Digital Application 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 offersa 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.

The Digital Application Architect will be responsible for the solution design of applications in all digital technology projects from inception through production support, providing industry best practices and acting as a trusted advisor to key business and technology stakeholders. The Application Architect will lead/oversee the technical design, analysis, user story definition, logical data model design, functional system design, data manipulation, testing, post-implementation review, specifications and documentation based on business requirements.

This role will oversee the development of effective technology solutions that are highly maintainable, reliable, easily extensible, scalable, and secure.

Further, the Application Architect will be responsible for developing security improvements for the company’s customer facing websites and backend applications and serve as a SME on website and application-related projects. The role will work with digital teams to implement emerging security technologies/tools to address current and future threats and creates and maintains documentation as it relates to security designs/configuration, processes, and requirements.

• 7 years of experience with application design and development.
• 3 years of experience architecting applications in .Net and Microsoft Technologies
• 3 years of experience in implementation and integration of digital enterprise-level applications in a complex business environment
• 2 years of experience in implementing or enhancing application security.

• High School Diploma

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• 5 years of experience architecting applications in .Net and Microsoft Technologies
• 2 years of experience in cloud-based system design
• Demonstrated experience across multiple IT technology domains including software development languages and platforms, design…