Sr. Enterprise Architect - Hybrid
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Provide strategic consultation to business areas, working alongside them to construct roadmaps/blueprints outlining current areas of need as well as potential areas of growth. Devise strategies for leveraging current/future technology to best service our business partners while ensuring Information Technology's ability to support these initiatives.
Required Qualifications
5 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as architecture, application development, information analysis, IT management or operations) in a large IT environment
3 years of experience in a business-facing role (such as strategic business planning, business analysis, product owner, consultant or project management)
Associate’s degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience
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Preferred Qualifications
3 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role
3 years of experience in the Healthcare industry, especially the payer space
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field
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Essential Job Functions And Responsibilities
Establish enterprise standards, strategies, and roadmaps
Aid in creating the vision for future state technologies and architecture aligned to the company’s strategic vision
Responsible for documenting the current state and future state architecture using EA tools and templates
Champion application portfolio management activities including being an expert in the use of APM tools and processes and evangelizing the efficient use and adoption of APM across the company
Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability and manageability
Participate and lead research and development efforts including market research summaries, proofs of concept, prototypes, vendor assessments, and consultative summaries
Provide technical expertise to propose level of effort projections, work breakdown structures and technical resource planning for proposed and current work to support the Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Review Board (PRB) Processes
Educate and influence others in order to gain buy-in on proposed roadmaps, strategies, standards and solutions
Provide input to management throughout the project management lifecycle (PMLC)
Assist managers with developing the service level agreements (SLAs) and deployment of key performance measures
Participate in architectural review functions and ensure adherence to technology standards and architecture
Review current state architectures for improvement opportunities, portfolio rationalization and alignment with strategic plans and architectures
Facilitate communications between IT teams and business stakeholders for technical issues and/or major changes; acting as the technical domain subject matter expert
Provide expertise to educate, coach and mentor team members; provide performance feedback to manager(s)
Keep current and informed of domain related technologies and best practices
This position has an onsite expectation of 1 day per week and requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any overtime as requested or needed to perform job responsibilities
Perform all other duties as assigned
Required Competencies
Intermediate skill in use of office equipment, including copiers, fax machines, scanner and telephones
Intermediate PC proficiency
Intermediate proficiency in spreadsheet, database and word processing software
Customer focused with strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact professionally at all levels of the organization including executives
Integrity and Trust
Able to teach others and explain complex concepts with clarity, educating through knowledge sharing presentations and written documents
Able to be self-aware and emotionally intelligent, able to give and receive constructive feedback and continue self-development
Demonstrated understanding of modern enterprise architecture
Strong knowledge of IT systems, practices and functional units
Strong knowledge of application development, infrastructure and operations
Able to be approachable and develop healthy working relationships across a diverse team
Able to assess a situation, make critical observations and take appropriate risks, using available information
Anticipate downstream technical needs and steer architectural designs to appropriately factor in considerations
Strong analytical skills to support independent and effective decisions
Be driven for results and work effectively with management, project managers, analysts, developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, and testers to conceive, design, and deliver successful solutions
Preferred Competencies
Expert knowledge designing highly redundant, scalable, multi-tier enterprise transaction processing systems from front end to back end
Experience with cloud architecture
Knowledge of HIPAA security and privacy standards
In depth knowledge of healthcare and health plan operations, products, data structures, business processes and workflows