Principal Architect

About the role

Marathon Health is seeking a Principal Architect who is equally comfortable setting architectural strategy and rolling up their sleeves to build. This is not an ivory tower role: we need someone who can define the long-term technical vision on Monday and pair with an engineer on a complex integration problem on Tuesday. You will be our most senior technical voice across the enterprise, working in close partnership with Engineering, Data, Product, Security, and Clinical Operations leaders to shape practical, durable architecture decisions that teams can execute. You will drive architectural strategy across cloud infrastructure, real-time integrations, population health data systems, and emerging AI capabilities: and you will stay close enough to the work to know when the architecture is holding up and when it isn't. You will work closely with teammates to translate business strategy into durable, scalable technical decisions. The right person for this role leads by doing, not just by advising. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Enterprise Architecture Leadership Define and maintain Marathon Health's enterprise architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, and design principles across cloud, data, integration, and application layers. Lead solution design across multiple product and engineering teams, ensuring alignment to architectural standards, scalability requirements, and healthcare compliance obligations. Partner with Engineering leaders to review architecture proposals, facilitate cross-team technical decisions, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and ensure designs align to agreed standards, scalability needs, and healthcare compliance obligations. Personally deliver high-leverage technical work, such as reference implementations, complex cross-system integrations, and architecturally critical proofs-of-concept to validate strategic bets before teams commit to them at scale. Drive modernization of legacy systems in partnership with Technology and Product leadership, balancing technical debt reduction, delivery commitments, support burden, operational risk, and team capacity AI & Emerging Technology Lead the architecture and governance of Marathon's AI and machine learning capabilities, including agentic AI systems, LLM integrations, and clinical decision support tools. Evaluate and guide adoption of AI platforms, frameworks, and vendor tools (e.g., Anthropic, Snowflake Cortex, cloud-native ML services). Establish responsible AI architecture patterns including model evaluation frameworks, prompt governance, safety guardrails, and auditability. Partner with the VP of Data & Analytics and engineering teams to build AI-ready data infrastructure that supports real-time inference, population health analytics, and member engagement. Data Architecture & Population Health Own the enterprise data architecture strategy, including data modeling, lakehouse design, and governance frameworks on Snowflake and cloud-native platforms. Lead architecture for population health data systems: including eligibility, utilization, clinical, and engagement data: ensuring integrity, consistency, and actionability across the platform. Define the source-of-truth strategy across key systems (EHR, CRM, member portal, payer data) to eliminate data fragmentation and enable reliable analytics. Architect longitudinal patient data infrastructure that supports care team workflows, outcomes measurement, and value-based care reporting. Real-Time Integration & Interoperability Design and govern real-time and near-real-time integration architectures using HL7 FHIR, event-driven patterns, API gateways, and messaging platforms. Set architectural direction for Marathon's distributed systems foundation, service boundaries, data ownership, consistency models, and failure semantics, and ensure these patterns are documented, communicated, and adhered to across teams. Lead integration strategy across key systems including Athena Health (EHR), Salesforce, Conga, member portal, and health plan data feeds. Establish standards for data exchange with health plans, health systems, and employer clients: supporting claims data ingestion, eligibility feeds, and clinical data interoperability. Drive platform reliability and performance through resilient integration design, observability tooling, and SLA accountability. Health Plan & Health System Exp

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Marathon Health is a leading advanced primary care provider, partnering with employer and union plan sponsors to improve health for millions of Americans. With nationwide onsite, nearsite, and network health centers, and virtual primary care, Marathon delivers a value-based model that enhances the healthcare experience for members and providers, while driving meaningful cost savings for plan sponsors. Marathon is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work®, reflecting the company's commitment to building an inclusive, high-trust culture where all employees can thrive. Learn more at marathon.health

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