Principal Architect, Healthcare

Location: United States; candidates near San Antonio, Texas work hybrid with two office days per week, while candidates elsewhere in the United States may work 100% from home. Up to 10% travel is required for onsite customer engagements. Candidates must reside in the United States. The role is not sponsorship eligible; candidates must be legally allowed to work in the US for any employer and must not hold an F-1 OPT visa.

Salary: $165,830.00–$243,141.80 per year, depending on geographic market, knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional incentive compensation may include annual bonuses or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Company

Enterprise technology services support private cloud, public cloud, applications, data, AI, and cyber resilience for regulated and mission-critical environments.

What you will do

• Architect resilience and disaster recovery solutions for clinical and PHI-bearing healthcare workloads, including Epic, Cerner, and other EHR and clinical platforms.
• Define DR tiering, failover architecture, RPO/RTO design, and continuity strategies aligned with HIPAA and HITRUST expectations.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex DR and resilience issues across the healthcare vertical and lead root cause analysis for related incidents.
• Provide architecture input for Deal Gate submissions and supply DR and resilience evidence for Operational Readiness Reviews and healthcare go-lives.
• Design according to No-PHI-export principles and Clinical First Cloud patterns while collaborating with Infrastructure, Epic Operations, Security, Clinical Informatics, customers, and business development teams.
• Review vendor and backup/DR platform escalations, identify training opportunities, and coach Infrastructure and Systems Architecture staff on healthcare-specific resilience patterns.

Requirements

• 12–14 years of experience in infrastructure or systems architecture.
• At least 7 years of direct experience in healthcare systems environments, such as Epic or Cerner EHR platforms, clinical infrastructure, or HIPAA-regulated healthcare delivery.
• Expert-level knowledge of disaster recovery and resilience architecture across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of healthcare infrastructure requirements, EHR platform resilience, clinical workflow continuity, and PHI data-boundary design.
• Working knowledge of healthcare regulatory and compliance frameworks affecting infrastructure design, including HIPAA and HITRUST.
• Expert-level technical knowledge of troubleshooting methodologies, design, and implementation, as well as infrastructure architecture and technology business impact.
• Cloud computing, cybersecurity, network and systems skills, business continuity management, DevOps and automation, risk assessment and management, and strong technical acumen.
• High school diploma or regional equivalent and a bachelor's degree; relevant additional experience may substitute for the degree requirement at the manager's discretion.
• MCSA for Windows specialization or RHCA for Linux specialization.

Nice to have

• Business continuity or disaster recovery certification, such as CBCP or MBCI.
• Cloud provider architecture certification for AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Specialist certifications related to healthcare or resilience architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from within the United States, with a hybrid option for candidates near San Antonio.
• Annual bonus or incentive opportunities, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan may be included in the compensation package.
• Work focuses on reliability, security, compliance, and predictable costs for regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support are provided.