Company Description

Accolade at a glance… Accolade provides personalized health and benefits solutions designed to empower every person to live their healthiest life. Using a blend of cloud-based technologies, specialized support from Accolade Health Assistants® and Clinicians, and integrated data and programs across mobile, online and phone, Accolade navigates people through the healthcare system with trust, empathy and ease. Employers of all sizes offer Accolade to employees and their families as the single place to turn for all health, healthcare, and benefits questions or concerns, increasing their engagement in benefits and connecting them to the highest quality providers and care. By empowering people to make better decisions about their health, Accolade lowers the cost and complexity of healthcare, and achieves consumer satisfaction ratings over 90% and an NPS of 60. The company has been recognized multiple times as a Fastest Growing Business, Top Workplace and Company to Watch. For more information, visit Accolade on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and at www.accolade.com.

Job Description

Role overview ...

The Solutions Architect as part of the Accolade Architecture Team is responsible for one or more horizontal areas in the platform, driving the architecture, quality and technology roadmap. In addition, they may own the technology direction and architecture in key vertical projects. In a highly dynamic environment, this role serves to collaborate with business stake holders to provide innovative solutions and packaging the platform capabilities into new products and offerings for Accolade customers. While working on these solutions, they will need to build evolutionary prototypes and proof-of-concepts to translate business inputs into a demonstrable application, service or workflow. The candidate will need to deeply engage and collaborate with Executives, Technology/Business Stakeholders and Architects to enable a natural alignment of technology and Product roadmap. At the same time, the candidate needs to guide the development teams on patterns/best-practices as as they work on lower level nuances while simultaneously translating the architecture into implementation. 

A day in the life…

• Live the Company Values and Cultural Cornerstones everyday and every possible opportunity
• Align closely with the Business, Product and Technology direction and seek opportunities for collaboration
• Build evolutionary architecture and solutions with strong focus on delivery
• Drive standardization and best practices on Architecture and Design Principles
• Participate in the Architecture review process and collaborate with other Architects on defining specifications and patterns
• Build prototypes using best known methods and within the architecture/engineering framework. Work effectively across all layers of the stack, from backends and data tiers to front-end and browser/mobile clients
• Exceptional ability to identify quick solutions to problems with strong bias towards results and with eye toward the long run 
• Collaborate with the development teams and seek opportunities to live their challenges to provide effective solutions
• Always willing to roll up sleeves, learn, communicate, analyze, and drive initiatives forward
• Effectively communicate findings and proposed recommendations from these analyses to relevant Senior/Executive Leadership

Qualifications

What we are looking for…

•  Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
• 15+ years of relevant prior work experience in Software Engineering, Architecture and Design roles
• At least 4 years of experience in Architecting and Designing complex and high-impact solutions
• Deep understanding of Distributed and Cloud based Architecture, Patterns and Best-Practices
• Hands-on architectural style with proficiency on any technology stack
• Previous experience with health care domain and data such as claims, digital health solutions, electronic health records, clinical and patient reported data would be a plus
• Excellent technical documentation written skills, with clear, concise, and logically organized documents that can explain complicated and complex topics with clarity and transparency.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail, quality and scientific rigor
• Strong bias for action
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Additional Information

What is important to us
Creating an enduring company that is hyper-focused on our culture and making a meaningful impact in the lives of our employees, members and customers. The secret to our success is:

We find joy and purpose in serving others
Making a difference in our members’ and customers’ lives is what we do. Even when it’s hard, we do the right thing for the right reasons.

We roll up our sleeves and get stuff done
Results motivate us. And we aren't afraid of the hard work or tough decisions needed to get us there.

We are strong individually and together, we’re powerful
Trusting in our colleagues and embracing their different backgrounds and experiences enable us to solve tough problems in creative ways, having fun along the way.

We’re boldly and relentlessly reinventing healthcare
We're curious and act big -- not afraid to knock down barriers or take calculated risks to change the world, one person at a time. 

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