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Senior Solution Architect

Vizient · Chicago, IL · $135,200–$236,600 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 5, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a technology or vendor evaluation you led. How did you reach a recommendation?

What they are checking: Whether they run fair proofs of concept with clear criteria rather than picking a favorite and justifying it.

Tell me about an architecture you designed that had to change after it was built. What did you learn?

What they are checking: Whether they can admit design mistakes and adapt their approach for future work.

What would you do

A product team wants to build a solution that doesn't follow the architectural standards. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they can enforce standards pragmatically and know when an exception is justified.

How do you explain an architectural tradeoff to business leaders who don't have a technical background?

What they are checking: Whether they can translate technical choices into cost, risk and speed terms leaders can decide on.

About the work

Walk me through a lakehouse architecture you'd design on Databricks to combine clinical, spend and operational data.

What they are checking: Whether they can design layers, domains and governance that integrate very different healthcare data sources.

How would you use Delta Lake and Unity Catalog to handle lineage, access and data quality?

What they are checking: Whether they understand how platform features support governance rather than treating it as separate work.

How would you architect a RAG solution over Vizient's data so it gives accurate, permission-aware answers?

What they are checking: Whether they handle retrieval quality, embeddings, access control and evaluation in generative AI design.

How do you design a semantic layer so different products report the same metric the same way?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that consistent definitions matter as much as pipelines for trustworthy analytics.

How do you plan for business continuity and disaster recovery in a cloud data platform?

What they are checking: Whether they consider recovery objectives and failure modes, not just the happy path.

How would you design observability for data pipelines and AI services across the platform?

What they are checking: Whether they plan for monitoring data freshness, quality and model behavior, not just system uptime.

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The full job description

As published by Vizient.

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves . We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. Responsibilities: • Lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex, cross-domain data, analytics, and AI products. • Define technical strategies and architectural blueprints for enterprise data and analytics platforms, with an emphasis on Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog. • Design scalable data architectures, pipelines, semantic layers, domain models, and data products that integrate clinical, spend, operational, and other enterprise data. • Establish architectural patterns and standards for scalability, performance, reliability, security, governance, data quality, observability, and business continuity. • Evaluate technologies and vendors, lead proofs of concept, and recommend solutions that support business priorities and long-term technology goals. • Design architectures for AI/ML and Generative AI capabilities, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, agents, and large language model orchestration. • Partner with product, engineering, data science, platform, and business clients to translate requirements into production-ready solutions and influence technology roadmaps and investment decisions. • Guide engineering teams in adopting architectural standards, frameworks, tools, and reusable solutions while balancing delivery needs with long-term sustainability. • Develop architecture diagrams, reference architectures, and technical documentation that clearly communicate designs, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences. • Mentor engineering teams and advocate for consistent architecture practices across products and the enterprise. Estimated Hiring Range: At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00. This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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