Highmark Health

Highmark Health

Senior Architect

PA, Working at Home - Pennsylvania · Senior

Work authorization required$10k-$25kDetected 2 days ago
JavaScriptJavaC++AngularHTMLCSSSpringSQLGCPDockerKubernetesCI/CDKafkaLLMsAgentic AIComplianceAccessibilityProject ManagementProcess ImprovementHIPAASASLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • Ensures integrity of more complex architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing.
  • Leverages business and technology knowledge to enable and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations and systems.
  • May mentor less experienced team members.

Responsibilities

  • Take a lead role to ensure the resolution of a variety of more complex architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
  • Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert advice regarding their application.
  • Take a lead role in providing leadership and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: preparing presentations on more complex issues on the area of expertise and presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to the Organization's strategic direction.
  • Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
  • Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively.
  • Review others' system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
  • Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more complex major design options.
  • Take a lead role to produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.

Requirements

  • It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.
  • CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)***
  • Facilitate development of more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline
  • 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.)

Skills

  • GCP Cloud
  • Agentic AI/MCP
  • Event-Streaming (Kafka, MQ)
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • C4 Diagramming
  • Spring Boot
  • Angular
  • Non-Relational Databases
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Language (other than English)

Compensation

  • Pay Range Maximum:
  • Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate's qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations.
  • The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance Industry business knowledge

Company info

  • enGen Job Description:
  • This job takes a lead role, within area of responsibility, and (application, solution, information, technology, business) designs, develops, implements, supports, and optimizes more complex architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs.
  • Takes a lead role to ensure completeness of more complex architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders.
  • Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to develop.
  • Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices.
  • May take on role of Project Lead for special assignments.
  • Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing more complex 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 more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in more complex enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
  • Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively. Review others' system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establish policy for selection of more complex architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more complex major design options. Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
  • Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of more complex architectures. Take a lead role to produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
  • Select and use more complex tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Take a lead role to identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which more complex products or systems will operate. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieve improvement.

Equal opportunity

  • For accommodation requests, please contact HR Services Online at HRServices@highmarkhealth.org

Visa & Work Authorization

  • CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)***
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