GRC Technology Architect - Archer Development

Company : Highmark Health

Within area of expertise (application, solution, information, technology, business), designs, develops, implements, supports, and enables Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) architecture and technology solutions to meet business capabilities and needs. Ensures completeness of GRC solutions architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders. Ensures integrity of GRC solutions architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing.

Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining GRC architecture to develop and/or improve upon. Leverages industry, business, technology, risk, and compliance knowledge to enable and/or improve business processes, practices, organizations, and systems. Supports collaboration with others across the enterprise to provide solutions and recommendations in order to consolidate data repositories, information, GRC tools and other technology resources by centralizing them under common GRC solutions.

Adheres to service levels, prepares reporting and other customer communications. Adheres to quality standards, configuration practices and procedures, and supports the realization of measurable business benefits. Works independently and in cross-functional team environments while also assisting with special assignments, as needed.

EDUCATION

• Defines, designs, and continuously improves business processes, risk and compliance functions through the use of technology. Develops and configures the enterprise risk, governance, compliance and business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, compliance and regulatory requirements, and process facilitation techniques. Collaborates with company customers, staff, IT colleagues, and other stakeholders in identifying customer requirements, assessing impacts to other areas, considering available options, comparing costs and benefits, and recommending solutions.
  
  Takes initiative, demonstrates a proactive mindset and is comfortable working in a highly matrixed environment.
• Specifies and designs GRC technology systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, and processes. Assists with selection of appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on solution design and implementation options. Develops approach and consults with others to ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Tests and validates system configurations.
  
  Collaborates with customers and other stakeholders in order to maintain and to improve data quality.
• Works with customers to establish, conceptualize, and align expectations with a focus on GRC process automation; facilitates requirements evaluation/rationalization activities; translates customer expectations into written artifacts. Assists with preparation and monitoring of project plans, task-based budgets and milestones. Develops, maintains and communicates project status reports to business and technical stakeholders as well as senior leadership, as needed. Executes data access governance processes, procedures, and related review activities including user profile and provisioning process updates.
• Performs detailed component requirements gathering and analysis, collection of customer and technology and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Documents technical aspects of system development, configuration, testing, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.), process transformation, and project management artifacts using standard templates. Assists with upgrades, testing and other solution validation activities.
• Communicates effectively with multiple levels of organization, assists with managing expectations of customers, partners and management. Performs customer walkthroughs, timelines and plans; design and technical…