Job Description

Resp & Qualifications

PURPOSE:

Leads the planning, development, and application of enterprise architecture to achieve business strategies and transformations. Possesses a strong understanding of multiple business areas in the enterprise. Supports development and utilization of the IT strategy and enterprise architecture work products, including blueprints, reference models, standards, and guidelines. Supports architecture governance, including the review and assessment of solution architectures for alignment with the IT strategy and enterprise architecture. Supports the identification, evaluation, and selection of COTS solutions and platforms, ensuring optimization of the enterprise technology portfolio.
Provides EA services and support to one or more business areas and/or enterprise architecture functions, i.e., application portfolio management, ARB operations, technology planning.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Architecture Development: Develop review, approve, and maintain enterprise architecture blueprints and roadmaps. Analyze pain points and opportunities that transcend business areas and propose enterprise strategies or solutions. Identify, develop and maintain reusable architecture patterns and reference models. Ensure alignment across architecture and business domains and traceability to business and IT strategy.

Architecture Consulting: Provide guidance to domain and solution architects to ensure that solution architectures align with IT strategies and enterprise blueprints, standards, and guidelines. Researches, develops, documents, and analyzes enterprise architectures (including business, enterprise information environment, intelligence processes, and IT) to identify mission capability gaps, overlaps, and shortfalls.

Strategy Development: Lead the development and execution of enterprise and domain-specific IT strategies, standards, and guidelines. Engage in business strategy development to identify new business capability and technology-driven opportunities and ensure alignment and prioritization of IT strategy.

Architecture Practice Development: Support the development, tailoring, and enhancement of enterprise architecture frameworks, methods, and tools. Ensure the alignment and integration of enterprise architecture processes and deliverables with those of other architecture and SDLC disciplines. Contribute to development of enterprise architecture communications and education materiel for use with business and technical stakeholders or partners. Prepares and publishes formal architecture documents, produces architecture development plans and reports, and presents staff actions to customers (e.g., white papers, briefings).

Architecture Governance: Represent Enterprise Architecture in solution architecture peer reviews and architecture governance forums. Support the operations of the Architecture Review Board.

Planning and Operations: Assess projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture. Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to enterprise architecture.

Solution Assessment: Represent Enterprise Architecture in the identification and evaluation of solution alternatives, including the drafting and/or review of RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation of vendor proposals.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR in lieu of a bachelor\'s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Experience:

• 10 years Related professional IT engineering experience leading multiple business facing enterprise level cross domain engineering initiatives OR
• 8 years progressive experience in multiple Domain Architecture or Solutions Architecture leading multiple business facing enterprise level architecture initiatives OR
• 6 years\' experience in Enterprise Architecture leading multiple business facing enterprise architecture initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

• Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high quality solutions.
• Ability to coach peers and team members.
• Ability to manage cross-domain architecture solutions and issues.
• Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration. methods and tools.
• Expertise with domain related architecture frameworks, methods and tools.
• Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.

Department

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Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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Actual salary will be based on relevant job experience and work history.

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Federal Disc/Physical Demand

Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.

Sponsorship in US

Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship

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