Application Architect

PBC Solutions is looking for Regular Fulltime Application Architect to join our growing team!

About PBC Solutions:
PBC Solutions has been recognized as one of British Columbias Top Employers for 2025!
PBC Solutions Ltd. was created in 2022 as a wholly owned subsidiary of PBC Health Benefits Society (operating as Pacific Blue Cross) #1 health benefits provider in BC. Our mandate is to design transform and deliver the benefits and claims administration services offered by governments and other large organizations along with our consortium partners DXC Advanced Solutions NTT DATA and EY.

Since the spring of 2023 PBC Solutions administers and leads the transformation and digitization of Health Insurance BC Services (HIBC) on behalf of the BC Ministry of Health. HIBC Services administers medicallynecessary insured doctor and hospital services through the Medical Services Plan (MSP) and drug coverage through the PharmaCare and Fair PharmaCare programs. In the future the business will expand to additional public and private client work.

Position Summary
As a key member of the Information Management & Information Technology (IMIT)Application Services team the Application Architect will:

• Provide strategic business and technology consulting to enable effective decision making on information technology investments.
• Apply industry and information technology expertise to conduct feasibility studies develop proposals and design solutions in support of existing services and business growth.
• Work collaboratively with others to ensure architecture is aligned with business requirements.
• Document develop and maintain the highlevel knowledge and design for the overall architecture of applications and security components for a particular solution.
• Plan conduct and supervise complex assignments; as well as design and apply new methods and procedures.
• Design develop evaluate and integrate business services operating systems and databases.
• Lead multideveloper projects and providing supervision guidance expertise and direction to all members of the team.

This position is designated as a Grid Level 32 with a range of $121092 $139245 per year. This includes a Temporary Market Adjustment Adjustment (TMA) of 11.8.

Primary Duties
Provides leadership consulting and strategic direction

• Provides direction and mentoring to staff in application development.
• Provides application and database design consulting expertise direction and assistance to other team members.
• Anticipates obstacles and thinks through the likely impact of the alternative proposals/solutions.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends and provides regular briefing updates to client management.
• Researches new features software and tools.
• Verifies stability interoperability portability security and scalability of application architecture.
• Keeps uptodate on emerging application design and database architectures technologies and methodologies.
• Quickly assess multifaceted problems and complex situations.
• Recognizes patterns and distinguishes the root cause.
• Analyzes and interprets data and draws inferences.

Ensures enterprisewide application design standards are maintained

• Creates applicable reference architecture and application design standards.
• Evaluates application development practices and creates development standards policies and procedures.
• Ensures application design and development policies are adhered to.
• Develops architecture and security strategy plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices.
• Maintains deep knowledge of the product architecture and of the technologies used.
• Maintains technical documentation of the solutions.
• Documents and develops indepth knowledge of the application/sand security components.

Liaison with clients and partners

• Facilitates collaboration with clients to transform requirements into effective solutions.
• Consults with and advises clients on business solutions.
• Works with internal and external partners to provide innovative solutions to business problems.

Project Delivery

• Is accountable for architectural deliverables.
• Oversees developments and changes in the digital business to ensure they are adequately addressed in architecture and security strategy plans and updates artifacts.
• Reports updates proactively.
• Escalates issues in a timely manner.
• Ensures closure and resolution of the same.
• Builds checks in the team to ensure timely escalations.
• Identifies key and highrisk components.

Performs other related duties as required including:

• Works with leadership to assist with financial planning and management.
• Participates in planning of software maintenance releases.
• Assists in the preparation of documents in support of procurement of goods and services.
• Represents Information Technology at advisory and user group meetings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience
University degree in a related field or a suitable combination of education and previous work experience. A related field includes the following:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5 years of experience; OR
• Diploma in Computer Science and 7 years of experience; OR
• Certificate or program completion in Computer Science or some course work in Computer Science and 12 years of experience.

