Senior Enterprise Solution Architect

Highmark Health • Carolina, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Enterprise Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of innovative, robust, and scalable solutions that address complex business capabilities and needs. This pivotal role requires a strong focus on conceptualizing future-state solutions by effectively translating complex business requirements, collaborating closely with business architects and product Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and critically defining and ensuring the implementation of essential non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, scalability, reliability). As a Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, you will be responsible for developing detailed architectural diagrams, modeling, and representing diverse architectural views (e.g., deployment, data, application, security) using industry-standard modeling techniques such as ArchiMate. You will ensure that all proposed solutions meticulously adhere to existing enterprise reference architecture standards and strategic architectural guidelines, playing a crucial role in operationalizing strategy and ensuring successful solution delivery. A key aspect of this role involves providing strategic consultation and technical leadership, guiding projects through the full solution lifecycle, and driving alignment across various technical domains. You will effectively collaborate with Enterprise Architects and engineering teams to ensure solution designs contribute to the overarching enterprise architectural vision and strategic initiatives. This position demands proven experience within the healthcare payer industry, a deep understanding of emerging technologies, and the ability to articulate architectural concepts and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline
• 5 years in an IT discipline
• 5 years in a Business discipline

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree
• Health Insurance Industry business knowledge
• Extensive experience with solution design and architecture across complex enterprise systems.
• Industry certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate Certifications relevant to Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Security Architecture
• IMS DB2
• Oracle and Teradata Databases
• Data Warehousing
• COBAL
• Visual Basic
• C
• C++
• SAS
• Java/JavaScript Framework
• PEGA
• CSS3
• Mobile
• JSON
• Cognos
• Hadoop
• SQL
• J2EE
• HTML5/XML
• Waterfall
• Agile

Responsibilities

• Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing more complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements.
• Facilitate development of more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
• Participate in more complex enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
• Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively.
• Review others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Establish policy for selection of more complex architecture components.
• Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more complex major design options.
• Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
• Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of more complex architectures.
• Take a lead role to produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.
• Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes.
• Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
• Select and use more complex tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
• Take a lead role to identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which more complex products or systems will operate.
• Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits.
• Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieve improvement.
• Take a lead role to ensure the resolution of a variety of more complex architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
• Communicate effectively will all levels of organization.
• Manage expectations of customers, partners and management.
• Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
• Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert advice regarding their application.
• Take a lead role in providing leadership and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: preparing presentations on more complex issues on the area of expertise and presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to the Organization's strategic direction.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Pay Range Minimum: $102,700.00
• Pay Range Maximum: $164,600.00

What This Job Offers

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