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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield · 4 days ago

Senior Enterprise Architect (Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$127K/yr - $252K/yr

6+ years exp

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is a leading healthcare company, and they are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead the planning, development, and application of enterprise architecture to achieve business strategies and transformations. The role involves supporting the development of IT strategy, governance, and solution assessments while providing architectural guidance across various business areas.

Health CareNon ProfitService Industry

No H1B

Responsibilities

Develop review, approve, and maintain enterprise architecture blueprints and roadmaps

Analyze pain points and opportunities that transcend business areas and propose enterprise strategies or solutions

Identify, develop and maintain reusable architecture patterns and reference models

Ensure alignment across architecture and business domains and traceability to business and IT strategy

Provide guidance to domain and solution architects to ensure that solution architectures align with IT strategies and enterprise blueprints, standards, and guidelines

Researches, develops, documents, and analyzes enterprise architectures (including business, enterprise information environment, intelligence processes, and IT) to identify mission capability gaps, overlaps, and shortfalls

Lead the development and execution of enterprise and domain-specific IT strategies, standards, and guidelines

Engage in business strategy development to identify new business capability and technology-driven opportunities and ensure alignment and prioritization of IT strategy

Support the development, tailoring, and enhancement of enterprise architecture frameworks, methods, and tools

Ensure the alignment and integration of enterprise architecture processes and deliverables with those of other architecture and SDLC disciplines

Contribute to development of enterprise architecture communications and education material for use with business and technical stakeholders or partners

Prepares and publishes formal architecture documents, produces architecture development plans and reports, and presents staff actions to customers (e.g., white papers, briefings)

Represent Enterprise Architecture in solution architecture peer reviews and architecture governance forums

Support the operations of the Architecture Review Board

Assess projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture

Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to enterprise architecture

Represent Enterprise Architecture in the identification and evaluation of solution alternatives, including the drafting and/or review of RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation of vendor proposals

Qualification

Enterprise ArchitectureArchitecture GovernanceHealthcare Data StandardsArchitecture FrameworksCloud TechnologiesData IntegrationStakeholder CollaborationAnalytical ThinkingCoaching SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience

10 years Related professional IT engineering experience leading multiple business facing enterprise level cross domain engineering initiatives OR

8 years progressive experience in multiple Domain Architecture or Solutions Architecture leading multiple business facing enterprise level architecture initiatives OR

6 years experience in Enterprise Architecture leading multiple business facing enterprise architecture initiatives

Proficiency in innovating ideas and solutions resulting in tangible and measurable business outcomes

Develop strategies for technological acceleration of value outcomes, and effectively present and persuade key decision makers to invest in this acceleration

Expertise with one or more architecture domains (software development, data, integration, interoperability, cloud, artificial intelligence) and their associated architecture frameworks, standards/patterns, methods and tools

Architecture experience in one or more technology platforms (Facets G6, Salesforce Health Cloud/Data Cloud, other Healthcare specific platforms, MuleSoft, Kafka, Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, Snowflake, Anthropic, Claude, Azure Fabric)

Experience overseeing and driving third-party architecture engagements and outcomes

Knowledge of healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, X12) and regulatory requirements (HIPAA, CMS, NCQA)

Experience contributing to portfolio rationalization and/or technical debt remediation initiatives at an enterprise level

Ability to motivate and influence others so that architecture objectives are met in a timely and consistent manner

Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high quality strategies, conceptual architecture, solutions, and standards

Ability to coach peers and team members across multiple business and technology disciplines

Effective organizational/interpersonal/relationship management, analytical/systems thinking, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration across multiple business and IT teams

Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship