Senior Domain Architect (BET) Position Available In East Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Senior Domain Architect (BET)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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This Senior Domain Architect Position is within the Business Engineering Department.

POSITION PURPOSE

Guided by BCBSLA’s Reference Architecture, Standards, and Corporate Strategy the Senior Domain Architect is responsible for guiding of a domain’s technical roadmap to support future business and technical projects. Ensuring sound, sustainable and economically viable design, striking the right balance between enterprise and functional needs in full alignment with and support of BCBSLA Application and Technology Portfolios, Enterprise Data Sourcing Model with a focus on increased operational efficiency, reliability, predictability and long-term economic viability while reducing technical debt. Accountable for complying with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities.

NATURE AND SCOPE

This role does not manage people
This job reports to: Departmental Leadership

Necessary Contacts:

do this job effectively the incumbent has to be in contact with:

All levels of BCBSLA personnel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, other Blue Plans, and a limited number of external community/industry organizations.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education
Bachelor’s Computer Science, Information Science, Analytics or other technical programs including mathematics, applied physics or similar discipline required
Four years of related experience can be used in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
Work Experience
4 years technical leadership and hands-on technology implementation to include four years’ experience in software development, DevSecOps engineering, systems administration, systems architecture, or data management required
Requires advanced knowledge of Enterprise Architecture practice, ALM, software development best practices and standards, and demonstrable experience in leading business application solution design, and implementation of complex business initiatives.
Must have expertise in one of the following domains:
Data Architecture
Data Delivery
Data Governance
Integration Architecture
Infrastructure Architecture
Cloud Computing Architecture
Digital & Digital Marketing Architecture
Security Architecture
Healthcare Core Administrative Systems
Enterprise Provider Management Systems
Care & Disease Management Systems
Enterprise Resource Planning – Finance or Human Resources
Enterprise Customer Relationship Management
DevSecOps
Azure
AWS
PREFERRED

QUALIFICATIONS

Healthcare industry experience
Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements, such as HIPAA preferred.
TOGAF certifications or like
ITIL certifications
Vendor certifications
Skills and Abilities
Additional advanced skills in the following areas:
Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
Strong leadership skills
Excellent analytical and technical skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent planning and organizational skills
Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations
Ability to estimate the financial impact of alternatives
Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
Knowledge of many, if not most, aspects of an Enterprise Target Architecture
Knowledge of information principles and processes
Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
Understanding of network and security architecture
Understanding of the political climate of the enterprise, and how to respond to political challenges
Licenses and Certifications
None Required

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Have Accountability and/or Responsibility to following key operational

Deliverables:

Develop and maintain domain’s roadmap
Support of solution architects
Collaboration with enterprise business architects
Collaboration with business owners at all levels, transforming business requirements into solutions
Facilitation of deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends
Exposes data to support metrics associated with Domain Architecture practice to demonstrate increasing maturity and value
Understanding business application and industry trends in relation to the Payer Market, identifying, building a business case for and socializing select and relevant innovation opportunities with likelihood of success, and performing POC as warranted
Architecture SME (and designated Chair as needed) for Architecture Review Board (ARB) and facilitation of review, impact analysis, documentation, recommendation and formal publication of BCBSLA Technical Standards and measurement of adherence to these Standards
Provide architectural leadership for development efforts by integrating various technologies such as web applications, relational databases, information security, servers, networking, etc
Provide high-level analysis and design reviews to solve conceptual problems and avoid duplication of efforts of same errors within different applications.
Work with vendors to integrate their technologies within organization’s structure
Evaluate new technologies and recommend extension, expansion, and update of technology standards, practices, and methodologies
Creation of guiding principles and standards to guide engineers and the enterprise for the domain
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.