Principal Application Architect

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

Summary

As an Principal Application Architect at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve — a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

At Gainwell, it’s easy to see the positive impact of what we do. The passion you bring to your career ultimately benefits the lives improved by services we provide to our clients. We encourage you to challenge yourself, learn and grow in a company that thrives on innovation. We go beyond entering new arenas to shaping markets with transformational experiences that redefine our business. The difference is clear.

Your role in our mission

• Requierements Validation (RV)

  The Domain Lead is responsible for defining and validating Provider+ functional requirements and ensuring requirements are complete, accurate, and testable.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and managing Provider+ functional requirements.
  • Leading requirement validation discussions and client review sessions.
  • Ensuring acceptance criteria and "How Requirement is Met" documentation are complete and accurate.
  • Maintaining requirement metadata, dependencies, system components, and configuration mapping.
  • Facilitating requirement demonstrations with project teams.
  • Reviewing and validating Business Process Models (BPMs).
  • Managing Business Rules Questionnaires to capture client-specific rules.
  • Tracking decisions, assumptions, risks, issues, and gaps.
  • Enforcing documentation quality, governance, and traceability standards.
  • Managing DEV environment readiness, smoke testing, and release validation.
  • Supporting Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) development.

  Design

  The Domain Lead drives solution design activities and ensures the proposed solution fully satisfies approved requirements.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Planning and facilitating design workshops and review sessions.
  • Managing completion of design documentation and business rule artifacts.
  • Coordinating design demonstrations and client reviews.
  • Addressing and resolving design comments and feedback.
  • Ensuring alignment across interfaces, reports, workflows, letters, and security components.
  • Supporting Product Change Requests (CRs) identified during requirements or design activities.
  • Creating Solution Design Documents (SDDs) as required.
  • Maintaining Configuration Workbooks and design artifacts.

  Build / Configuration

  The Domain Lead oversees domain configuration and ensures build activities align with approved designs and business requirements.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading Provider+ configuration planning and execution.
  • Overseeing configuration for enrollment, maintenance, revalidation, and related processes.
  • Ensuring configuration aligns with approved design and documented business rules.
  • Producing or validating unit testing outcomes.
  • Coordinating client-facing build demonstrations.
  • Governing configuration changes and change-control processes.

  System Integration Testing (SIT)

  The Domain Lead serves as the functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) during testing.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Reviewing test cases for requirement and acceptance criteria coverage.
  • Providing Provider+ SME support during SIT execution.
  • Supporting defect investigation, root cause analysis, and resolution.
  • Validating that fixes align with intended business outcomes.
  • Tracking resolution of functional gaps across Product and Implementation teams.

  User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

  The Domain Lead supports business validation activities and readiness for production.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Providing functional SME support during UAT.
  • Assisting with user questions, training validation, and defect resolution.
  • Verifying solution readiness against documented requirements.
  • Supporting retesting and final issue disposition activities.

  Operational Readiness Review (ORR)

  The Domain Lead contributes to organizational and operational preparedness for production deployment.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting environment, process, resource, and operational readiness activities.
  • Providing Provider+ input to client ORR reviews.
  • Supporting parallel and performance testing activities.
  • Assisting with cutover planning and transition-to-operations readiness.

  Cross-Phase Leadership Responsibilities

  Throughout the project lifecycle, the Domain Lead ensures continuity, governance, and alignment across all teams and deliverables.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Maintaining end-to-end traceability from requirements through testing.
  • Managing domain-level RAID logs, decisions, and action items.
  • Coordinating across Product, AD&I, Training, Testing, and Technical teams.
  • Supporting knowledge transfer activities, SOP development, and hypercare readiness.
  • Serving as the primary functional authority for the Provider+ domain from project initiation through go-live and stabilization.

What we're looking for

• Ten or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience.
• Experience working with:
  • Architecture framework methodologies such as TOGAF.
  • Software systems, applications, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Application design principles and product configurations.
  • Programming languages, databases, tooling, operating systems, infrastructure, and cloud technologies, as relative to any given Account.
  • Software development lifecycles and client requirements.
  • Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced personnel. 
  • Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, application development personnel and management.
  • Strongly Preferred – Enterprise Architecture experience within a Healthcare environment.
• Driving of Enterprise Architecture initiatives for large Accounts, State and Federal Accounts.
• Producing technical roadmaps, architecture diagrams, and supporting documentation.
• Conducting technical research, testing, and evaluation of complex IT systems.
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile.

What you should expect in this role

• United States remote opportunity
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
• The Deadline to submit applications for this posting is August 28, 2026

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The pay range for this position is $118,800.00 - $169,700.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.