Senior Solution Architect

The US Oncology Network is looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our team at Texas Oncology.

As a part of The US Oncology Network, Texas Oncology delivers high-quality, evidence-based care to patients close to home. Texas Oncology is the largest community oncology provider in the country and has approximately 600+ providers in 280+ sites across Texas, our founders pioneered community-based cancer care because they believed in making the best available cancer care accessible to all communities, allowing people to fight cancer at home with the critical support of family and friends nearby. Our mission is still the same today-at Texas Oncology, we use leading-edge technology and research to deliver high-quality, evidence-based cancer care to help our patients achieve "More breakthroughs. More victories." in their fight against cancer. Today, Texas Oncology treats half of all Texans diagnosed with cancer on an annual basis.

The US Oncology Network is one of the nation's largest networks of community-based oncology physicians dedicated to advancing cancer care in America. The US Oncology Network is supported by McKesson Corporation focused on empowering a vibrant and sustainable community patient care delivery system to advance the science, technology, and quality of care.

What does the Senior Solution Architect do? Including but not limited to

The Solution Architect is a senior individual contributor role responsible for translating business, clinical, and technical requirements into cohesive, secure, and scalable solution designs across Texas Oncology. This role owns solution-level architecture for assigned initiatives, ensuring designs align with enterprise architecture standards, support long-term platform strategy, and are feasible to build and operate at scale.

Operating between Enterprise Architecture and delivery teams, the Solution Architect provides hands-on technical leadership during design and implementation, guiding system integration, data flows, application design, and non-functional requirements while enabling delivery teams to execute effectively.

The essential duties and responsibilities: including but not limited to:

Solution Architecture & Design Ownership

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for assigned initiatives, including application, integration, and data design.
• Translate business and clinical requirements into logical and physical architecture designs.
• Define non-functional requirements including security, scalability, performance, resilience, and supportability.

Enterprise Architecture Alignment

• Ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, architecture principles, and strategic roadmaps.
• Partner with Enterprise Architects on platform selection, reuse, and technology tradeoffs.
• Document architecture decisions, assumptions, and rationale.

Delivery & Implementation Enablement

• Provide technical guidance to delivery teams during build, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Review detailed designs and implementation artifacts for architectural compliance.
• Support production readiness, go-live planning, and handoff to operations.

Stakeholder & Vendor Collaboration

• Partner with analysts, product owners, and IT Project Managers to ensure clarity of intent and feasibility.
• Engage with vendors and implementation partners to ensure solutions meet design expectations.
• Communicate architectural concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in architecture reviews and governance forums.
• Identify opportunities to improve patterns, standards, and reusable assets.
• Contribute to maturation of solution architecture practices across IT.

The ideal candidate for the position will have the following background and experience:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8-10 years of experience in solution architecture or senior-level systems design roles.
• Strong experience designing enterprise applications, integrations, and data flows.
• Demonstrated ability to balance business needs with technical and architectural constraints.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare IT or regulated-industry experience.
• Experience with cloud, integration platforms, and enterprise data environments.
• Skilled in modern architecture patterns and SDLC methodologies.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be offered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus. Requires vision and hearing corrected to normal range.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be offered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is performed in an office environment. Involves frequent interaction with corporate and field staff, as well as external customers and contacts. Work may require some travel by air or automobile. Fantastic time-management skills with the ability to multi-task.