Director of Solutions Architecture

The Director of Solutions Architecture will serve as the strategic technical leader driving the architectural vision, platform engineering, and technical roadmap for Santechture's suite of Healthtech and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) products.

This role bridges enterprise business strategy and execution, leading engineering teams and architects to design scalable, secure, and high-performance software systems. The role ensures our core platforms seamlessly integrate with regional healthcare clearinghouses (e.g., KSA/NPHIES, UAE/DHA/DOH/Riayati, Qatar/QHIS), provider health systems (EHR/HIS), and predictive data/AI models while maintaining strict regulatory compliance across the GCC.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Architecture & Technical Leadership
• Define and execute the long-term technical architecture and technology roadmap across all product lines (SaaS platforms, rules engines, integration layers).
• Drive the evolution of enterprise architecture—transitioning legacy frameworks to modern, cloud-native microservices architectures.
• Evaluate and select technology stacks, cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/GCP), framework components, and third-party tools to optimize performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted coding practices across the engineering organization to accelerate delivery, enforce design consistency, and elevate solution quality.
• 2. Engineering Governance & Delivery
• Lead, mentor, and scale cross-functional software development, DevOps, and quality engineering teams across regional offices.
• Validate solution feasibility, design choices, dependencies and impact analysis
• Establish robust engineering practices, including code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and secure coding standards.
• Collaborate closely with Program Management (PMO) and Product Management to ensure sprint commitments, release timelines, and quality benchmarks are consistently met.
• 3. Healthcare Domain & Integration Standards
• Oversee the architectural design of integrations with Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Health Records (EHR), and government healthcare platforms (NPHIES, Malaffi, Nabidh, etc.).
• Ensure system architectures accommodate complex medical billing rules, claims validation algorithms, and real-time data processing requirements.
• 4. Security, Compliance & Data Governance
• Guarantee that system architectures strictly comply with regional health data residency laws (UAE Health Data Law, KSA DPDP/NDMO) and international cybersecurity standards (ISO 27001, HIPAA).
• Direct data protection strategies, end-to-end encryption, disaster recovery protocols, and role-based access controls across all production environments.
• 5. Innovation & AI Integration

C) Technical Skills D) Strategic & Personal Attributes: E) Leadership & Soft Skills: Preferred Qualifications

• Partner with the Data Analytics team to architect solutions that integrate Machine Learning (ML) and predictive analytics directly into core product workflows.
• Keep abreast of emerging Healthtech trends, AI methodologies, and cloud engineering innovations to keep the company's solutions ahead of market standards.
• Job Requirements:
• Professional Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• B) Experience:
• 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and enterprise software architecture.
• 5+ years in a senior leadership role (Director/Head of Engineering/Chief Architect) managing multi-disciplinary development teams.
• Demonstrated background in the Healthcare IT / Healthtech / RCM domain, with strong familiarity with healthcare data exchange standards (HL7, FHIR, EHR, Health Information Excahnge (HIE)
• Deep expertise in Cloud Architecture (GCP/AWS/Azure), Microservices, RESTful APIs, and Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
• Advanced knowledge of modern backend & frontend frameworks, database technologies (Relational SQL & NoSQL), and data warehousing solutions.
• Proven experience with DevOps methodologies, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong AI and Modern Technology Innovation skills
• Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and decisive execution capabilities.
• Ability to lead and build trust across regional offices in a matrixed environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex technical architectures into strategic value for non-technical executive leadership.
• Excellent Communication skills (English / Arabic)
• Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and decisive leadership.
• Proven ability to operate effectively within a program matrix structure across multiple regional locations (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Egypt).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical executive leadership.
• Experience leading technical teams through rapid organizational scaling or international expansion.
• TOGAF or AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect (Professional Level) certification.