Related experience includes the following:

• Extensive experience in technologyrelated field (developer network admin security analyst architecture) and in delivering COTSbased technology solutions in a complex environment.
• Experience in the healthcare industry considered an asset.
• Experience managing and leading virtual crossfunctional teams including defining requirements developing designs and project plans and delivering results.
• Experience in developing largescale enterprise business solutions in a multiplatform environment.
• Experience in physical/implementation architectures to ensure scalable performance.
• Experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broadbased team.
• Experience with Systems Development Life Cycle process.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge and understanding of Enterprise Architecture process and frameworks.
• Knowledge and technical expertise of current and emerging systems development methodologies techniques tools and industry best practices in developing flexible and reuseable designs to support software environments and integration activities.
• Knowledge of the principles practices and tools of project management.
• Act as an advocate for ensuring that the application architecture aligns with the overall enterprise architecture goals.
• Work with other IT groups develop and maintain an application roadmap that provides reduced overall complexity and increased cost efficiency.
• Handson experience with business requirements analysis.
• Proven experience in components design and development.
• Ability to ensure a complete accurate and valid inventory of all systems infrastructure and applications.
• Excellent understanding of high availability and secure architectures.
• Proven experience understanding Health industry challenges like privacy vulnerability security etc. is an asset.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain code using a variety of programming languages such as Delphi C# C Java JavaScript XML XSLTis an asset.
• Experience in the development of Restful APls would be considered an asset.
• Knowledge of Natural Cobol Node.js Angular Docker Elastic Search Keycloak and UX would be considered an asset.
• Deep experience in database designing primarily Oracle.
• Cloud hosting experience would be considered an asset.
• Leadership and direction setting through technical subject matter expertise.
• Ability to communicate concisely both verbal and written at a level consistent with the audiences level of understanding.
• Ability to supervise a team of IT professionals.

Required Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Integrity and Trust
• Ethics and Values
• Motivating Others
• Drive for Results
• Building Effective Teams
• Priority Setting
• Decision Quality
• Business Acumen
• Organizing

Travel / Work Location: PBC Solutions operates in Victoria and Vancouver with a hybrid work model. Candidates are preferably located in one of these locations to be able to attend occasional inperson meetings.

Whats in it for you
We offer a robust health & dental benefits plan with flexible options that will meet you and your familys needs. We also offer a Defined Benefit Pension Plan (PSPP) for all eligible employees as well as various generous paid leaves.

We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and employees feel empowered to freely participate and contribute regardless of race ethnicity gender or gender identity sexual orientation religion ability education level parental status or socioeconomic status.

PBC Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

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Does this opportunity resonate with you
Are you seeking a work environment that will challenge you provide stretch opportunities and support your success and growth Then youve found your ideal work environment Apply today please! Wed love to talk with you to explore this opportunity further with you.

Please note if selected for this opportunity you will be required to undergo a background check in accordance with PBC Solutions policies.

We sincerely thank all candidates for their interest however only those selected to continue in the recruitment process will be contacted.

Please apply by April 7 2025 by 4:00 PM PST. An eligibility list may be established for this position.

How we work

Our Guiding Principles

Honesty We will be truthful. We will create a safe environment to communicate proactively openly and with respect. We will be transparent and genuine with our interests.

Integrity We will act consistently to do the right thing and ensure our words and actions align. Embracing opportunities and challenges we will live our shared values and vision.

Reciprocity We will strive for fair and balanced exchanges leveraging our unique strengths and resources recognizing this requires an ongoing give and take. We will win and lose as one.

Autonomy We respect and acknowledge the interests of each party. We trust each other to make decisions and act based on our diverse strengths to achieve our mutually desired outcomes.

Loyalty We will be bold brave and committed to our relationship. As partners we will advocate for one another celebrate our successes and have each others back through our challenges.

Equity We commit to a balanced partnership. We will make decisions and act based on a fair assessment of capabilities risks constraints and opportunities to achieve mutual success.

Our Intended Behaviours

Communication We actively communicate in a timely open respectful and responsive manner with the intent to gain understanding and find solutions.

Flexibility We will be agile adaptable and creative to enable responsive service delivery and embrace challenges and change with an openminded and positive attitude.

Perspective We seek to understand interests assumptions actions and diverse backgrounds by actively sharing and exploring all points of view.

Focus We will use our Shared Vision as our North Star to evaluate prioritize and deliver successful results.

Trust & Confidence We lead with trust. We consistently behave in ways that earn and inspire confidence by being credible reliable and transparent even when vulnerable.

Feedback No surprises. We will maintain a strong relationship through timely purposeful feedback in a safe respectful and collaborative environment.

Solutionoriented We see possibilities rather than limitations. We use our diverse capabilities to develop options to resolve our challenges.