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100% remote, contract to hire opportunity with our major healthcare client based in Pittsburgh. We are looking for an Enterprise Architect with AI/ML experience.
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 sub-functions goals. Leads POC delivery, design and evolve the technical solution, manage non-technical requirements and compliance. Maintain the architectural runway, and define and prioritize enablers and enable continuous delivery
• Strategy & Innovation - Establishes current and long-range direction of technology within the sub-function aimed at keeping the organization on 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 proposes changes where needed. Mentor others within department. Identifies Problem Areas and High-Risk Areas in Software Solutions and Recommends Resolutions
• Knowledge & Skill - 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 crosslines 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 - Internal
• 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 experiences 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
Preferred Experience:
• 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