Enterprise Solution Architect

Role : Enterprise Solution Architect

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Duration: 6 to 12 Months C2H

MOI : Telephonic & WebCam

Primary Skills: SCRUM, FHIR, AWS/Azure Solutions, Architect/Engineer/Practitioner

Need Candidates with a Minimum of 12 Years of Experience. This is a 100% Remote role.

Client is Looking for AI/ML and HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE

Job Description:

Purpose:

• The Senior Solutions Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise executives through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities.
• The Sr. Architect s scope of activities includes helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks.
• As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will be challenged with aligning the technology strategy with the business strategy of multiple projects and/or department initiatives.
• You will lead the creation of best practices, policies, procedures, and other applicable technical documentation.
• You will lead various POC efforts.
• You will help hire, mentor, and evaluate Junior Solution Architects.
• Senior Solutions Architect is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision across a Solution Train to help ensure the system or solution under development is fit for its intended purpose.
• You will play a critical role in the Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) core competency by aligning the many solution builders across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Suppliers to a shared technical direction.
• Work From Home Opportunity!!

Responsibilities:

• Complexity of Work - Establishes the strategic technical direction of the sub-function.
• Drives the design, development, enhancement, and implementation of all technology domains within a given sub-function.
• Evaluates new technologies for use in support of the sub-function's goals.
• Leads POC delivery, designs and evolves the technical solution, manages non-technical requirements and compliance.
• Maintains the architectural runway and defines and prioritizes enablers to enable continuous delivery
• Strategy & Innovation - Establishes current and long-range direction of technology within the sub-function aimed at keeping the organization at the forefront of change.
• Collaborating and orchestrating across sub-functions.
• Collaborating and orchestrating across customers, partners, and internal engineering teams.
• Research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
• Mentor others within department.
• Identifies problem areas and high-risk areas in software solutions and recommends resolutions.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Require 10 years of software engineering and/or technical architecture related experience, capable of leading and mentoring a team of individual contributors, holds deep technical mastery and business knowledge across at least 2 relevant domains - APIs, UI, Security, Cloud, Mobile, DevOps etc, ability to apply extensive experience to highly complex problems, and strong understanding of IT strategy and how it relates to business objectives
• Scope of Influence - Helps business leaders, business units, and lines of business executives with design thinking, business modeling, ecosystem modeling, innovation, management, IT investment analysis, and operating model design.
• Facilitates development of cross-lines-of-business solutions that combine knowledge of business capabilities, value streams, and business processes
• Advises solution architects on solution options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business capabilities and processes.
• Collaborates with the enterprise program management office on benefits, issues, risks of initiatives and reporting project status.
• Helps develop a governance plan for ensuring that business architecture is a primary input to the development of other EA viewpoints such as solutions, information and technical architecture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience; M.B.A. preferred.
• Five or more years of business experience with a direct responsibility for strategy formulation and/or translation, business analysis/analytics, business architecture and/or program management.
• Three or more years of solution architecture experience covering both business and technology architecture solutions, including IT products, services and capabilities.
• Experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems. and business knowledge across multiple technology domains.
• Strategic thinking and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business, clinical and political factors.
• Has a broad background implementing different architectures to meet differing needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and possesses good presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to direct the implementation of diverse technologies in a complex organization.
• Diplomacy and interpersonal skills to lead others to provide inputs for the purpose of sharing with customers, partners, and higher management on vision and need for key technologies.
• Demonstrated experience innovating beyond the state of the art.
• Maximizing technical efficiency and setting technical direction.
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages (C#, .NET, Java, etc.)
• Clearly communicates tradeoffs, strategy, and complexity mitigation.
• Able to pair with members of the development team to accelerate POC development, to resolve a complex technical challenge, or to design and implement a new set of architectural standards
• Healthcare IT experience preferred.
• Holds and maintains relevant certification(s) - AWS/Azure Solution Architect/Engineer/Practitioner, FHIR, SCRUM, etc. is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
• Strong expertise in DevOps and CI/CD and Scrum and SAFe.
• Experience with container technologies is a plus
• Understanding of microservice design and architectural patterns; business architecture expertise
• TOGAF preferred
• Healthcare Payers services Domain expertise
• Experience in creating strategic technology
• Direction and alignment with tactical activities
• Communication, Leadership, Collaboration.