Integrations Architect / Tech Lead

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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