Application Architect Executive

Elevance Health•Atlanta, GA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Application Architect Executive creates architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design. Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment. Drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation. Establishes overall architecture vision for the platform and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged. Contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture. Understands the construction of platform architecture components and is accountable for overseeing the architecture solution design. Coordinates all platform-level conceptual architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture). Defines, communicates and drives security architecture design and monitors compliance to enterprise-level architectural standards. Defines systems, technical and application architectures for new strategic initiatives. Develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies. Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.

Requirements

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years of experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

Experience in health care industry strongly preferred.
Experience with monolithic, layered, service-oriented, and microservices architectures.
Knowledge of event-driven architecture, API-first design, and distributed systems and understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or infrastructure automation is preferred.
Experience with message brokers or event platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or AWS SNS/SQS.
Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL and testing frameworks such as JUnit, NUnit, xUnit, Jest, PyTest, or similar.
Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, or Cassandra.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Experience with software development frameworks such as Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, React, Angular, or similar.
Programming skills in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or Go.

Responsibilities

Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment.
Drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.
Establishes overall architecture vision for the platform and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged.
Contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.
Understands the construction of platform architecture components and is accountable for overseeing the architecture solution design.
Coordinates all platform-level conceptual architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).
Defines, communicates and drives security architecture design and monitors compliance to enterprise-level architectural standards.
Defines systems, technical and application architectures for new strategic initiatives.
Develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies.
Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.