Principal Solution Architect - Data Focus

Job Description Blue Cross NC is seeking a highly experienced Principal Solution Architect (Data Focus) to provide enterprise-level architecture leadership across complex business and technology initiatives. This role serves as a strategic technology leader responsible for defining solution direction, reviewing enterprise designs, guiding large-scale technical investments, and ensuring solutions align with business outcomes, architecture standards, security requirements, and long-term technology strategy.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, cloud-native platforms, integration technologies, AI-enabled solutions, and modern software engineering practices. This individual will influence architecture direction across multiple domains while mentoring architects and engineering teams throughout the organization.

What You’ll DoLead enterprise architecture efforts by defining solution strategies, architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference models that support business and technology objectives.

Serve as the lead architect for complex initiatives, providing architectural direction across business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and delivery organizations.

Design and govern scalable enterprise data architectures, ensuring alignment with data quality, governance, metadata management, analytics, compliance, and business requirements.

Drive architecture decisions across modern technology ecosystems, including cloud platforms, data and analytics solutions, system integrations, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and application development.

Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, governance processes, and security requirements to ensure consistent, scalable, and resilient solutions.

Evaluate emerging technologies, conduct proofs of concept, and recommend innovative solutions that improve business outcomes and accelerate technology modernization.

Identify and mitigate technical risks, architecture gaps, and solution dependencies while ensuring solutions meet performance, reliability, scalability, resiliency, and security requirements.

Guide architecture activities throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), partnering with Agile delivery teams to ensure successful solution implementation.

Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to architects, engineers, and technology teams while promoting architecture best practices and continuous improvement.

Influence strategic technology decisions and effectively communicate architectural vision, recommendations, and trade-offs to executive and technical audiences

What You Bring Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)8+ years of experience in related  lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field.

Bonus Points Experience developing enterprise technology strategies and leading large-scale architecture initiatives.

Deep expertise in two or more areas including Data & Analytics, Cloud, Software Development, Integration, Infrastructure, or Security Architecture.

Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture, solution design, software development methodologies, and SDLC practices.

Experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data platforms, analytics solutions, and data governance capabilities.

Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, modern integration patterns, APIs, and platform engineering practices.

Experience evaluating emerging technologies and delivering AI-enabled business solutions.

Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, leadership, mentoring, and change management capabilities.

What You’ll Get The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community …