Lead Architect
$118.4kHighmark Health
Company :
enGen
Job Description :
JOB SUMMARY
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Lead Enterprise Architect to drive technology strategy and innovation. This pivotal role is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing comprehensive architecture strategies across the enterprise, with a deep focus on industry-leading technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), API management, Integration Architecture, and Security Architecture.
The successful candidate will be instrumental in translating strategic intent into actionable architectural roadmaps, proactively reducing technical debt, and championing application rationalization initiatives to ensure scalable, cost-effective, and robust solutions. You will lead efforts to define and drive AI solution strategies, collaborating extensively with other architects to ensure cohesive designs that align with strategic objectives and foster seamless execution.
This role demands extensive experience within the healthcare payer industry, a strong understanding of emerging technologies, and the ability to provide strategic consultation and mentorship to less experienced team members. The Lead Enterprise Architect will leverage business and technology insights to enable and/or alter critical business processes, practices, organizations, and systems, directly contributing to our long-term strategic vision,
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead to 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 the most complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
Specify and design large or the most complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Lead reviews of 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 the most complex 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 the most complex architectures. Produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates 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 the most 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.
Lead the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
Communicate effectively will all levels of organization
Manage expectations of customers, partners and management
Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making
Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert 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 and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by:
Prepare presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise.
Present to their peers to ensure consistency to 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
7 years in an IT discipline
7 years n a Business discipline
Preferred
Health insurance industry business knowledge
Industry certifications such as TOGAF, along with certifications relevant to AI, API, Integration Architecture, Security Architecture, Java, PEGA
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
- None
Preferred
- Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management
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.
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 and/or Agile
SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Does this role supervise/manage other employees?
No
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Is Travel Required?
Yes
Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.
Compliance Requirement: This position adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.
As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company's Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy. Furthermore, it is every employee's responsibility to comply with the company's Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.
Pay Range Minimum:
$118,400.00
Pay Range Maximum:
$196,800.00
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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