Systems Architect

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health•Ann Arbor, MI

1d•$107,000 - $176,000

About The Position

The Systems Architect will be responsible for conducting architecture trade-off analyses, coordinating and documenting system architectures, and presenting recommendations to stakeholders. This role involves developing business process models, assessing impacts to infrastructure and operations, and ensuring compliance with information systems security requirements. The architect will recommend approaches to close architecture gaps, review enterprise-wide changes, and use agile approaches to integrate new technologies. This position serves as the technical architecture counterpart to client governance and development partners, supporting the implementation of new operational capabilities. Experience working within Medicare systems at CMS, especially enrollment and beneficiary database operations, is required. Arbor Research values a collaborative spirit, creativity, credibility, and dedication in its employees.

Requirements

Experience working within Medicare systems at CMS, especially enrollment and beneficiary database operations, is required.
Bachelor’s degree with at least seven (7) years of experience in architecture design supporting systems, program, or business requirements and present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience leading collaborative evaluation of workflows, business process models, organization, and planning to construct and design technical solutions, and to make recommendations or implement requirements.
Familiarity with principles of object-oriented application development, relational database structure, system interfaces, and integration patterns.
Experience applying agile methodologies to integrate new technologies iteratively.
Ability to understand difficult technical concepts and to communicate, orally and in writing, with a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
Excellent organizational and planning skills.
Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Federal public trust suitability determination, and U.S. work authorization sufficient to meet E-Verify requirements.

Nice To Haves

Non-profit experience.
Experience supporting Federal health programs or agencies.
Familiarity with Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and ITIL governance frameworks.
Experience producing enterprise architecture artifacts and target-state documentation for large, integrated systems.
Familiarity with information systems security frameworks such as FISMA.

Responsibilities

Conduct architecture trade-off analyses and recommendations based on business, interface, and performance requirements, including changes to interactions and interfaces between systems.
Coordinate, capture, baseline, analyze, and document system architectures that depict information flows and data stores across integrated systems.
Present architecture recommendations to stakeholders, collect feedback, and identify changes.
Baseline and maintain the concept of operations and the system architecture transition plan, and review changes with stakeholders.
Develop, store, manage, and communicate business process models, diagrams, and visual artifacts that express target-state processes.
Assess potential impacts to infrastructure, core services, business operations, and maintenance, and recommend requirement or design changes.
Coordinate activities to ensure compliance with information systems security requirements, security documentation, and controls.
Recommend approaches to close identified architecture gaps and to evolve technology to meet business needs.
Review enterprise-wide changes and system migration plans to identify project impact, monitor risk, and develop mitigations.
Use agile approaches to integrate new technologies iteratively, delivering and validating the target-state architecture in increments through demonstrations and pilots.
Serve as the technical architecture counterpart to client governance and to development partners, and support implementation of new operational capabilities.