• Collaborate with pharmacy operations, TPA business units, product managers, and IT teams to translate complex functional requirements into high-level solution designs. • Lead the rigorous evaluation and selection of third-party healthcare solutions, including Pharmacy Management Systems (PMS). • Implement technical solutions for benefits validation, ensuring real-time eligibility checks and automated data analysis to minimize the risk of ineligible 340B claims. • Design end-to-end architectures for patient outreach that automate referral tracking, specialist engagement, and improve patient retention and keep patients in care. • Assess vendor solutions against key criteria: functionality, total cost of ownership (TCO), scalability, security, HIPAA compliance, and integration capabilities. • Define integration patterns (APIs, middleware), data flows, and security controls to ensure third-party systems talk seamlessly to our internal engineering platforms leveraging HL7, FHIR and NCPDP. • Produce and maintain architecture artifacts, including system diagrams, decision logs, and risk assessments. • Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks associated with third-party systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements including SLA’s, Disaster Recovery (DR) requirements, and data portability. • Act as a trusted advisor to the CTO and leadership team, presenting solution options and trade-offs in clear, strategic language.