Enterprise Architect, Principal - Facets

Job Description

Your Role

The Enterprise Architecture & Innovation team helps manage and align Blue Shield of California's technology infrastructure with its business goals, ensuring that independently conceived and deployed solutions do not lead to unnecessarily complicated and expensive siloed systems. It defines the enterprise business & technology capabilities and their relationships to run, grow, and transform the business. The Enterprise Architect, Principal will report to the Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture, Business Portfolios and Application Architecture. In this role, you will combine a deep understanding of technology, applications, industry best practices, business processes, and architectural patterns to drive business and IT transformation initiatives that meet our enterprise objectives. In this role, you will collaborate with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, engineers, and analysts to understand strategic business initiatives and develop technical solutions that satisfy those needs. This individual has extensive knowledge in multiple business and architecture domains, is forward-thinking, and is well-versed in emerging technologies and trends. Must possess the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture function to critical business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture blueprints that articulate our business strategy, future state business and technology architecture, and multiyear execution roadmap
• Collaborate with other architects to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services
• Develop and maintain reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns, and usage guidelines
• Create contextual and conceptual models that help document and simplify potentially complex topics
• Manage the creation and maintenance of models that identify interdependencies between business units, roles, associated capabilities, and technologies
• Develop reference architecture for migration of Facets to Azure, including the definition of application, data, integration, and infrastructure layers
• Define integration architecture for interfaces between Facets, Snowflake data warehouse, and several major business applications
• Develop solution architecture for various business initiatives that have a dependency on core administrative processes

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Science, Engineering or similar discipline, or equivalent experience, and at least 10 years relevant business and IT experience
• Requires at least 3 years of experience in an architecture role
• Deep understanding of healthcare and industry technologies is critical
• At least 3 years of experience working in the healthcare industry preferred
• Master's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines is preferred
• Requires a strong track record of architectural practice and success in a large environment
• Enterprise Architecture Methodology certification preferred
• Experience developing solution architectures for Core Administrative Process Systems such as TriZetto Facets or similar
• Experience developing solution architectures for large-scale SaaS ERP systems such as Oracle Fusion Clouds of experience in an architecture role

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About the Team

Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of California's top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities - join us!

Our Values:

• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Our Workplace Model:

At Blue Shield of California, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:
  
  • Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.