Enterprise Architect

BB Insights•Pittsburgh, PA

20d

About The Position

Blackbuck Insights, LLC is seeking a highly experienced Lead Enterprise Healthcare Architect to drive technology strategy and innovation. The role designs, develops, and optimizes enterprise architecture strategies, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI), API management, integration architecture, and security architecture. The architect translates strategic intent into actionable roadmaps, reduces technical debt, and leads application rationalization to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and resilient solutions. The role also defines AI solution strategies and collaborates with other architects to develop cohesive designs aligned with strategic objectives. The position requires extensive healthcare payer industry experience, knowledge of emerging technologies, and the ability to provide strategic consultation and mentorship. It uses business and technology insights to enable or transform critical processes, organizational capabilities, and systems in support of the long-term strategic vision. The role provides strategic consultation to business stakeholders; contributes to enterprise strategy and business architecture; designs complex systems and solutions; establishes architecture policies and standards; and guides system development and integration. It also leads requirements and improvement initiatives, including AI strategy, API management, integration and security architecture, application rationalization, and technical-debt reduction. The architect leads complex challenges, engages stakeholders across the organization, and coaches and mentors architects, developers, management, and business users. The position is described as remote / hybrid. The supplied posting ends at the heading “Experience” and does not provide further experience details.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a closely related field; no education substitutions are specified.
Extensive healthcare payer industry experience.
Strong understanding of emerging technologies.
Ability to provide strategic consultation and mentorship.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic consultation to business stakeholders on business processes, functions, and organizational structures.
Research, identify, and champion technologies that meet customer capability requirements.
Facilitate development of complex enterprise business solutions using knowledge of business processes, operational challenges, technology options, and process-facilitation techniques.
Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value-case development, and business innovation portfolio planning.
Use business and technology insights to enable or transform critical processes, practices, organizational capabilities, and systems.
Specify and design large-scale, complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, and processes.
Select design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively across architecture and delivery teams.
Lead system design reviews to validate technology selection, efficient resource use, system integration, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Establish policies for selecting architecture components and conduct impact analyses for major design options.
Ensure system architectures balance functional requirements, service quality, security, operability, and systems-management requirements.
Use appropriate tools and component and interface models to develop complex architectures and translate requirements into detailed implementation designs.
Provide expert guidance on system development and integration, including change requests, deviations from specifications, and adherence to strategies, policies, standards, and practices.
Select and apply tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate functional and non-functional requirements, user characteristics, and business tasks.
Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environments in which complex products and systems will operate.
Identify, propose, initiate, and lead improvement programs, taking accountability for work quality, solution appropriateness, and measurable business benefits.
Modify existing process-improvement approaches or develop new methods to achieve sustainable improvement.
Lead AI solution strategy, API management, integration architecture, security architecture, application rationalization, and technical-debt reduction initiatives.
Lead resolution of complex architecture and business challenges and serve as technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
Communicate with all levels of the organization and manage expectations across customers, partners, and management.
Participate in customer walkthroughs, planning sessions, design and technical reviews, problem resolution, and decision-making activities.
Collaborate across departments, including developing and interpreting complex requirements for peers and other staff.
Maintain in-depth knowledge of designated technical domains and provide expert advice on their application.
Provide architecture leadership, coaching, mentoring, and ad hoc training to architects, developers, management, and business users.
Prepare and deliver presentations on complex issues and promote consistency with strategic direction.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.