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 [email protected] with the role title in the subject line. Please include a brief introduction and your resume.