Application Architect

At Zelis we Get Stuff Done. So lets get to it!

A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers providers and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers including the top five national health plans regional health plans TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify optimize and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts driving real measurable results for clients.

At Zelis AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo accelerate innovation and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility embrace change and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions exceptional experiences and the future of our industry for our clients customers and our culture.

A Little About You

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences community involvement and the valuable lessons youve learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements the knowledge youve gained and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview

The ideal candidate brings deepexpertisein distributed systems API design and platform engineering along with a pragmatic approach to driving incremental business-aligned transformation. They will lead by examplewriting code contributing to system design and guiding teams through complex technical challenges while introducing best practices for containerization CI/CD observability and resilient system design.

Operating in a highly secure high-volume 24x7 transactional environment this role will influence architecture and elevate engineering practices across the organization. While this is not apeoplemanagement role it requires strong leadership through influencementoring engineers partnering with engineering managers and helping teams adopt modern development approaches including AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Success in this role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution with the ability to turn long-term architectural vision into tangible progress. This individual will be instrumental in accelerating our platform transformation by building alongside teams improving developer experience and enabling scalable sustainable growth.

WhatYoullDo

• Partner with engineering leadership to define and execute an applicationmodernization strategy evolving from a monolithic architecture to scalable cloud-native services

• Contribute directly to the design and development of critical components across engineering pods including APIs services and shared platform capabilities

• Lead the decomposition of core systems into modular service-orientedor event-driven architectures

• Embed with teams to guide and implement best practices for building deploying and operating services in AWS (containers CI/CD observability resilience)

• Establish and standardize patterns for APIs reusable engines and platform services to enable consistency and scale

• Identifyand drive incremental modernization opportunities that reduce risk while delivering measurable business value

• Mentor engineers and engineering managers through hands-on collaboration design reviews and pairing

• Partner cross-functionally with product platform and operations teams to align technical direction with business priorities

• Champion modern development practices including AI-enabled engineering workflows (e.g. GitHub Copilot Claude Code Cursor) to improve developer productivity

WhatYoullBring to Zelis

• 10 years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on development in backend systems and distributed architectures

• Proven experience actively contributing to the decomposition of monolithic applications into microservices or modular architectures

• Must haveexperience with AWS and cloud-native development (compute storage networking and managed services)

• Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable APIs event-driven systems and platform services

• Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker) and modern deployment practices (CI/CD pipelines)

• Track recordof influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority

• Strong communicationskills with the ability to drive alignment through practical actionable guidance

• Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with hands-on execution and incremental delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or contributing hands-on to large-scale cloud migrations or platform modernization initiatives

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes ECS) and infrastructure-as-code practices

• Development experiencehelpfulusingC# or Java

• Experience working on payments platforms or other high-scale transactional systems

• Exposure to communications platforms (messaging notifications real-time systems physical print production)

• Experience building shared platforms internal developer tooling or enabling paved road solutions

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI capabilities into engineering workflows or products

• Background in platform engineering developer experience or multi-team enablement at scale

• Experienceoperatingin regulatedand/or high-availability environments

What This Role Is Not

• Not a people management rolethis position leads through hands-on contribution and influence not direct reports

• Not purely architectural or advisorythis role requires active coding design and delivery alongside teams

• Not a short-term migration effortthis role focuses on building sustainable long-term platform capabilities

• Not isolated to a single team or domainsuccess depends on working across multiple pods and systems

• Not a rewrite everything initiativethis role emphasizes pragmatic incremental modernization

• Not limited to infrastructurethis role spans application architecture platform design and developer experience

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

Zelis is headquartered in the U.S. with multiple locations across the country and in Hyderabad India. Check out our locations to learn more about our offices. All employee work locations are based on the needs of the position and are determined by the Leadership -office work and activities vary based on work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

While location expectations vary by role candidates within approximately 50 miles of a U.S. office are generally preferred to support collaboration when needed. Our hybrid approach is flexible and in-office presence is guided by team and business needs rather than a fixed weekly schedule.

Base Salary Range

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors including experience education qualifications as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package which may also include discretionary bonus plans commissions or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well which demonstrates our commitment to our employees health well-being and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match flexible paid time off holidays parental leaves life and disability insurance and health benefits including medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you dont meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.

Accessibility Support
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process please email .

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities duties and skills from time to time.