Architect, Domain

CareFirst
Reston, VA
03 Dec 2024

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Resp & Qualifications

PURPOSE:

You are a business architect, strategist, and/or analyst. You are confident, articulate, insightful, creative, and collaborative. Youare a leader, a partner, and an influencer.Preferably, you either have or are planning to obtain your Certified Business Architect(CBA)® designation.

As a Business Architect, you’ll apply your analytical, communications and creative skills to help stakeholders understand their business, diagnose their pain points, identify opportunities, and visualize their future business operations. You’ll partner with business stakeholders, product teams, and enterprise architects to ensure that transformation initiatives are driven by business needs, priorities, and vision. You’ll use elements of the Business Architecture Guild’s BIZBOK framework – business capability, ecosystem, and value stream models; strategy and information maps – along with operational scenarios and business process models to “tell stories”, “paint pictures”, and leverage data to inform / influence business strategy and investment decisions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
  • Architecture Development – Prepare business architecture artifacts depicting current, target, and interim states of business operations. Use current state artifacts to identify and analyze pain points and opportunities. Ensure alignment with strategies / objectives and across architecture domains. Support the publishing and maintenance of business architecture work products in the architecture repository, ensuring that they are organized, accurate, and accessible.
  • Portfolio Planning – Provide input to project, product, and enterprise technology roadmaps. Assess new / proposed projects for business architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture.
  • Governance – Support peer reviews and represent business architecturein briefings to the Architecture Review Board. Represent business architecture in the drafting of RFIs/RFPs and in the evaluation / scoringof vendor proposals.
  • Practice Development – Contribute to the extension and enhancement ofbusiness architecture approaches, methods, templates, and engagement models. Research emerging business architecture trends to determine their relevancy and fit for the organization. Ensure the alignment /integration of business architecture processes / deliverables with those of other architecture domains andSDLC disciplines. Contribute to the development of business architecture communications / education materiel for use withstakeholders and architecture / SDLC partners.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree inComputer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Licenses/Certifications: Certified Business Architectpreferred.

Experience: 5 years Experience in the Architecture Domain

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
  • Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner.
  • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high quality solutions.
  • Ability to coach peers and team members.
  • Ability to manage cross-domain architecture solutions and issues.
  • Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration.
  • Expertise with domain related architecture frameworks, methods and tools.
  • Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time. Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Department

Department: IT Business Architecture

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of theCompany to provide equal employment opportunities to allqualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Hire Range Disclaimer

Actual salary will be based on relevant job experience and work history.

Where To Apply

Please visit our website to apply: www.carefirst.com/careers

Closing Date

Please apply before: 12.07.2021

Federal Disc/Physical Demand

Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.

Sponsorship in US

Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
  • ID: #23790374
  • State: Virginia Reston 20191 Reston USA
  • City: Reston
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-12-03
  • Deadline: 2022-01-31
  • Category: Architect/engineer/CAD