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About the Role:
Netsmart is seeking a Lead Software Architect, Cloud & AI Modernization to support our Post-Acute engineering organization. This role will help guide architecture across complex healthcare technology solutions that support providers, clinicians, and communities across post-acute care.
We are looking for a software architecture leader who can work close to the development teams, understand existing application architecture, and help modernize products as Netsmart continues to scale cloud-based and AI-enabled capabilities. This person should bring a strong software development foundation, practical AWS/cloud knowledge, DevOps partnership experience, and the ability to operate effectively across a matrixed organization.
This role is onsite in Overland Park, KS, and candidates must live in or relocate to the Greater Kansas City metro area.
What You'll Do:
• Lead architecture strategy and technical design for Post-Acute applications and platforms.
• Work hands-on with engineering teams to evaluate current-state architecture, identify modernization opportunities, and guide practical execution.
• Support legacy application modernization through modular architecture, API design, service decomposition, cloud migration patterns, and scalable engineering practices.
• Partner with DevOps, Hosting, Cloud, Security, Product, UX, and engineering leaders to align architecture decisions with delivery needs and operational realities.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, architecture documentation, proof-of-concepts, and reusable patterns.
• Guide engineering teams on AWS architecture, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Identify opportunities to responsibly integrate AI, automation, analytics, or data-driven features into Post-Acute products and workflows.
• Translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations for business, product, and technology leaders.
• Help teams balance modernization goals with client commitments, regulatory expectations, quality, and production stability.
• Promote engineering standards that improve maintainability, scalability, reliability, and speed of delivery
What You'll Bring

• Strong software engineering background with experience as a Software Architect, Lead Engineer, Technical Lead, Senior Architect, or similar role.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale application development and modernization.
• Experience working with legacy applications and helping teams evolve them toward more scalable, cloud-enabled architecture.
• Strong understanding of AWS, cloud-native patterns, distributed systems, APIs, microservices or modular architecture, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps practices.
• Experience in one or more relevant development ecosystems such as Java, .NET, C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar enterprise technologies.
• Ability to earn credibility with engineers by connecting architecture direction to real development and operational realities.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence without direct authority in a matrixed environment.
• Interest in AI, machine learning, automation, or data-driven product capabilities, with a practical view of how to bring those capabilities into production responsibly.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Must be onsite in Overland Park, KS.

Preferred Experience

• Healthcare technology, EHR, clinical workflow, human services, post-acute, care management, or regulated industry experience.
• Experience modernizing complex enterprise applications in AWS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, event-driven systems, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Exposure to AI/ML, LLMs, MLOps, responsible AI, or intelligent automation within enterprise software.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to translate client or market needs into technical architecture.

What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means you help Post-Acute engineering teams modernize thoughtfully while continuing to deliver reliable, meaningful healthcare technology. You bring clarity to complex architecture decisions, partner well across the organization, and help teams strengthen cloud readiness, development practices, DevOps alignment, and future AI-enabled product capabilities.
Why Netsmart
At Netsmart, you will help build technology that truly matters. This role offers the opportunity to shape modern, cloud-enabled and AI-aware healthcare technology in a mission-driven organization where innovation supports providers, clinicians, clients, and communities every day.
Netsmart is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates. All employment decisions at Netsmart, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion and transfer, are based on performance, qualifications, abilities, education and experience. Netsmart does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
Netsmart desires to provide a healthy and safe workplace and, as a government contractor, Netsmart is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal law. Pursuant to Netsmart policy, all post-offer candidates are required to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, including a drug screen, which is provided at Netsmart's sole expense. In the event a candidate tests positive for a controlled substance, Netsmart will rescind the offer of employment unless the individual can provide proof of valid prescription to Netsmart's third party screening provider.
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