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Cox Enterprises · 1 day ago

Principle Healthcare Solutions Architect (RapidScale)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$148K/yr - $248K/yr

10+ years exp

Cox Communications is a leading provider of managed and advisory services, and they are seeking a Principal Healthcare Solutions Architect to serve as a trusted advisor to healthcare clients. The role involves shaping and delivering innovative cloud, infrastructure, and security solutions to address the unique challenges of large healthcare organizations.

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No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead tailored discovery engagements with healthcare organizations, focusing on mission critical applications, business and clinical workflows, IT infrastructure, cloud, regulatory pressures (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH), data governance, and interoperability needs

Translate healthcare-specific challenges into actionable, outcome-based technical strategies

Conduct interviews and workshops across both business and IT leadership to surface high-impact initiatives

Influence C-level stakeholders by linking IT transformation to patient care outcomes and financial imperatives

Architect secure, scalable hybrid and hybrid cloud environments aligned with application availability, performance requirements and regulatory standards in mind

Operate as an overlay specialist across regional teams, supporting large strategic healthcare pursuits in a technical leadership role

Partner with RapidScale’s sales team, cloud solution architects, AI/ML specialists, and Security and Compliance experts to co-develop pursuit strategies and solution roadmaps

Contribute to RFP responses, executive briefings, and solution validations specific to healthcare use cases

Serve as a subject matter expert internally helping evolve our constantly growing healthcare IT practice

Design secure environments aligned with HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST, and evolving CMS cybersecurity expectations

Guide customers through risk assessments, BAA considerations, and audit readiness

Stay current on trends in healthcare IT (e.g., cloud in clinical systems, AI/ML in diagnostics, telehealth infrastructure)

Educate clients on how RapidScale’s solutions directly support healthcare-specific goals, including patient experience, clinician productivity, and cost containment

Represent RapidScale at healthcare technology forums, panels, and strategic client briefings

Qualification

Healthcare IT systemsCloud architectureSecurity complianceVMwareAWSAzureDisaster recoveryClient engagementCommunicationTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field (i.e. solutions engineering, architecture, or consulting role). The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 14 years' experience in a related field

5 years focused on the healthcare sector

Familiarity with clinical and administrative systems (Epic, Cerner, PACS, HL7/FHIR, etc.)

Strong understanding of healthcare operational priorities, from uptime and failover for critical apps to navigating capital and operational funding constraints

Preferred

Strong knowledge of VMware, storage (SAN/NAS), and VDI/DaaS environments that host healthcare-related applications and workloads

Familiar with hybrid architectures that span AWS, Azure, and GCP — especially those optimized for healthcare workloads

Experience designing secure, compliant solutions for protected health information (PHI), including MDR, IAM, and encrypted backup/DR strategies

Ability to design and optimize connectivity strategies between facilities, cloud regions, and co-located environments

Proven experience with high-availability solutions that support healthcare's uptime expectations and testing/audit needs

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations

Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year

Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members

Bereavement leave

Time off to vote

Jury duty leave

Volunteer time off

Military leave

Parental leave

Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)

Retirement planning (401(k))

Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)