Manager, Technical Architecture (Baton Rouge, LA) Position Available In East Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Manager, Technical Architecture (Baton Rouge, LA)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Position Purpose
The primary function of this profile is to provide architectural and technology leadership, oversight, recommendations, and transition strategies that optimize the alignment of business strategies and capabilities to the foundational and enabling IT capabilities needed to support them. This position will include oversight of processes needed to formalize and operationalize the enterprise-wide architecture, oversight of key technology investments, and evaluation of emerging technology. This is achieved by working across all major domains of the Enterprise Architecture practice, namely Application Architecture, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, and Solution Architecture. This position will include management of Architecture staff.
Nature and Scope
Manages People
This role directly manages 5 or more workers
This role directly manages these jobs: Lead Domain Architect; Senior Domain Architect
This role reports to this job: Director, Technical Architecture

Necessary Contacts:

This position must be in contact with all levels of leadership and external vendors of BCBSLA.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience required
Four years of related experience can be used in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
Work Experience
5 years of relevant technology or architecture experience required.
3 years of healthcare insurance industry required, experience can run concurrently.
Prior experience leading a team.
Requires working technical knowledge at a structural and strategic level across a broad range of IT disciplines including current applications development methodology/languages, project management and service capabilities with experience in some or all of the architecture disciplines of infrastructure, security, application, cloud, solution, data, or business.
Experienced with large scale technology platforms
Experience with public cloud platforms required, Azure preferred.
Skills and Abilities
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to effectively communicate with LA Blue executives
Innovation and continuous Improvement mindset
Passionate about technology transformations
Ability to execute technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy
Strong understanding of security
Strong negotiating and influencing skills.
Accountabilities and Essential Functions
Directs career development opportunities, provides mentoring to the staff to encourage personal growth and advancement, and promotes delivery of high-quality customer service and team productivity.
Responsible for monitoring emerging technology and applying the functionality to healthcare industry needs.
Collaborates with technology and business areas to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization.
Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
Identifies opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
Directs target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
Oversees alignment of technology initiatives with the target state.
Builds strong partnerships with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction.
Additional Accountabilities and Essential Functions
The Physical Demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the Accountabilities and Essential Functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Perform other job-related duties as assigned, within your scope of responsibilities.
Job duties are performed in a normal and clean office environment with normal noise levels.
Work is predominately done while standing or sitting.
The ability to comprehend, document, calculate, visualize, and analyze are required.