Architect
Job ID: J175415
Company: Highmark Health
Location: Camp Hill,PA,US
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Type: Day (United States of America)
AHN Facility:
Posted Date: February 22, 2021
JOB DESCRIPTION
Company :
Highmark Health
Job Description :
JOB SUMMARY
This job, within area of expertise (application, solution, information, technology, business), designs, develops, implements, supports, and optimizes architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs. Ensures completeness of architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders. Ensures integrity of architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing. Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to develop. Leverage business and technology knowledge to enable and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations and systems. Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitate development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
- Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Reviews others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Uses appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of
- architectures. Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
- Selects and uses tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate. Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement.
- Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems:
Communicates effectively will all levels of organization
Manages expectations of customers, partners and management
Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk-throughs; and problem resolution and decision making
Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of complex requirements for peers and other staff.
- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area:
Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by:
Preparing presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise
Presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction.
- Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
*Exempted degree requirements effective July 2014
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field
Substitutions
- None
Preferred
- Master's degree
EXPERIENCE
Required
- 5 – 7 years experience in architecture
Preferred
- Experience working with any of the follow technologies: Kubernetes/OpenShift, GCP Container Deployments, Terraform, Tekton, Helm, ArgoCD, Open Policy Agent, Artifactory, GitLab
LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS
Required
- Industry certifications
- Health insurance industry business knowledge
Preferred
- None
SKILLS
An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs.
IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing
COBAL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS
Java/JavaScript Framework
PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML
Project Management Tools:
Waterfall
Agile
Certification in application areas such as:
Java Developer
DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise
Architect(SCEA), Project Management
LANGUAGE (Other than English)
None
TRAVEL REQUIREMENT
0% – 25%
PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS
Position Type
Office-based
Teaches / trains others regularly
Occasionally
Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site
Occasionally
Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)
Never
Physical work site required
Yes
Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.
Compliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.
As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy.
Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.
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BENEFITS
Total Rewards Program
In addition to competitive pay rates and flexible career growth, we show our employee appreciation through a comprehensive Total Rewards package, including:
- Medical and prescription drug, dental and vision coverages for your and your eligible dependents
- Health Saving and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life, AD&D and disability insurance
- Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan
- Paid time off, including paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Volunteer opportunities
- Voluntary benefits
- Employee discounts
Wellness Resources and Programs
Employees have access to the following wellness programs and resources:
Employees have access to the following wellness programs and resources:
- Work-life resources, such as employee assistance programs and financial counseling services
- 24/7 telephone access to health and wellness coaching to achieve personal goals
- Onsite pharmacy services at major campuses
- Fitness center access for all employees inclusive of showers, lockers, and group exercise classes at major Highmark campuses, Allegheny General Hospital & West Penn Hospital
- Access to chronic condition management programs when enrolled in the employer-sponsored medical plan
- 100% coverage for preventive exams, including flu shots
- Incentive program that rewards employees
- Secure bicycle parking at major campuses
- Healthy food options at onsite cafeterias
- Employee networks to gather in the name of health
- Onsite seated massage and stress management classes including yoga, mindfulness and meditation
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