Solution Architect - Senior

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• Provide leadership in the research, development and adherence to application standards and patterns, application portfolio strategy for solutions, integrations, and infrastructure.
• Provide leadership with service level agreements and processes (i.e., Walkthrough and Approval processes, Program/System documentation, Status Reporting, Escalation, Change Management, Problem Management, Software Development Methodology, etc.).
• Serve as the senior architect responsible for the planning and design of both on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure solutions. Drive adherence to existing and evolving security requirements to ensure a robust and secure environment for which to deploy applications.
• Serve as Lead Project Architect on a project team (including users, developers and/or vendors), to plan, coordinate, analyze, design, review and implement application systems and/or enhancements to existing systems to meet current and future needs.
• Ensure vendor work is accurately and thoroughly reviewed and also meets all applicable standards; identify gaps and/or opportunities in work to meet long term corporate goals.
• Contribute to and apply IT industry best practices.
• Participate in and lead a crossfunctional IT Architecture groups that review designs from an enterprise perspective.
• Participate in the design review process and support the overall Enterprise Architecture Management process. Also, influence and drive change to architecture processes, strategies, and standards, as needed.
• Accountable for key design reviews and recommendations to management and IT governance, including selection and review of structural elements and their interfaces, by which a system is composed; Behavior as specified in collaborations about those elements; Composition of these structural and behavioral elements into larger subsystems; Architectural system that guides this organization; Architectural documentation creation and stewardship.
• Support pre-project efforts in terms of working with the user team or vendor during meetings/presentations, crafting conceptual solutions, assisting with time estimates, and documenting designs.
• Develop Solution Architecture Models and Documentation (key written project deliverable). Oversee and approve the creation of architecture documentation.
• Provide technical expertise/coaching for others; facilitate the development and provide direction on integration design patterns around services and interfaces; work hands-on often with delivery teams; and monitor application architecture related to other areas of IT, the business community, and outside vendors to ensure the relevance of architecture to meet business needs.
• Create or review IT plans that manage clear and realistic expectations of what technology can offer in terms of products, services, and delivery mechanisms.
• Establish, maintain and review enterprise architecture models to enable applications development and decision-supporting activities, consistent with IT plans.
• Support and mentor less experienced architecture staff.

• Bachelor s Degree and 10 years of progressive experience in a combination of development, design, infrastructure/data center and/or related IT disciplines.
• If no degree, 12 years of progressive experience as stated above
• Must have at least 3 years of direct infrastructure, system, application and/or other solution architecture experience.
• Experience should include significant background leading broad and complex technical work with proven success in the design and delivery of quality scalable IT solutions on time, on budget and in compliance with applicable requirements.:
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical integrations, technologies, and processing environments, including cloud and SaaS technologies.
• Familiarity with front-end development, micro-services, and cloud computing is required.
• Strong experience in solution design principles and practices, system development methodologies, and software life cycles.
• Experience coordinating vendor solution delivery and partnering effectively with vendors to meet business needs.

• Experience in multiple architecture disciplines is preferred.
• Experience leading technical teams, especially hands-on, and able to coach teams on new technologies and practices.
• Prefer candidates with understanding of the following:
• Regulatory and legislative impact on health plans, specifically HIPAA requirements placed on cloud tenants.
• Health insurance and plan administration. Front-end web development and JavaScript frameworks.
• SOA and micro-services
• Converged infrastructure planning or design.
• Middleware and client-server technologies. Vue.js and GraphQL are a plus. AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticity, Interoperability, and other subject matter expertise in healthcare technologies.

• Every Enterprise Initiative that is determined to have architecture impact requires an assigned LPA.

• Role: The LPA provides leadership and is accountable for all architecture deliverables (Architecture Specification being the primary deliverable) as well as for the overall success of the project's architectural aspects. This person serves as the key point person for communication between the project team and the Architecture Practice.

• Process: Architecture leadership determines and assigns the LPA at the time the project is initially assessed for IT impact. The LPA will pull in supporting architecture roles as required by the project.
• Architecture Impact: Generally, consult the architecture practice to the team. This can often be a quick discussion. We look for new vendors, new functionality (even for existing vendors), new integrations, and any impacts to architecture specialties (i.e. infrastructure, security, etc.).
• Create project specific deliverables, contribute to shared assets, support project management activities, collaborate on design and delivery, support other architecture documentation. Assist with project management activities, scope and requirements activities, and support other work outside of projects on an as needed basis.
• Experience with object-oriented system architectures utilizing use cases, ArchiMate or Unified Modeling Language (UML), Visio, Draw.io, and TOGAF or the Rational Unified Process (RUP) or similar methodology is preferred.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, including team leadership and work organization/coordination.
• Excellent influencing and consultative skills; and the ability to proactively identify and resolve issues and opportunities.
• Works effectively with clients to document requirements by conducting interviews and facilitating JAD sessions.
• Able to work closely with the business, IT personnel and other architectural areas to provide research and development around application trends, integration patterns, vendor direction and development methodologies. Coordination, architectural leadership, and architectural governance.

• Serve as the central architectural resource throughout the lifecycle of an initiative. Provide leadership of the overall technical direction for a project's solution. Collaborate with all IT areas (including Security, Infrastructure, Engineering, and the Delivery teams) to ensure the architecture solution for the project meets business and IT objectives. Keep the relevant project information, in our CMS, up to date (governance, stakeholders, links, comments, etc.).

• Articulate and conceptualize the architectural vision for the initiative.
• Ensure the project architecture is aligned with enterprise architecture standards, roadmaps, principles and patterns. Follow ARB processes to document any exceptions (decision memo process). Provide input into and reviews (for approval) new infrastructure or changes made by the infrastructure vendor.

• Escalate any architecture issues that need to be addressed by leadership and governance. Work with Enterprise Architecture Governance and Leadership (as needed) to review solutions, evolve solutions and/or escalate exceptions.
• Maintain project info in Aardvark, especially key stakeholders. Be sure to identify yourself as the LPA. Document Architecture decisions that should be called out and made visible outside of the project. Ensure that architecture reviews and approvals are carried out per the Architecture Review and Customization Assessment processes.