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HealthPartners is currently hiring an Enterprise Integration Architect. This role is responsible for defining the overall architecture of HealthPartners' applications across web platforms, administrative systems, infrastructure, and data environments. The Enterprise Architect ensures that application development and enhancements align with HealthPartners' strategic goals and integrate smoothly within the broader technical landscape.

The Architect connects systems and platforms across a complex healthcare technology environment, including EHRs, health plan administrative systems, cloud services, internal applications, external vendors, and health information exchanges. The role focuses on designing and governing enterprise integration and interoperability while ensuring alignment with regulatory and industry standards. Serving as a technical bridge, the Architect partners with business teams, internal technology groups, and external vendors to shape integration approaches that are scalable, compliant, and fit for enterprise use.

This role is grounded in hands-on software engineering and integration development experience. The ideal candidate has built and operated integration solutions at scale, implementing APIs, messaging pipelines, and event-driven systems. They engage with development teams as a technical peer, design integration patterns with practical implementation detail, and own the standards and governance that ensure integrations are reliable, secure, and maintainable over time.

This is a replacement position following the departure of a long-tenured employee. The role reports to the Director of IT Enterprise Architecture and is part of a collaborative team of five professionals, including four full-time employees and one contractor.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Twelve (12+) years of progressive experience in software engineering, including:
  • Three (3) years of hands-on integration development 
  • Four (4) years of architectural accountability
  • Four (4) years of project management experience
• Experience in healthcare IT environments (payer, provider, or health system).
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate software development, documentation, or workflows.
• Software engineering foundation: Direct experience building integration solutions - implementing REST APIs, message-based integrations, ETL/ELT pipelines, or event-driven systems in production environments using languages such as Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Healthcare interoperability: Working knowledge of HL7 FHIR (R4), HL7 v2, and X12 EDI healthcare transaction standards.
• Familiarity with integration security patterns - OAuth 2.0, SMART on FHIR, mTLS, API key management, and PHI-aware data handling.
• Business engagement skills: Demonstrated ability to work directly with business stakeholders - leading requirements discovery, translating operational data exchange needs into integration architecture, and validating that integration solutions reflect business intent throughout delivery.
• Strong analytical and communication skills - able to decompose complex integration requirements and convey designs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency with back-end and front-end technologies and frameworks. 
• Proficiency in database technology and modeling.
• Effective communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences using verbal and written forms.
• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experienced with Linux, AIX, Windows, Oracle, and SQL servers. 
• Familiarity with Java frameworks such as Spring Boot and Python API frameworks such as fastAPI.
• Familiarity with Event Driven Architectural models and approaches. 
• Hands-on experience with one or more integration platforms: Kafka, Azure Integration Services, InterSystems HealthShare, Rhapsody, or equivalent.

Hours/Location:

• M-F; core business hours
• This is a hybrid role with an expectation of being onsite 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Establish integration design standards: API design guidelines, message schema governance, error handling patterns, retry and idempotency strategies, and versioning policies.
• Architect event-driven and streaming integration patterns for real-time data exchange across clinical, operational, and analytical systems.
• Lead HealthPartners' healthcare interoperability architecture - defining implementation strategy for HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, X12 EDI, and CCDA across care and plan domains.
• Apply direct integration development experience to guide implementation teams - reviewing integration code, message transformation logic, API implementations, and pipeline designs with technical depth.
• Champion integration observability - distributed tracing, message tracking, alerting, and structured logging as non-negotiable requirements in integration design.
• Review integration designs for major programs - ensuring soundness, security, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standards before development begins.
• Maintain an enterprise integration catalog - documenting active interfaces, owners, protocols, and dependencies to reduce shadow integration and improve operational transparency.
• Translate CMS, ONC, and HIPAA requirements related to data exchange and interoperability into architectural requirements and roadmap items.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, and the Data Governance team to ensure integration patterns and data flows satisfy regulatory obligations.
• Engage business and operational stakeholders across care, plan, research, and shared services to understand their data exchange needs, workflow pain points, and strategic integration goals - before solutions are scoped.
• Lead requirements discovery sessions with business owners to surface integration needs, identify system-of-record questions, and define what "done" looks like from a business outcome perspective.
• Validate throughout delivery that integration solutions being built accurately reflect business intent - catching mismatches between what the business asked for and what is being implemented and driving resolution early.
• Participate in initiative planning and roadmap discussions, ensuring integration architecture considerations are surfaced when business programs are being defined, not retrofitted after scope is set.
• Bridge the gap between regulatory mandates (CMS, ONC) and business operations - helping business stakeholders understand what interoperability requirements mean for their processes, timelines, and vendor relationships.
• Support vendor assessments - evaluating integration capabilities, interoperability certifications (ONC, CMS), and API maturity of prospective technology partners.
• Performs other work as assigned.

At HealthPartners we believe in the power of good - good deeds and good people working together. As part of our team, you'll find an inclusive environment that encourages new ways of thinking, celebrates differences, and recognizes hard work.

We're a nonprofit, integrated health care organization, providing health insurance in six states and high-quality care at more than 90 locations, including hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together research and education through HealthPartners Institute, training medical professionals across the region and conducting innovative research that improve lives around the world.

At HealthPartners, everyone is welcome, included and valued. We're working together to increase diversity and inclusion in our workplace, advance health equity in care and coverage, and partner with the community as advocates for change.

Benefits Designed to Support Your Total Health
As a HealthPartners colleague, we're committed to nurturing your diverse talents, valuing your dedication, and supporting your work-life balance. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits to support every aspect of your life, including health, time off, retirement planning, and continuous learning opportunities. Our goal is to help you thrive physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially, so you can continue delivering exceptional care.

Join us in our mission to improve the health and well-being of our patients, members, and communities.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identify, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.