Senior Director, Solutions Architecture

The role

You will lead a team of 8 Solution Architects within the PaaS Delivery organization. You will set technical and business standards for designing solutions for healthcare clients using mission-critical platforms.

What you will do

• Manage a team of 8 Solution Architects through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
• Own the solution architecture operating model and capacity plan
• Set the standard for solution design quality across the team
• Foster a culture of engaging with customers
• Own escalations when a solution design is contested, technically infeasible, or in tension with a commercial commitment
• Balance workload and account assignments across the team
• Partner with Solution Owners, FDEs, Platform Configuration, QA, and TPMs
• Represent Solution Architecture in cross-functional planning and with client executive stakeholders
• Build repeatable training materials, templates, and playbooks

Required qualifications

• 15+ years in solution architecture, technical consulting, or similar client-facing technical roles, including significant healthcare experience
• 5+ years directly managing a technical team — solution architects, FDEs, technical consultants, or similar
• Familiarity with large, complex platforms — claims systems, utilization/care management platforms, or similarly mission-critical enterprise systems
• A record of leading and making decisions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments without waiting for perfect information
• Strong technical judgment paired with genuine people leadership
• Credibility with client executives, including delivering hard messages when a solution can't meet an expectation

Nice to have

• Deep experience with payer operations, utilization management, or prior authorization specifically
• Experience with FHIR-based integration, including Da Vinci standards, alongside legacy payer integration patterns
• Background scaling a technical team through rapid company growth
• Experience presenting to and influencing client executive stakeholders

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and Employee Assistance Program insurance
• 401K retirement plan with company match
• Flexible spending and health savings account
• Flex Time Off plus company holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

Before you apply

• Preliminary Phone Screening with Talent Acquisition
• Meet with Hiring Manager
• Behavioral Interview(s)

About the company

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs. The company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.