Solutions Principal Architect (IT)

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DaVita's Principal Solutions Architects are responsible for defining the architecture of IT solutions. This role serves as a senior technical leader who translates business needs into secure, scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective solution designs. Principal Solutions Architects partner across Enterprise Architecture, Product, Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data, and Operations teams to evaluate build-versus-buy options, shape solution direction, reduce technology redundancy, and guide delivery teams toward successful implementation.

This role is intended for an architect with deep pre-existing expertise in one or more of these strategic enterprise platforms: Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Epic Systems. The successful candidate will use this platform expertise to accelerate solution design, strengthen governance, improve integration patterns, and help DaVita make durable technology decisions aligned to enterprise standards and business value.

The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all-inclusive.

• Define solution architecture for complex enterprise initiatives, including packaged applications, SaaS platforms, custom applications, integrations, cloud services, data flows, identity, security, and operational support models.
• Serve as a platform architecture expert for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and/or Epic Systems helping teams apply platform capabilities appropriately while avoiding unnecessary customization, duplication, or long-term support burden.
• Identify practical AI opportunities across solution architecture, including where generative AI, automation, intelligent search, knowledge management, decision support, or agentic workflows could improve teammate productivity, experience, quality, or operational efficiency.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, and operations stakeholders to translate business objectives into clear solution recommendations, estimates, and implementation guidance.
• Lead architecture assessments and design reviews that evaluate solution fit, scalability, resiliency, complexity, cost, and alignment with enterprise standards and roadmaps.
• Develop architecture blueprints, system context diagrams, deployment views, integration patterns, and executive-ready solution summaries that support informed investment and governance decisions.
• Guide build-vs-buy evaluations for SaaS, packaged, and custom-built solutions, including assessment of vendor capabilities, platform overlap, implementation complexity, extensibility, support model, and total cost of ownership.
• Drive modernization by promoting composable architectures, reusable integration patterns, identity and access standards, cloud-ready designs, and responsible use of AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure solution designs align with target architecture, technology standards, portfolio direction, security expectations, and broader modernization goals.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, engineers, product teams, and delivery partners, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and adherence to architecture principles.
• Identify technical risks, architectural tradeoffs, dependencies, and assumptions early in the project lifecycle and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle by clarifying architecture intent, assisting with design decisions, reviewing implementation approaches, and helping resolve architecture-related issues.
• Stay current with emerging platform capabilities, vendor roadmaps, healthcare technology trends, cybersecurity expectations, and architecture best practices to continuously improve DaVita's solution architecture capability.

• Deep architecture experience with at least one strategic enterprise platform: Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and/or Epic Systems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, solution design patterns, integration architecture, identity and access management, data protection, security-by-design, and operational support considerations.
• Experience evaluating SaaS and packaged applications, including platform capabilities, configuration versus customization tradeoffs, integration approaches, vendor fit, and long-term maintainability.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native architecture concepts and modern delivery practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, resiliency, and scalable application design.
• Experience establishing reusable AI solution patterns and reference architectures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance strategic direction, business value, delivery practicality, user experience, security, compliance, and cost.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to collaborate with executives, business leaders, product owners, engineers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors, and support teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor technical teammates, lead design discussions, facilitate alignment across groups, and promote consistent architecture practices.
• Familiarity with healthcare technology, regulated environments, privacy, compliance, PHI/PII handling, HIPAA considerations, and secure integration patterns is preferred.

Candidates should bring expert-level experience in one or more of the following platform domains:

• Microsoft 365: Architecture and governance for SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Studio, Microsoft Graph, Purview, identity integration, collaboration patterns, intranet/content management, and enterprise adoption controls.
• Salesforce: Architecture for Salesforce platform capabilities, data models, integrations, workflow automation, Einstein/Agentforce, security model, environment strategy, governance, and extensibility.
• ServiceNow: Architecture for ServiceNow platform capabilities, ITSM/ITOM workflows, CMDB and data model strategy, integrations, catalog and workflow design, automation, ServiceNow AI/Now Assist, governance, platform extensibility, and operational support models.
• Epic Systems: Architecture and governance for Epic Systems platform capabilities, EpicCare, MyChart, Chronicles, Reporting Workbench, integration patterns, identity and access and operational support models.
• Google Clout Platform: Architecture for Google Cloud (or similar cloud platform) including project design, networking, storage, compute, AI / Gemini, security, and operational support models.

Education, licenses, certifications, and experience required to fulfill the essential duties, include computer skills as required.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Data science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior architecture role, architecting complex enterprise solution either in a cloud environment or equivalent.
• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in architecting and designing solutions leveraging GCP technologies like BigQuery, Dataflow, GCP Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL or Spanner
• Experience designing or enabling enterprise AI solutions, AI-powered workflows, intelligent automation, copilots, virtual agents, knowledge assistants, or data-driven decision support capabilities is preferred.
• Proven experience in a leadership role, driving application design strategy, and guiding software delivery teams.
• In-depth knowledge of the use of data to support software development methodologies, architectural patterns, and best practices.
• Healthcare industry experience that fosters better requirements aligned to common standards and regulations (HL7, HITSP, NIST, HIPAA, ICD-10, and NCPDP) is preferred.

Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:

• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter.
• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
• A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future.
• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation. About Information Technology

The Information Technology Department designs, develops and maintains software programs required to keep DaVita on the leading edge of medical technology. DaVita's Information Technology Department has both clinic facing and non-clinic facing subgroups that provide our clinician teammates the tools to provide quality patient care. DaVita IT utilizes designers, developers, system architects, project managers, application architects, nurses, trainers and many more professionals to incorporate the technology needs of our clinicians, business and physician customers.

What We'll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita's online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

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