Architect

Job Title

This job, within area of expertise (application, solution, information, technology, business), designs, develops, implements, supports, and optimizes architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements.
• Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
• Selects and uses tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
• Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems.
• Communicates effectively with all levels of organization.
• Manages expectations of customers, partners and management.
• Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk-throughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
• Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of complex requirements for peers and other staff.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application.
• Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Education

Required: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or closely related field

Preferred: Master's degree

Experience

Required: 3 years of experience in an IT discipline

Preferred: None

Licenses or Certifications

Required: None

Preferred: Industry certifications, Health insurance industry business knowledge, Professional Cloud Architect (Google), Generative AI Leader (Google), TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)

Skills

Preferred Skills:

• COBOL/JCL
• GCP Cloud
• Agentic AI/MCP
• Event-Streaming (Kafka, MQ)
• Domain-Driven Design
• C4 Diagramming
• Spring Boot
• Angular
• Non-Relational Databases
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing
• COBAL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS
• Java/JavaScript Framework
• PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML
• Project Management Tools: Waterfall, Agile
• Certification in application areas such as: Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management

Language (Other than English)

None

Travel Requirement

0% - 25%

Physical, Mental Demands and Working Conditions

Position Type: Office-based

Teaches / trains others regularly: Occasionally

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site: Occasionally

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees): Never

Physical work site required: Yes

Pay Range

Pay Range Minimum: $86,400.00

Pay Range Maximum: $138,600.00

Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate's qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets.

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