Sr. Enterprise Architect - Hybrid

Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:

• Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least twice per week

• Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per week

• Hybrid 2 (Operational Roles such as but not limited to: Customer Service, Claims Processors, and Correspondence positions): must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month

• Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job

• Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building

Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per week.

This position is hybrid within the state of AZ only. This hybrid work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.

• Provide strategic consultation to business areas, working alongside them to construct roadmaps/ blueprints outlining current areas of need as well as potential areas of growth. Devise strategies for leveraging current /future technology to best service our business partners while ensuring Information Technology’s ability to support these initiatives. Assess long-term needs, market trends and technology disruptors and advise on their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.

• Participate in the enterprise architecture development including: articulating of the architecture vision, modeling the data, application and technical architectures and application portfolio management. Follow the EA process, selecting principles to guide design decisions, and applying appropriate governance and compliance activities. Deliver results to the organization based on business requirements and IT strategies.

• Collaborate with the project management office on implementation plans that move toward the target enterprise architecture and align projects with architecture strategies and roadmaps. Consult with application development, security and infrastructure teams to ensure technology solutions are designed for optimal security, support, interoperability and enterprise usefulness.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

• 5 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as architecture, application development, information analysis, IT management or operations) in a large IT environment
• 3 years of experience in a business-facing role (such as strategic business planning, business analysis, product owner, consultant or project management).

Required Education

• Associate’s degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience.

Required Licenses

• N/A

Required Certifications

• N/A

Preferred Work Experience

• 3 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role
• 3 years of experience in the Healthcare industry, especially the payer space

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field

Preferred Licenses

• N/A

Preferred Certifications

• Enterprise Architecture framework (such as TOGAF 9.1, Zachman, FEAF or similar)
• ITIL v3+ Practitioner Certification.

• Establish enterprise standards, strategies,…