency, scalability, observability, availability, and security.
• Estimate resources required for a proposed design and optimize plans for cost, performance, or other attributes.
• Help to review design proposals from others.
• Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures.
• Research new software, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations and proofs of concept.
• Define best practices, patterns, and guidelines in coding and system design.
• Review designs and code to ensure its compliance with best practices and coding standards.
• Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and consultation to other architects and engineering teams to ensure the successful execution of software projects.
• Analyze legacy code and plan for enhancements to maintainability and other non-functional requirements.

• You can relate your solid experience in designing large scale, web-based software products and collaborating with a team to support their development and deployment.
• You have experience developing and deploying complex systems in Azure or another public cloud provider.
• You are deeply familiar with many elements of our technology stack, which includes Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Avro, JavaScript, MySQL, and Gradle.
• You have prior experience with high-throughput healthcare information systems using HL7 or FHIR, or analogous integrations in other domains.
• You successfully manage system complexity through modularization and specification of maintainable boundaries between components.
• You demonstrate exceptional analytical, planning, and diagnostic abilities.
• You use active listening skills and clear communication in speaking, writing, and diagramming.
• Your interpersonal skills allow you to build consensus and promote understanding and adoption of architectural strategy.
• You recognize and apply object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and architectural patterns.
• You couple new research and data with your experience and intuition to find answers that are innovative yet pragmatic.

It is the policy of PointClickCare to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. PointClickCare welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please contact recruitment@pointclickcare.com should you require any accommodations.

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