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Title: Application Architect Location: Hybrid - Nashville, Tennessee 37243 Duration: 12 Months Job Overview Summary: The Application Architect will serve as subject matter expert and trusted advisor providing technical support and architectural guidance to leadership, business partners and internal teams. Duties & Responsibilities Architecture and Design and Development:
- Define and oversee application architecture, implementation for diverse business projects and ensures alignment with TennCare Enterprise Architecture.
- Work on solutions across a diverse range of projects, which can include application development across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and On-Prem distributed systems leveraging modern technologies such as Microservices, containers etc
- Technical knowledge of all phases of application architecture and development and responsibility to guide teams across all phases of SDLC.
- Work as a technical leader alongside the development and architecture teams, partnering closely with Security, Infrastructure, DevOps, Developers and Scrum teams.
- Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Ensure proper documentation of software design and work with business partners to design and implement solution to meet architecture standards.
- Ensure systems security and compliance with PII, HIPAA, SOX, etc.
- Identify dependencies and common components, and to assess migration feasibility and develop migration roadmap.
- Offer guidance in techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud, deployment of Greenfield and Brownfield applications to cloud environments.
- Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the "why," and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
- Effectively manages day to day activities across multiple projects.
- Strong ability to see the 'big picture' and able to implement strategies that align for success in meeting TennCare goals.
- Fosters collaboration with vendors, technical teams and business customers by listening to concerns and needs. With this understanding, as well as the TennCare environment (architectural, political, structural), research and propose more cost effective, efficient and maintainable new solutions and approaches to business and technical problems.
- Analyzes existing practices and technologies to isolate areas ripe for improvement or enhancement.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or relevant field.
- 8+ years' of experience in designing, executing and supporting software development projects.
- 3+ years' experience in Enterprise, Application/Integration and Information architecture design.
- 2+ years' of experience in designing and developing cloud applications on one of the public cloud platforms.
- Experience on Web Portals, object-oriented development and distributed object development.
- Experience on API management, Batch processing, DevOps, Agile practices.
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability.
- Good understanding on security best practices in application development.
- Experience in a broad set of technologies related to applications and IT infrastructure.
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated reports to management and other IT development partners.
- Experience managing the application delivery process is a plus.
- Experience working in a healthcare environment preferred.