Architecture Director

CareSource • Dayton, OH

1d • $162,600 - $284,700 • Remote

About The Position

Define and champion technology architecture strategy in partnership with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT objectives. Act as a thought leader in identifying emerging technologies and innovative approaches that drive competitive advantage and organizational transformation. Collaborate with executive leadership to establish architecture principles, standards, and governance frameworks to guide IT initiatives. Lead the design and development of enterprise-wide architecture, ensuring solutions are functional, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. Solve the most complex architectural challenges, including those in troubled projects or critical domains, delivering outcomes that are on time and on budget. Develop reusable architectural patterns and frameworks to accelerate delivery and improve consistency across the organization. Ensure architectural designs meet current and future business needs while optimizing technical performance. Drive innovation by evaluating and implementing advanced technologies such as cloud-native architecture, AI, machine learning, and data analytics platforms. Establish proactive monitoring and synthetic testing practices to ensure system reliability and performance. Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve operational efficiency through modern architecture practices. Partner with cross-functional teams, including solution architects, engineering, and business stakeholders, to deliver high-impact solutions. Act as a mentor and advisor to architects and technical leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence. Represent CareSource in architecture-related discussions with external vendors and partners, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Ensure architectural designs adhere to regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, FISMA, and other applicable standards. Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed robust security and privacy practices into all architectural designs. Co-lead with Enterprise Architecture, all architecture review boards and enablement committees to drive governance and strategic alignment across IT initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, related field, or foreign degree equivalent.
• Ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience as a Software Developer, Application Architect, Software Engineer, Solution Architect, or related occupation, working on application performance improvement and software architecture design.
• At least 5 of these years must include Leveraging Angular, Spring, Mongo, and Kafka to collaborate with high level executives on complex enterprise problems to find architecture solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion technology architecture strategy in partnership with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT objectives.
• Act as a thought leader in identifying emerging technologies and innovative approaches that drive competitive advantage and organizational transformation.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to establish architecture principles, standards, and governance frameworks to guide IT initiatives.
• Lead the design and development of enterprise-wide architecture, ensuring solutions are functional, scalable, secure, and cost-effective.
• Solve the most complex architectural challenges, including those in troubled projects or critical domains, delivering outcomes that are on time and on budget.
• Develop reusable architectural patterns and frameworks to accelerate delivery and improve consistency across the organization.
• Ensure architectural designs meet current and future business needs while optimizing technical performance.
• Drive innovation by evaluating and implementing advanced technologies such as cloud-native architecture, AI, machine learning, and data analytics platforms.
• Establish proactive monitoring and synthetic testing practices to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve operational efficiency through modern architecture practices.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including solution architects, engineering, and business stakeholders, to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Act as a mentor and advisor to architects and technical leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Represent CareSource in architecture-related discussions with external vendors and partners, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Ensure architectural designs adhere to regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, FISMA, and other applicable standards.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed robust security and privacy practices into all architectural designs.
• Co-lead with Enterprise Architecture, all architecture review boards and enablement committees to drive governance and strategic alignment across IT initiatives.

Benefits

• In addition to base compensation, you may qualify for a bonus tied to company and individual performance.
• We are highly invested in every employee’s total well-being and offer a substantial and comprehensive total rewards package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director