Principal Architect - Advance Engineering & Architecture

Principal Architect - Advance Engineering & Architecture

• Full-time
• Department:
  Technology
• Pay Grade: 27

• Define and govern enterprise architecture standards, principles, and best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Develop technology roadmaps aligned with businessobjectivesand modernization initiatives.
• Establish reusable reference architectures, frameworks, and governance processes.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption strategies.
• Identify opportunities toleverageAI for business process improvement and engineering productivity.
• Design and govern enterprise AI solutions, including responsible AI practices.
• Facilitate domain discovery and event storming workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Define bounded contexts, aggregates, domain services, and domain events.

• Enterprise architecture leadership across multiple teams and business units.
• Experienceestablishingarchitecture governance and engineering standards.
• Strong background in modernization initiatives and cloud transformation.
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic technology decisions.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.
• Balance of strategic thinking and hands‑on technical depth.

• Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• Minimum 9 years of experience of which could be any combination of the following:
  Security application experience including program controls, processes, security tools such as encryption at rest, encryption in transit, etc.
• Minimum 4 years of cloud architecture experience, including system integration, application development and system analysis.
• Expert knowledge of network protocols and enterprise network architecture and the ability to research, architect and drive complete technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies.
• Experience securing workloads.
  
  Experience migrating to the public cloud (Amazon, Google, Microsoft).
• Experience managing cloud access security brokers (CASB), including single sign on, authorization, encryption, etc.
• Experience with SQL and No
  
  SQL database systems.
• Demonstrated ability to be a self‑starter who can lead others and focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Flexible and adaptable to change.
• Experience managing and understanding stakeholder issues, providing clear and concise communication and counseling to stakeholders.
• Change agent with the proven ability to influence others by using appropriate skills to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work, reach consensus or take action.
• Experience using strong business knowledge and perspective, synthesize complex information and develop theories to arrive at logical recommendations. Adept at viewing situations from the stakeholder’s perspective to better address their needs and expectations.
• Ability to maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, business processes, work requirements or cultures.
• Ability to coach and mentor others. Provides guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge and skills to accomplish a task or solve a problem, which in turn should improve job performance.
• Travel required up to 5%.

a. Lead and support the management of efforts for highly integrated and complex application, cloud, and system platforms. Responsible for systemperformance/availability and ensuring solutions developed adhere and align to the architecture standards. Proactively oversees the fulfillment of service level agreements and ensures solutions remain current with industry best practices, technologies and within Wellmark’s standards.

b. Effectively manage and influence the design and implementation of technology solutions, to systematically address security issues and develop secure coding practices. Develop security patterns and Enterprise Control Frameworks, assists in complex integrations and works cross‑functionally with business and Platform Engineer, Solution Architects and other…