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Job Summary:
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is dedicated to serving the health and well-being of Rhode Islanders. The Lead Technical Software Architect provides technical leadership and architectural direction, ensuring architectural integrity and driving efficiency throughout the project lifecycle while mentoring junior architects.
Responsibilities:
• Own solution designs for high complexity domains, mentoring junior TSAs.
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts (HLDs, current v target state, context diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.)
• Evaluate design trade-offs (latency vs. throughput, synchronous vs. async calls).
• Govern critical cross-cutting concerns: identity, data platform, API platform, observability, and security.
• Make high-stakes decisions on build/buy via product evaluations, contributing to reference implementations and proof-of-concepts (POCs).
• Govern design reviews; capture and track technical risks, assumptions, and decisions.
• Identify and validate non-functional requirements (NFR).
• Establish and enforce enterprise standards (identity, logging, API standards, cloud patterns).
• Drive projects with evolving technical artifacts to continuously maintain the current-state ecosystem with EA oversight.
• Curate and share internal knowledge base of capabilities, systems, processes, interdependencies, and underlying design via the EA tool.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Develop architect community of practice; mentor and succession-plan for the function.
• Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, best practices, and enforce through Architecture Review Board and projects.
• Own HLD and other solution/technical artifact template maintenance.
• Ensure alignment between enterprise, solution, and technical architecture layers.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and resilience of critical systems.
• Drive technology innovation and adoption
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Seven or more years’ experience in software engineering with five or more years of repeated success guiding large-scale, multi-year transformations via architecture design and support.
• Broad experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with AI/ML enablement.
• Expert in API management, microservices, and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with Salesforce, FACETS, ServiceNow, Matillion, Apigee, Snowflake, and data warehousing tools/practices.
• Experience with data architecture, analytics platforms, and data governance.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to engineering with good diagramming hygiene for mutual understanding.
• Receptive/adaptive to alternative design approaches presented by engineering, although accountable for the final design.
• Experience with best practice software development, integration, and configuration management methodologies and project management office reporting.
• Coachable, adaptable, and willing to learn/teach modern technologies/processes.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with ability to align technology strategy to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for inter-level audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive consensus.
• Expert in agile or waterfall methodologies.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree in technical discipline such as Information Systems Management, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science
• Experience with multiple platforms, operating systems, RDBMS, and integrated development environments
• Four or more years’ experience in healthcare/insurance industry.
Company:
At Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI), we know that health is more than what happens at the doctor’s office. Founded in 1939, the company is headquartered in Providence, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.