Information Security Systems Architect Senior

Corewell Health • Grand Rapids, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior System Architect provides leadership, analysis, and design for technology solutions, products, and systems, ensuring they meet business needs and align with architectural standards. The role typically spans multiple related solutions, products, and systems or complex major systems, and guides technical direction in collaboration with product management, project management, other leaders, domain architecture, and enterprise architecture. The architect uses critical thinking, analysis, communication, and influence to ensure solution architectures align with business goals and enterprise architecture. The role may also contribute significantly to domain and enterprise architecture and the architecture community of practice.

As a primary technology leader and subject matter expert for one or more systems or agile release trains, the architect defines and communicates a shared technical and architectural vision, helps ensure systems are fit for purpose, and supports high-quality continuous delivery. The architect shapes technical direction, facilitates nonfunctional requirements and enabler features, guides technical design and trade-off decisions, and ensures lifecycle needs are reflected in backlogs and system designs. The position also develops architecture roadmaps and architectural runway, explores new technical capabilities, and supports product lifecycle decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in the field.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or equivalent.
• Prior architecture experience.
• Software, system, or technology engineering experience at the highest level of proficiency.
• Experience developing architecture patterns and standards.
• Experience with systems development lifecycle and technology implementation.
• Experience developing technical portfolios, roadmaps, frameworks, and controls.
• Prior healthcare provider or payer experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technology leader and subject matter expert for one or more systems or agile release trains, potentially spanning multiple release trains for shared systems.
• Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for a system or agile release train.
• Participate, often in a leading role, in Program Increment Planning, Pre- and Post-PI Planning, System and Solution Demos, and Inspect and Adapt events.
• Work with product management, project management, stakeholders, internal customers, and team members to align architectural direction and support high-quality continuous delivery.
• Define and facilitate delivery of nonfunctional requirements and enabler features for agile release trains.
• Work with teams to analyze technical trade-offs, resolve problems, determine components and subsystems, identify interfaces, and support technical design activities.
• Ensure technical lifecycle needs, such as upgrades and security patches, are incorporated into team backlogs and system designs.
• Support product managers with end-of-life decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire products, services, or systems.
• Guide management and product management on cost, performance monitoring, skillset, and operational support aspects of technical solutions.
• Develop and advocate for architecture roadmaps and work with product owners and product managers to maintain an architectural runway for future business requirements.
• Lead and participate in exploration activities to prototype new technical capabilities for assigned systems and solutions.
• Collaborate with domain and enterprise architecture to align delivered solutions with a shared technical direction and participate in the architecture community of practice.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package supporting financial, health, and work/life balance goals.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv.
• Discounts directory with deals on restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more.
• Optional identity theft protection, home insurance, and auto insurance.
• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and matching savings.

What This Job Offers

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