Associate Architect

Company : enGen Job Description :  JOB SUMMARY ***CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)*** Within area of expertise (application, solution, information, technology, business), assists in design, development, implementation, support, and optimization of architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs.  Assists in ensuring completeness of architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders.  Assists in ensuring integrity of architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing.  Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to develop.  Leverages business and technology knowledge to enable and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations and systems.  Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices.  ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Assists in providing strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing less complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitates development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development. Assists in specifying and designing less complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Reviews others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Assists in using appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes.  Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly. Assists in selecting and using tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.  Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which less complex products or systems will operate. Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement. Assists in ensuring the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems and serves as a technical or business resource for  less complex project initiatives. Communicates effectively with all levels of organization Manages expectations of customers, partners  and management Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of less complex requirements for peers and other staff. Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application.  The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area. Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: Preparing presentations on less complex issues on the area of expertise Presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction. Other duties as assigned or requested. EDUCATION Required Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field Substitutions   6 years of related experience in lieu of a 4 year degree Preferred None EXPERIENCE Required None Preferred Health insurance industry business knowledge LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS Required None Preferred Industry certifications SKILLS   An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs. Skills: IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing COBAL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS Java/JavaScript Framework PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML Project Management Tools: Waterfall Agile Certification in application areas such as: Java Developer DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS Position Type Office-based Teaches / trains others regularly Occasionally Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Rarely Works primarily out-of-the office selling