Lead solution architect – patient peripheral platform

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.