Senior Software Architect

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

PointClickCare is a leading North American healthcare technology platform dedicated to meaningful care collaboration and real-time patient insights. With over 20 years of experience, we aim to create a world where providers and plans can confidently deliver frictionless care. Our growth has been exponential, with over 2,200 employees impacting millions across North America. Recognized by Forbes as a top 100 private cloud company and by Waterstone Human Capital as having one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, PointClickCare leads in cloud-based healthcare software.

We offer a wealth of opportunities and a vibrant culture that empowers our employees. Our dynamic environment is the perfect place to advance your career while engaging in meaningful work alongside incredible colleagues. Here, your talents can thrive, your career can grow, and your work will have a lasting impact on healthcare across North America. We believe work is profoundly fulfilling when driven by a higher purpose. Join us and be part of a team making a real impact.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Architect, you are driven, possess a high degree of discipline, and can deliver robust solutions for complex, large-scale, and data-intensive platform systems. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable, high-performance software and platform solutions that address the whole business problem.

You will drive the technical feasibility analysis for projects to identify and mitigate technical risks. Your expertise in selecting appropriate technologies and frameworks will drive innovation and shape the overall architecture, ensuring it aligns with business and technical goals. You will bring a deep understanding of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and platform design patterns to architect foundational components that support AI and analytics workloads at scale.

Throughout the development process, you will lead and mentor engineering teams, ensuring the successful implementation of the architectural design. Your ability to define the strategic architecture vision will be essential in aligning the software architecture with the overall organization technology strategy, driving its success in a fast-paced competitive market.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex and ambiguous business requirements into robust, scalable platform and data architecture designs.
• Assess the technical feasibility of new projects and help engineering teams solve their most difficult technical challenges, particularly in areas of big data pipelines, stream processing, and system scalability.
• Understand and contribute to the long-term platform and data architecture strategy and teach others about it.
• Design for non-functional requirements including maintainability, efficiency, scalability, observability, availability, and security.
• Estimate resources required for a proposed design and optimize plans for cost, performance, or other attributes.
• Help to review design proposals from others.
• Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes, and testing procedures.
• Research new software, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations and proofs of concept. Stay current with advances in AI infrastructure, big data processing technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake), and modern data platform architectures.
• Define best practices, patterns, and guidelines in coding and system design.
• Review designs and code to ensure compliance with best practices.

Company Information

PointClickCare is a leading North American healthcare technology platform. We are focused on enabling meaningful care collaboration and real-time patient insights. Our mission is to help create a world where providers and plans can confidently deliver frictionless care. We are recognized by Forbes as one of the top 100 private cloud companies and by Waterstone Human Capital as having one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures.

Learn more about us by checking out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.