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.

• Lead 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.

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

• 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.

• The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community
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