Architect Telecommute

Title: Architect

Position: Contract

Work Location: Telecommute

Work Hours: 9am-5pm day

Description:

Top 5-10 responsibilities for this position:

• Ensuring capital programs stay aligned to Enterprise strategy while leveraging existing components and capabilities across the business segment landscape.
• Modeling the technical landscape to analyze the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology and IT solutions.
• Analyzing the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and collaborating with Enterprise Architecture from other lines of business and development team architects to recommend solutions for improvement.
• Communicating the value delivered by the Enterprise Architecture process by communicating outcomes and ongoing results.
• Defining the principles that guide technology decisions for the segment.
• Designing the implementations of a Line of Business Technology Architecture (reference architecture) based on business requirements and IT strategies, as well as being a champion to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state.
• Influencing the development, communication, and implementation of the enterprise technology architecture.
• Building end-to-end solution plans in the form of roadmaps that define the ideal and future state systems solution, scope of solution initiatives, solution delivery sequencing through architecture transition states, and assumptions and risks.
• Assisting with the governance activities associated with ensuring Enterprise Technology Architecture compliance.
• Collaborating with quality teams to drive continuous improvement for technology solutions.
• Identifying and communicating the segment organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, org structures and culture) and financial impact of the Enterprise.

Ideal candidate background:

Healthcare experience is preferred.

Skills/attributes are required:

• 8+ years of experience on working as solution, enterprise, and application architect for a large organization.
• 5+ years of experience with working as on architect with multiple development teams and writing detail design documents.
• 8+ years of experience with software development experience working on Open source, commercially available software and / or Healthcare platforms.
• 4+ years of experience with, MQ, API Gateway, Release Management Tools, and Open-Source Commercial grade highly scalable solutions.
• 4+ years of experience in writing best practices, architecture roadmaps, and framework documents.
• 4+ years of experience with multiple enterprise deployment strategies in public and private cloud paradigm.
• 2+ years of experience working with vendors in system selection, cost negotiation, and the development of service level agreements.
• 4+ years of experience with designing and developing microservices/API.
• 4+ years of hand on experience with .NET or Java.
• 4+ years of experience with authorization frameworks like oAuth 2.0, SAML or OpenID Connect.
• 2+ years of experience with APM tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk.

Skills/attributes are preferred:

• Health care industry experience.
• Azure Cloud experience.
• Demonstrated time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills.
• Experience with NoSQL database like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
• Experience with RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Redis.
• Experience with event steaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Demonstrated ability to create a Startup mentality to accelerate the introduction of new capabilities and transform teams.
• Experience with Linux or Unix platform.