Enterprise Architect / Senior Enterprise Architect

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona is a local, independent Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a not-for-profit health insurance company headquartered in Phoenix. Founded in 1939, the company has more than 1,800 dedicated employees throughout its Phoenix, Tucson, Chandler and Flagstaff offices. Providing health insurance products, services and networks to more than 1 million Arizonans, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona offers various health plans for individuals, families, and small and large businesses. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona also offers Medicare supplement plans to individuals over age 65.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona helps to fulfill its mission of improving the quality of life of Arizonans by delivering a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

• Provide strategic consultation to business areas, working alongside them to construct roadmaps/ blueprints outlining current areas of need as well as potential areas of growth. Devise strategies for leveraging current /future technology to best service our business partners while ensuring Information Technologys ability to support these initiatives. Assess long-term needs, market trends and technology disruptors and advise on their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.
• Participate in the enterprise architecture development including: articulating of the architecture vision, modeling the data, application and technical architectures and application portfolio management. Follow the EA process, selecting principles to guide design decisions, and applying appropriate governance and compliance activities. Deliver results to the organization based on business requirements and IT strategies.
• Collaborate with the project management office on implementation plans that move toward the target enterprise architecture and align projects with architecture strategies and roadmaps. Consult with application development, security and infrastructure teams to ensure technology solutions are designed for optimal security, support, interoperability and enterprise usefulness.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

• 5 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as architecture, application development, information analysis, IT management or operations) in a large IT environment
• 3 years of experience in a business-facing role (such as strategic business planning, business analysis, product owner, consultant or project management).

Required Education

• Associates degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience.

Required Licenses

• N/A

Required Certifications

• N/A

Preferred Work Experience

• 3 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role
• 3 years of experience in the Healthcare industry, especially the payer space

Preferred Education

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field

Preferred Licenses

• N/A

Preferred Certifications

• Enterprise Architecture framework (such as TOGAF 9.1, Zachman, FEAF or similar)
• ITIL v3+ Practitioner Certification
  

ESSENTIAL Job Functions AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish enterprise standards, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Assist in creating the vision for future state technologies and architecture aligned to the companys strategic vision.
• Responsible for documenting the current state and future state architecture using EA tools and templates.
• Champion application portfolio management activities including being an expert in the use of APM tools and processes and evangelizing the efficient use and adoption of APM across the company.
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability and manageability.
• Participate and lead research and development efforts including market research summaries, proofs of concept, prototypes, vendor assessments, and consultative summaries.
• Provide technical expertise to propose level of effort projections, work breakdown structures and technical resource planning for proposed and current work to support the Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Review Board (PRB) Processes.
• Educate and influence others in order to gain buy-in on proposed roadmaps, strategies, standards and solutions.
• Provide input to management throughout the project management lifecycle (PMLC).
• Assist managers with developing the service level agreements (SLAs) and deployment of key performance measures.
• Participate in architectural review functions and ensure adherence to technology standards and architecture.
• Review current state architectures for improvement opportunities, portfolio rationalization and alignment with strategic plans and architectures.
• Facilitate communications between IT teams and business stakeholders for technical issues and/or major changes; acting as the technical domain subject matter expert.
• Provide expertise to educate, coach and mentor team members; provide performance feedback to manager(s).
• Keep current and informed of domain related technologies and best practices.
• The position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any overtime as requested or needed to perform job responsibilities.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

Required Job Skills

• Intermediate skill in use of office equipment, including copiers, fax machines, scanner and telephones
• Intermediate PC proficiency
• Intermediate proficiency in spreadsheet, database and word processing software

Required Professional Competencies

• Customer focused with strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact professionally at all levels of the organization including executives.
• Integrity and Trust.
• Able to teach others and explain complex concepts with clarity, educating through knowledge sharing presentations and written documents.
• Ability to be self-aware and emotionally intelligent, able to give and receive constructive feedback and continue self-development.
• Demonstrated understanding of modern enterprise architecture.
• Strong knowledge of IT systems, practices and functional units.
• Strong knowledge of application development, infrastructure and operations.
• Ability to be approachable and develop healthy working relationships across a diverse team.
• Ability to assess a situation, make critical observations and take appropriate risks, using available information.
• Anticipate downstream technical needs and steer architectural designs to appropriately factor in considerations.
• Strong analytical skills to support independent and effective decisions.
• Be driven for results and work effectively with management, project managers, analysts, developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, and testers to conceive, design, and deliver successful solutions.
• Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction including business strategy, technology strategy, technical design and implementation.

Required Leadership Experience and Competencies

• Provide leadership, promote teamwork, and act collaboratively to meet objectives.
• Experience leading teams and implementing projects with both business and technical participants.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work with multiple priorities, sometimes under limited time constraints.
• Ability to build consensus with a diverse team in an ever-changing environment.

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

Preferred Job Skills

• Expert knowledge designing highly redundant, scalable, multi-tier enterprise transaction processing systems from front end to back end.
• Experience with cloud architecture.
• Knowledge of HIPAA security and privacy standards.
• In depth knowledge of healthcare and health plan operations, products, data structures, business processes and workflows.

Preferred Professional Competencies

• N/A

Preferred Leadership Experience and Competencies

• N/A

Comply with BCBSAZ corporate and departmental policies and procedures, including, but not limited to Code Blue, Compliance, HIPAA, Computer Responsibility, Accreditation Standards, Attendance, Staff Qualifications and Quality Management Accountabilities.

Our Commitment

BCBSAZ does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected group.

Thank You

Thank you for your interest in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. For more information on our company, see azblue.com. If interested in this position, please apply.