Architect

Company : enGen Job Description : JOB SUMMARY 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. Ensures completeness of architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders. Ensures integrity of architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade‑offs made in so doing. Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to develop. Leverage business and technology knowledge to enable and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations and systems. Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices. 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. Facilitate development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development. Specify and design large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively. Review others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establish policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on major design options. Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translate these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly. Select and use tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non‑functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieving improvement. Ensure the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems. Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization. Manage expectations of customers, partners and management. Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk‑throughs; and problem resolution and decision making. Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including developing and interpreting complex requirements for peers and other staff. Maintain an in‑depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provide advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area. Provide leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad‑hoc training by preparing presentations on complex issues in the area of expertise and presenting to peers to ensure consistency with Highmark's strategic direction. Other duties as assigned or requested. EDUCATION Required Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field Substitutions none 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 An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs. 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 COBOL, Visual Basic, 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 Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. 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. For accommodation requests, please contact HR Services Online at View email address on click.appcast.io #J-18808-Ljbffr