Architecture / architect

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.

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. Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Uses appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.

Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement.

Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems

Manages expectations of customers, partners and management.

Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides 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:

Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field

Health insurance industry business knowledge

Professional Cloud Architect (Google)

Generative AI Leader (Google)

TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)

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. COBOL/JCL

GCP Cloud

Angular

Non-Relational Databases

CI/CD Pipelines

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:

Agile

Certification in application areas such as:

Java Developer

Architect(SCEA), Project Management

Language (Other than English)

Travel Requirement

Position Type: Office-based

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site: Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees): Physical work site required: It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

This job 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.

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.

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. 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.

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