Enterprise Architect

Medica • Saint Louis, MO

52d • Hybrid

About The Position

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for. We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration - because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm, and every member feels valued. Enterprise Architects have a wide set of duties and responsibilities and often span many within a single work day. Primarily, the Enterprise Architect works to establish strategies, architectural future state, reference architecture, and oversees and assesses the level of alignment with the established future state architecture as well as enterprise capabilities, standards, patterns, and principles. The Enterprise Architect also assists with aligning business and enterprise initiatives with technical strategy and serves as advisor to senior leadership. Strategy Development Enterprise Architects function as trusted advisors, influencing business strategy to drive Future State Architecture definition. They translate or map business strategy into information strategy and understand technology product and vendor strategies, products, and customer preferences. They represent the organization's business requirements in a human consumable manner, as it relates to strategy. Establish the Future State Architecture The Future State Architecture establishes a multi-year vision for the technology with actionable plans to realize the vision. The Enterprise Architect is responsible for all or key aspects of defining and shepherding the enterprise through realizing the future state. Define the Reference Architecture The Enterprise Architect defines as well as coordinate Subject Matter Experts in the definition of the Reference Architecture. The Reference Architecture is the collection of enterprise-wide principles, standards, patterns, and practices with which all solutions align. Assess Solutions for Alignment Enterprise Architects serve to assess candidate architecture for alignment with the Future State Architecture and Reference Architecture. Through this aspect of their role, the Enterprise Architect must demonstrate political awareness and a solid understanding of architectural trade-offs. Moreover, the Enterprise Architect must understand risk management and how to express feedback on a candidate architecture in terms of risk. Monitor and Evaluate Technology and Trends Enterprise Architects must maintain a solid understanding of changes in technology; this includes how changes impact other technologies. Additionally, the Enterprise Architect maintains a strong awareness of emerging technology trends and actively assesses the enterprise implications of trends. Focus Area: Core Health Plan Operations This Enterprise Architect must demonstrate a deep understanding of core health plan operations. In partnership with other leaders the Enterprise Architect will oversee a divers portfolio of technology, services, and vendors focused on enrollment, billing, claims, and finance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field, plus 8 years of work experience beyond degree
• Technical Literacy - Enterprise Architects possess a high level of technical literacy, which helps inform both the Future State Architecture and Reference Architecture. Moreover, technical literacy ensures a thorough assessment of candidate architectures as well as advice and consultation with Solution and Domain Architects.
• Analytical Assessment -This role requires advanced analytical skills since Enterprise Architects need to continually assess technology and sector trends and the implications of architectural decisions on the enterprise.
• Time Management - effectively manage competing priorities.
• Leadership - Because Enterprise Architects function in a leadership role within the enterprise, experience with influencing, leadership, and motivation is essential.
• Communication -In this role, Enterprise Architects are responsible for communicating with team members, clients, and external vendors, so they must exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strategy - The Enterprise Architect must have strong business acumen and experience in multiple business sectors to be able to effectively translate business strategy into technology strategy.
• Architecture Frameworks - The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF), Zachman. And Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE), Lean Six-Sigma

Responsibilities

• Establish strategies, architectural future state, reference architecture
• Oversee and assess the level of alignment with the established future state architecture as well as enterprise capabilities, standards, patterns, and principles
• Assist with aligning business and enterprise initiatives with technical strategy
• Serve as advisor to senior leadership
• Function as trusted advisors, influencing business strategy to drive Future State Architecture definition
• Translate or map business strategy into information strategy
• Understand technology product and vendor strategies, products, and customer preferences
• Represent the organization's business requirements in a human consumable manner, as it relates to strategy
• Responsible for all or key aspects of defining and shepherding the enterprise through realizing the future state
• Define as well as coordinate Subject Matter Experts in the definition of the Reference Architecture
• Assess candidate architecture for alignment with the Future State Architecture and Reference Architecture
• Demonstrate political awareness and a solid understanding of architectural trade-offs
• Understand risk management and how to express feedback on a candidate architecture in terms of risk
• Maintain a solid understanding of changes in technology; this includes how changes impact other technologies
• Maintain a strong awareness of emerging technology trends and actively assesses the enterprise implications of trends
• Oversee a divers portfolio of technology, services, and vendors focused on enrollment, billing, claims, and finance

Benefits

• competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees