Solutions Architect, Specialist

Company Overview

Acentra Health exists to empower better health outcomes through technology, services, and clinical expertise. Our mission is to innovate health solutions that deliver maximum value and impact.

Lead the Way is our rallying cry at Acentra Health. Think of it as an open invitation to embrace the mission of the company; to actively engage in problem‑solving; and to take ownership of your work every day. Acentra Health offers you unparalleled opportunities. In fact, you have all you need to take charge of your career and accelerate better outcomes - making this a great time to join our team of passionate individuals dedicated to being a vital partner for health solutions in the public sector.

Acentra Health is looking for a Solutions Architect Specialist to join our growing team.

Job Summary

The Product Engineer specialist/ Solution Architect at Acentra Health is responsible for driving the technical design, development, and evolution of enterprise healthcare products supporting Medicaid, claims processing, managed care, enrollment, and related services. This role provides hands‑on technical leadership while defining scalable, compliant, and interoperable solution architectures aligned with federal and state healthcare regulations, business outcomes, and long‑term product strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of healthcare product features across the full SDLC.
• Translate complex healthcare requirements (claims, eligibility, managed care, encounters, pricing, edits) into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and code‑level guidance to engineering teams, ensuring quality, consistency, and best practices.
• Partner closely with Product, QA, Release, and Operations teams to ensure predictable, compliant releases.
• Drive defect resolution, root‑cause analysis, and production support for critical healthcare workflows.
• Champion performance, security, accessibility, and data integrity across products.

• Define and own end‑to‑end solution architectures across claims, managed care, enrollment, pricing, integrations, and data platforms.
• Design secure, scalable integrations with internal systems, state partners, vendors, and external services (APIs, batch, messaging).
• Ensure architectural alignment with CMS, HIPAA, state‑specific regulations, and Acentra Health enterprise standards.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, design artifacts, and technical decision records.
• Review designs and implementations to ensure architectural integrity, scalability, and reuse across programs.

• Ensure solutions meet healthcare regulatory requirements (HIPAA, CMS guidelines, state policies).
• Support audit readiness by ensuring traceability between requirements, designs, and implementations.
• Collaborate with compliance, security, and privacy teams to mitigate risk and ensure adherence to standards.

• Act as a technical leader and mentor, guiding engineers and promoting knowledge sharing.
• Drive cross‑team alignment across Product Engineering, Architecture, QA, Release, and Program teams.
• Communicate technical risks, trade‑offs, and dependencies clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
• Support readiness testing, demos, and stakeholder reviews to ensure business and client confidence.
• Proactively identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities, and drive them to resolution.
• Read, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security Rules.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or 6 years' experience in lieu of degree).
• 15+ years of overall engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a lead or architecture‑focused role.
• Strong experience in healthcare systems, preferably Medicaid, claims processing, or managed care platforms.
• Expertise in enterprise application development, integrations, and data workflows.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, SDLC, and Dev Ops practices in regulated environments.