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AZ Blue offers a 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.\nAt 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:\nHybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least twice per week\n\nHybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per week\n\nHybrid 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\n\nOnsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job\n\nRemote: 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\n\nPlease 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.\nThis 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.\nPURPOSE OF THE JOB\nThe Solution Architect will be responsible for the detailed design of technology related projects from inception through production support providing industry best practices as a trusted advisor to key business and technology stakeholders. The Solution Architect will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership and will collaborate closely with various technology teams, vendors, and business partners. The Solution Architect will prepare and deliver highly effective technology solutions; leveraging extensive experience in data engineering (API/Integration/ETL/Micro Services) with full-stack software development. Senior experience across the stack, to effectively identify issues and optimization solutions for efficient data integration across the enterprise landscape (data sources, enterprise data warehouse, API platforms/gateways, consumer endpoints, etc.). The solution architect will work hands on with the engineering teams, with consulting, guidance, support, and mentoring; ensuring the smooth operation of our data-driven initiatives. This includes, but not limited to logical data model design, functional system design, applying best-practice methodologies resulting in solutions that are highly usable, maintainable, scalable, reliable, extensible, secure, and functional.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nRequired Work Experience\n3 years of experience in the industry in similar role\n7 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines in a service-oriented architecture environment (such as architecture, application development, database, security, or infrastructure)\n4 years of experience in the design, implementation and governance of systems architecture in a complex business applications environment\nExperience and background in software development and Agile methodologies\nRequired Education\nHigh School Diploma or GED in general field of study\nRequired Licenses\nN/A\nRequired Certifications\nN/A\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nPreferred Work Experience\n5 years of experience architecting applications in .Net and Microsoft Technologies\n2 years of experience in cloud-based system design\nDemonstrated experience across multiple IT technology domains including software development languages and platforms, infrastructure platforms, data management and database technologies, cloud and networking technologies, and security frameworks.\nExperience in applying Service-Oriented Architecture to solutions.\nDeep knowledge and experience in using and applying API, SOAP, WSDL, JSON, ESB, and XML based solutions.\nExperience and background in project management.\nPreferred Education\nBachelor’s Degree\nPreferred Licenses\nN/A\nPreferred Certifications\nMicrosoft Technical Certifications\nCloud Architect Certification\nESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign and implement the architecture and deployment of high performance, integrated solutions that span multiple application and technology platforms.\nDevelops architecture design documents to facilitate integration of in-house development project and/or vendor based application fitting within the existing enterprise architecture.\nOversee the technical design and development efforts of complex projects from concept to completion.\nEvaluate technology and market trends, recommending innovative solutions that improve our overall architecture.\nCreate and share architecture and design artifacts that clearly convey both intent and rationale.\nDesign appropriate security controls in every solution to ensure the network, applications, and data are not compromised.\nWork closely with implementation teams to ensure alignment of plans with what what is being delivered.\nPropose level of effort projections, functional breakdown (phases, features, user stories, etc.) and technical resource plans to support project managers, scrum masters, product owners and others in the planning process.\nEducate and influence others in order to gain buy-in on proposed roadmaps, strategies, standards and solutions.\nParticipate in architectural review functions and ensure adherence to technology standards and architecture.\nReview current system designs for improvement opportunities and recommend solutions.\nFacilitate communications between IT teams and business stakeholders for technical issues and/or major changes; acting as the technical domain subject matter expert.\nProvide expertise to educate, coach and mentor team members; provide performance feedback to manager(s).\nThe position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any overtime as requested or needed to perform job responsibilities.\nAll other duties as assigned.\nREQUIRED COMPETENCIES\nRequired Job Skills\nStrong knowledge of application security and securing the complete solution\nMastery of coding design patterns and services architecture\nA proven track record of using technology to capitalize on business opportunities and deliver projects on time and on budget consistently.\nProven experience in documenting business processes and creating system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc.\nUnderstands and resolves highly complex large scale or systems level problems. Able to quickly and efficiently troubleshoot such problems utilizing team resources to coordinate solutions\nStrong leadership, partnership, collaboration and teambuilding skills.\nStrong understanding of infrastructure technologies: WAN, LAN, Networking, Firewalls, Security\nStrong understanding of software development methodologies.\nAbility to apply verbal, written and persuasive communication skills to influence others both individually and groups.\nProficient in utilization of audio/visual tools to effectively present to groups and capable of presenting technical information to other functions or groups both inside and outside of the organization\nCollaborate closely with business stakeholders and development teams to ensure the architecture and design is usable, maintainable, scalable, reliable, extensible, secure, portable and functional.\nUnderstand, advocate and augment the standards, best practices and architectural principles that guide solution decisions, development environments, tools, and deployment procedures for the enterprise.\nStrong self-starter, motivated, enthusiastic, risk taker, innovative, and customer service oriented with a record of success.\nExcellent organizational and planning skills.\nAbility to cope with the rapid pace and constant change associated with the industry.\nAbility to successfully manage numerous projects simultaneously.\nAbility to communicate effectively, both oral and written, with internal and external contacts.\nExtensive experience or understanding of services technologies and standards, .NET platform, and Web Service Specifications WS\nTechnical expertise knowledge in: XML and Web Services, XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and GRID.\nExpert in ASP.NET,VB.NET,XML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT / JQUERY, SQL, Content Management Systems, and GUI Development\nStrong understanding of infrastructure architecture and security architecture concepts.\nStrong command of database design concepts\nUndersanding of NoSQL, MS Dynamics CRM technologies and microservices architecture\nFamiliarity with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture in Microsoft BizTalk or other platform\nRequired Professional Competencies\nCustomer focused with strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact professionally at all levels of the organization and across multiple technological and business functions.\nAble to teach others and explain complex concepts with clarity, educating through knowledge sharing presentations and written documents.\nAbility to be self-aware and emotionally intelligent, able to give and receive constructive feedback and continue self-development.\nConfidence to challenge the status quo and lead change in the organization.\nDemonstrated understanding of modern architecture and design.\nMix of creative and technical thinking with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.\nStrong knowledge of IT systems, practices and functional units.\nStrong knowledge of application development, infrastructure and operations.\nAbility to be approachable and develop healthy working relationships across a diverse team.\nAbility to assess a situation, make critical observations and take appropriate risks, using available information.\nAnticipate downstream technical needs and steer architectural designs to appropriately factor in considerations.\nStrong analytical skills to support independent and effective decisions.\nBe driven for results and work effectively with management, project managers, analysts, developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, and testers to conceive, design, and deliver successful solutions.\nAble to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction including business strategy, technology strategy, technical design and implementation\nRequired Leadership Experience and Competencies\nProvide leadership, promote teamwork, and act collaboratively to meet objectives.\nExperience leading teams and implementing projects with both business and technical participants.\nAbility to prioritize tasks and work with multiple priorities, sometimes under limited time contstraints.\nAbility to build consensus with a diverse team in an ever-changing environment.\nPREFERRED COMPETENCIES\nPreferred Job Skills\nExpert knowledge designing highly redundant, scalable, multi-tier enterprise transaction processing systems from front end to back end.\nExperience with cloud architecture.\nKnowledge of HIPAA security and privacy standards.\nIn depth knowledge of healthcare and health plan data structures and business processes and workflows.\nPreferred Professional Competencies\nN/A\nPreferred Leadership Experience and Competencies\nN/A\nOur Commitment\nAZ Blue does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected group.\nThank you for your interest in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. For more information on our company, see azblue.com. 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