Lead Solution Architect – Patient Peripheral Platform
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Summary
Defines the future architecture for a patient-facing peripheral platform in a connected healthcare ecosystem: evaluating hardware/software options (commercial, embedded, tablet, kiosk), designing integrations with clinical apps, medical devices, cloud and offline environments, and leading security, compliance, and stakeholder decisions.
The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for evaluating and defining the future architecture for a patient-facing peripheral platform within a connected healthcare ecosystem.
This role assesses hardware, software, and deployment options to identify a scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution that supports patient identification, clinical workflows, peripheral device integration, and digital data collection across cloud-connected, hybrid,
and offline environments.
The architect will develop architectural recommendations, evaluate technology alternatives, define integration approaches, and establish a roadmap that balances current business needs with future platform evolution.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Strategy
- Define the target architecture for the patient and peripheral platform.
- Evaluate commercial, custom-built, embedded, tablet-based, and kiosk-based solutions.
- Assess architecture alternatives based on technical fit, lifecycle, cost, risk, scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Create architectural recommendations and decision records.
Solution Evaluation
- Lead structured trade-off analyses across hardware and software options.
- Develop business and technical recommendations for leadership and engineering teams.
- Balance short-term delivery objectives with long-term platform sustainability.
Platform Integration
- Define integration patterns with clinical applications, identity services, connected medical devices, edge environments, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
- Establish interface standards, communication patterns, and data exchange requirements.
- Ensure compatibility across online, intermittently connected, and offline deployment models.
Patient Identification & Workflow Design
- Define architectures supporting modern identification methods such as NFC, QR codes, biometric authentication, and identity federation.
- Support clinical workflows including patient onboarding, treatment preparation, and data capture.
- Ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience.
Peripheral Connectivity
- Define integration approaches for devices such as scales, blood pressure monitors, temperature sensors, and future clinical peripherals.
- Establish standards for USB, Bluetooth, Ethernet, serial communication, and emerging connectivity technologies.
- Enable extensibility for future device types and use cases.
Security & Compliance
- Incorporate security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles.
- Define approaches for device identity, secure boot, authentication, authorization, encryption, and remote management.
- Support compliance with applicable healthcare, cybersecurity, and quality standards.
Migration & Modernization
- Define migration paths from legacy systems and workflows to future platforms.
- Minimize operational disruption during transition periods.
- Support coexistence between existing and future technologies where required.
Stakeholder Leadership
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, quality, regulatory, cybersecurity, operations, and enterprise architecture teams.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making activities.
- Provide clear communication of architectural direction, risks, and trade-offs.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Several years of experience in solution or system architecture for complex, distributed systems.
- Experience evaluating hardware and software platforms and defining long-term technology strategies.
- Strong knowledge of edge computing, cloud platforms, device connectivity, identity management, and distributed architectures.
- Experience integrating hardware devices with enterprise and cloud-based applications.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
What they ask for
Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- Several years of experience in solution or system architecture for complex, distributed systems
- Experience evaluating hardware and software platforms and defining long-term technology strategies
- Strong knowledge of edge computing, cloud platforms, device connectivity, identity management, and distributed architectures
- Experience integrating hardware devices with enterprise and cloud-based applications
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills