Role: SOLUTION ARCHITECT (DIGITAL)  

Location: Hartford, CT

Duration: Full time/SubCon

Job Description:

Fundamental Components:

• Leads technology strategy, architecture system of record and support business systems delivery.
• Collects requirements for approved projects and aggregates resource demand by the supplier and by role.
• Communicates the architectural strategy throughout all levels of the Health Care Business organization. Produces quality output for highly visible
• IT products, services, and future business development."
• Acts as the primary technical resource across several areas of expertise, to senior client and information technology management and staff. 
• Provides expert technical consultation to senior IT management strategic planning groups. 
• Leads development of solutions with high complexity and risk with business area implications. 
• Fosters and engages in teamwork at all technical levels and across the business lines. 
• Be viewed as a subject matter and technology delivery expert for the business organization by a wide range of management. 
• Anticipates and proactively responds to future customer, industry and IT trends. 
• Advances capabilities for the enterprise to enable automation/integration across hybrid processing environments (AI, Cloud, API, Web, Micro Services).
• Develops business models to guide the development of the architecture and manage standard technical product life cycle. 

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience in enterprise, application, and information architecture design with significant experience managing the application delivery process.
• 7+ years of recent and relevant experience in information systems architecture and methodologies.
• 5+ years of experience in project management and/or leading architecture in big programs. 
• Experience with the development of enterprise architectures in large corporate environments and strong verbal, presentation and written communication skills are a must.
• Must demonstrate technical leadership, be able to turn vision into action, drive outcomes, and promote common goals and actions.
• Strong understanding of Application Integration using IBM Technologies and RestFul APIs
• Familiarity with designing and developing distributed mobile and web applications, AuthN and AuthZ using Oauth and OIDC protocols
• Must demonstrate an understanding of enterprise integration across hybrid processing environments (AI, Cloud, API, Web, Micro Services, Data Model patterns).
• Position requires expert knowledge across multiple platforms, integration patterns, processes, data/domain models, and architectures.
• Candidates must demonstrate an understanding of the following disciplines: enterprise architecture, business architecture, information architecture, application architecture, and integration architecture."
• Ability to focus on business solutions and understand how to achieve them according to the given timeframes and resources.
• Experience managing matrixed staff with the ability to leverage non-directs to complete tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate complex and often contentious issues and reach consensus and work through people to achieve key goals.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills including formal presentations for all levels of management combined with strong collaboration/influencing.
• Experience with architecture modeling tools and maintaining architectural artifacts - Strong UML experience along with skill in MEGA, RSA archer or similar tools.
• Recognized as an expert/thought leader. Anticipates and solves highly complex problems with broad impact on a business area.
• Experience with Agile Methodology including Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Demonstrates longevity in previous roles with the ability to lead and sustain long-term architecture evolution in an enterprise.
• Healthcare or Insurance/Financial services experience and industry knowledge is highly desired.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.