Solutions Architect II; Epic)

Solution Architect

This position is hybrid and will require 3 days on site at one of the following Quest sites:
Secaucus, NJ or Schaumburg, IL. Remote:
This position can be 100% remote if not located near a hub within certain criteria.

Pay Range: $,000, plus yearly bonus.

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. Successful candidates may be eligible to receive annual performance bonus compensation.

Benefits Information:
We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits and programs to support employees and their families in living healthy, happy lives. Our pay and benefit plans have been designed to promote employee health in all respects physical, financial, and developmental. Depending on whether it is a part-time or full-time position, some of the benefits offered may include:

• Day 1 Medical, supplemental health, dental & vision for FT employees who work 30+ hours
• Best-in-class well-being programs
• Annual, no-cost health assessment program
• Blueprint for Wellness
• Healthy MINDS mental health program
• Vacation and Health/Flex Time
• 6 Holidays plus 1 MyDay off
• Fin Fit financial coaching and services
• 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth IRA with company match up to 5% after 12 months of service
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Life and disability insurance, plus buy-up option
• Flexible Spending Accounts Annual incentive plans
• Matching gifts program
• Education assistance through MyQuest for Education Career advancement opportunities and so much more!

The Solution Architect proactively leads, designs, and governs scalable, secure end-to-end technical architectures, bridging complex business requirements with modern execution to align with our digital transformation goals.

In this role, you possess overall responsibility for the architecture and design of solutions that encompass multiple enterprise, cloud-native, and strategic applications across diverse departments.

You will drive critical platform evolution by designing secure integrations, orchestrating high-volume transactional databases, and engineering modern enterprise integrations across Quest's highly connected, hybrid-cloud diagnostic ecosystem.

Additionally, you will leverage specialized high-volume transactional databases like Inter Systems IRIS/Cache to manage real-time specimen and clinical data.

The Solutions Architect is responsible for the following:

Interpret Business Needs:

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Work closely with the product owners and managers to ensure a robust architectural runway supporting future business requirements throughout the product life cycle.
• Understands business drivers and capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Example deliverables: Requirements traceability document, business process/capability impact assessment, business process diagrams.

Assess Technology:

• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through the aging of the technologies used by the application or misalignment with business requirements.
• Monitor micro- and macroscopic trends in Enterprise Architecture and global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal, and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making.
• Support product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyze the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
• Analyze the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends improvement solutions.
• Facilitate the evaluation, selection, and TCO of software product standards and services and the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.
• Example deliverables: Current state architecture documentation, vendor assessment for RFP, contribution to cost/benefit analysis, contributions to proof-of-concept implementation

Apply Technology

• Lead evaluation, design, and analysis for implementing solution architecture across specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value streams, business…