Senior Software Architect
Overland Park, KS
IT – IT /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Your Quest: Build the software products that improve healthcare access
At Quest Analytics, our mission is to make healthcare more accessible for all Americans. As a Senior Software Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platforms. This position is responsible for designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions that align with product goals and long-term business strategy. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to address complex technical challenges, guide architectural decisions, and ensure engineering teams are empowered to deliver high-quality software efficiently.
This role is both strategic and hands-on: you will define architectural standards, mentor engineers, and actively participate in architectural reviews across teams and departments. You will also evaluate emerging technologies and tools to drive innovation and continuous improvement across our platform.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience in designing distributed systems, a strong background in Agile product development, and a passion for enabling teams through clear guidance, documentation, and mentorship. Experience in healthcare technology will prove to be beneficial.
In this role you will:
- Partner with others in the design and architecture of our platforms, focusing on product needs, solution quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance
- Work to overcome the biggest technology challenges we and our customers face
- Develop and implement processes to enable engineering teams to receive efficient and effective architectural guidance
- Enable engineering teams through mentoring and documenting architectural patterns and best practices
- Actively participate in architectural reviews across teams and departments
- Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies to address challenges and advance our platform
- Assist with long-term planning and innovation, focused on business needs and growth
- Participate in the training and/or mentoring programs as assigned or required
- Adhere to the Quest Analytics Values and support a positive company culture
- Respond to the needs and requests of clients and Quest Analytics management and staff in a professional and expedient manner
You will need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 10+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in architecture roles
- Deep expertise in cloud-native, event-driven architectures (Azure preferred; AWS acceptable)
- Strong C# development skills, including asynchronous and parallel programming
- Experience with high-volume, multi-tenant, client-facing systems
- Proficiency with relational databases (Azure SQL or other cloud-hosted) and modern data platforms (Snowflake; Databricks a plus)
- Skilled in REST API design and integration, Docker/Kubernetes, and single-page app frameworks (React or Angular)
- Familiarity with AI orchestration, model evaluation, and RAG (Snowflake Cortex, Azure AI Foundry a plus)
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities
- Background in healthcare technology preferred
What you’ll appreciate:
•Workplace flexibility – you choose between remote, hybrid or in-office
•Company paid employee medical, dental and vision
•Competitive salary and success sharing bonus
•Flexible vacation with no cap, plus sick time and holidays
•An entrepreneurial culture that won’t limit you to a job description
•Being listened to, valued, appreciated -- and having your contributions rewarded
•Enjoying your work each day with a great group of people
Apply TODAY!
About Quest Analytics
For more than 20 years, we’ve been improving provider network management one groundbreaking innovation at a time. 90% of America’s health plans use our tools, including the eight largest in the nation. Achieve your personal quest to build a great career here.
Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.
Preferred work locations are within one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois (outside of Chicago proper), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, or Wyoming.
Quest Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce environment that is free from any form of discriminations or harassment.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence hr@questanalytics.com
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