Exciting Senior Solutions Design opportunity with our healthcare client. This is to join the National Products team aligning business strategy with Technology Execution. 
We need healthcare functional domain knowledge, solution architecture expertise, excellent communication skills and the ability to partner closely with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure and innovative solutions.

Contract Duration: 12 months and may extend
This role is Hybrid with 25% of the time in the office, and the rest is remote. 

• 5+ years of experience with Health Care plan/Payor
• Specific Systems Knowledge Preferred: Health plan systems
• Top 3 things you will be doing:

• Functional requirements and logical design,
• Business requirements analysis
• Hand-over and Support for IT Engineering and Testing

Required Skills & Experience

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders.
• Strong technical expertise across current platforms and technologies.
• Proven experience in consultative roles working with business teams to define and deliver solutions.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in solution architecture within business or functional projects.
• Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and methodologies (Nice to have)
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile, DevOps, and industry best practices.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and Problem Solving skills.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience in healthcare
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Lucid, and Confluence

What You Will Be Doing
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnership

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and define long term technology roadmaps and architectural vision.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Act as a trusted advisor by translating complex business requirements into clear technical solutions.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, including both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Technical Leadership

• Guide project teams to ensure alignment with KP architectural standards and best practices.
• Conduct design reviews and ensure technical artifacts are sound and high Quality.

Risk Management

• Identify technical risks throughout the project lifecycle and communicate potential impacts proactively.

Innovation & Emerging Technologies

• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies—including Digital, AI, and Cloud—to drive business innovation and enhanced capabilities.

Daily Responsibilities
Value Stream Solution Delivery

• Support definition of solution and functional requirements to ensure workstreams have clarity across all stages of delivery.
• Participate in business requirements definition and solution impact analysis.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to support business strategy.
• Break down business requirements into features, scalable components, and user stories.
• Maintain traceability between requirements and solution components, including management of Jira stories.
• Develop logical solution design artifacts such as diagrams and logical solution design document at the initiative level.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., PI planning, syncs, solution demos).
• Communicate functional/non-functional requirements and solution designs across workstreams to ensure alignment and clarity of enhancements required.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to resolve integration issues.
• Collaborate with IT Design Leads across value streams to maintain consistency and alignment of solution.
• Provide input on testing strategy and review test cases as needed.
• Support consolidation of design documentation into initiative-level architecture artifacts (e.g., Solution Architecture Description document).
• Escalate risks, blockers, or design conflicts to IT Design Principal and IT leadership when necessary.