Enterprise Architect

Job Description:
You will work with solution leaders and client stakeholders to define target architectures, create scalable systems and lead integration of digital front-end systems with core clinical, claims, and data platforms. Your ability to balance business needs with technical depth will drive digital transformation across payer, provider, and pharmaceutical clients.
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Key Responsibilities:

- Design and govern scalable architectures using Front End Engineering and Cloud Native Architectures
- Define integration blueprints that connect digital systems with core platforms (EHR, claims, CRM, Veeva, etc.) via REST, FHIR, HL7, or API gateways.
- Architect microservices-based solutions with appropriate separation of concerns, scalability, and maintainability.
- Define and guide data architecture decisions, including real-time integration, event-driven design, and use of cloud-native data stores.
- Assess legacy modernization paths, define transformation roadmaps, and ensure alignment to enterprise standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and DevOps teams to ensure architectural alignment through delivery.
- Provide architecture leadership in RFP responses, client pitches, and delivery planning sessions.
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Required Experience & Skills:

- 12-15 years of IT experience, with at least 5 years in enterprise architecture or lead solution architecture roles.
- Deep experience in scalable front-end and backend development:

- Frontend: React.js, Redux, Webpack, Responsive UI
- Backend: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs
- Strong understanding of Integration Architecture, including:

- RESTful services, FHIR/HL7, event-driven design (Kafka or similar)
- API gateways, integration middleware (Mulesoft, Boomi, Apigee, etc.)
- Familiarity with Healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, EDI 270/271, X12)
- Experience with data architecture patterns: operational data stores, data lakes, near-real-time streaming, data APIs
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container-based architectures (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong grasp of enterprise security, compliance, and high-availability architectures for regulated domains like healthcare.
- Excellent communication skills with proven ability to engage client technology leaders (CTOs, VPs, Directors).
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Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

- TOGAF, AWS/Azure architecture certification.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), SSO, and OAuth2 implementations.
- Knowledge of healthcare platforms such as Epic, Cerner, or payer core systems (Facets, QNXT, HealthEdge).

**About Virtusa**

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

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