Integrations Architect / Tech Lead
WellBeam Inc· startup· Information Technology And Services· Aug 20, 2026 · 2mo agoPosted 68 days ago
United States
Remote
Full-time
Lead/Staff
$120K–$170K
8+ years exp
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Job description
WHAT YOU’LL DO
INTEGRATION PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE
- Own the technical architecture of WellBeam’s interoperability platform.
- Define architectural standards and best practices for healthcare interoperability.
- Design scalable integration patterns across:
- HL7v2
- FHIR APIs
- SMART on FHIR
- REST APIs
- XML
- Flat-file exchanges
- Event-driven integrations
- Etc. (Any other standards)
- Define standards for:
- API versioning
- Security
- Identity management
- Patient matching
- Error handling
- Observability
- Reliability
- Conduct architecture reviews for major engineering initiatives and customer implementations.
- Identify opportunities to convert customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities.
CUSTOMER SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE
- Lead technical discovery workshops with health systems and post-acute providers.
- Serve as WellBeam’s principal technical advisor during customer engagements.
- Design scalable integration architectures that balance customer requirements with long-term platform strategy.
- Produce technical solution designs, architecture diagrams, implementation strategies, and technical recommendations.
- Partner with Delivery during pre-sales, implementation planning, and complex customer engagements.
- Review Statements of Work from a technical architecture perspective.
- Identify implementation risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
- Serve as the healthcare interoperability Subject Matter Expert (SME) across the organization.
- Support multiple Product Managers with technical feasibility assessments and architectural guidance.
- Partner with Engineering teams to solve complex interoperability challenges.
- Mentor engineers on healthcare integration best practices and architectural patterns.
- Lead technical design reviews across squads.
- Influence engineering direction without direct management responsibility.
HEALTHCARE INTEROPERABILITY STRATEGY
- Drive WellBeam’s technical interoperability strategy.
- Stay current with industry standards including:
- TEFCA
- QHINs
- FHIR
- SMART on FHIR
- PACIO
- Direct Secure Messaging
- Bulk FHIR
- CDS Hooks
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments.
- Build relationships with interoperability partners, EMR vendors, and industry organizations.
DELIVERY & IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERSHIP
- Support Delivery and Customer Success with technically complex customer requests.
- Evaluate implementation feasibility and long-term architectural implications.
- Recommend when customer requests should be addressed through:
- Configuration
- Existing platform capabilities
- New reusable platform features
- Customer-specific implementation
- Partner with Engineering to resolve complex implementation and production issues.
- Participate in critical customer escalations requiring deep technical expertise.
PLATFORM ENGINEERING & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
- Drive standardization across customer implementations.
- Reduce implementation effort through reusable frameworks, tooling, automation, and platform enhancements.
- Identify recurring implementation challenges and convert them into engineering improvements.
- Improve observability, diagnostics, and operational support for integration workflows.
- Champion “build once, deploy many” engineering principles.
DOCUMENTATION & TECHNICAL STANDARDS
Own and maintain technical documentation including:
- Reference architectures
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Integration standards
- API design guidelines
- Implementation patterns
- Customer integration guides
- Internal engineering documentation
- Best practice playbooks
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Within your first 12 months you will have:
- Established a clear architectural vision for WellBeam’s interoperability platform.
- Reduced custom implementation effort through reusable integration capabilities.
- Standardized integration patterns across engineering squads.
- Improved implementation predictability through architecture and technical governance.
- Built trusted relationships with Product, Engineering, Delivery, and customer technical teams.
- Increased reuse of platform capabilities across customer implementations.
- Reduced production integration issues through improved architecture and engineering standards.
- Positioned WellBeam to rapidly onboard new health systems and post-acute partners with minimal custom engineering.
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
- 8+ years of software engineering, solutions architecture, or healthcare interoperability experience.
- 5+ years designing and delivering enterprise healthcare integrations.
- Deep expertise with:
- HL7v2
- FHIR APIs
- SMART on FHIR
- REST APIs
- XML
- Flat-file integrations
- Experience integrating with enterprise EMRs such as:
- Epic
- Oracle Health (Cerner)
- Athenahealth
- Homecare Homebase
- or similar healthcare platforms.
- Strong understanding of healthcare data mapping, transformation, validation, patient identity matching, and interoperability workflows.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems and API architectures.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native application architecture (AWS preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives without direct management authority.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced startup or high-growth environments.
PREFERRED
- Experience building interoperability platforms rather than only customer-specific integrations.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging systems.
- Familiarity with Mirth Connect (NextGen Connect), Rhapsody, Cloverleaf, or similar integration engines.
- Experience with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and healthcare identity management.
- Knowledge of:
- TEFCA
- QHINs
- PACIO
- Direct Secure Messaging
- Bulk FHIR
- CDS Hooks
- Experience working with health systems, home health, hospice, or care coordination organizations.
- Hands-on software development experience with modern programming languages.
- Experience reviewing architecture and mentoring senior engineers.
THE TYPE OF PERSON YOU ARE
- You naturally think in systems rather than individual projects.
- You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and designing elegant, scalable solutions.
- You balance pragmatism with long-term architectural thinking.
- You thrive in ambiguity and bring structure to complex technical challenges.
- You influence through technical expertise, collaboration, and credibility rather than organizational authority.
- You enjoy mentoring engineers and elevating the technical capabilities of those around you.
- You are equally comfortable whiteboarding with a CIO, debugging an HL7 message, reviewing an API design, or coaching an engineering team through a complex architecture decision.
- You continuously look for opportunities to transform one-off customer work into reusable platform capabilities.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT WELLBEAM
- Competitive salary and equity participation
- Remote work with flexible working hours
- Monthly team dinners (if local to the SF Bay Area) and regular company-wide offsites
- Generous holidays and Paid Time Off
- Health, vision, and dental insurance options
- 401(k)
Compensation Range: $120,000 - $170,000
Interested?
Email recruitment@well-beam.com with the role title in the subject line. Please include a brief introduction and your resume.
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