{"id":2469460,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology","title":"Portfolio Architect - Information Technology","company":{"id":1049212,"name":"Bluecross","domain":"bluecross.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/bluecross-ca","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":69000,"max_usd":140000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":68},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-04T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-04","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T12:26:53Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-28T12:26:53Z","days_open":54,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":54},"description":"Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do-and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.\nWorking at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.\nOVERVIEW:\nWe have exciting opportunities for several Portfolio Architect roles to join our Enterprise Architecture team. Reporting to the Chief Architect, these are senior individual contributor roles accountable for owning the target architecture and modernization roadmap for defined technology or business portfolios, ensuring technology investments are coherent, sequenced, fundable, and aligned to enterprise priorities.\nCurrent anticipated portfolio roles include Customer Portfolio Architect, Operations Portfolio Architect, Corporate Portfolio Architect, and IT 4 IT Portfolio Architect. Additional or adjusted portfolio assignments may be considered as organizational needs evolve.\nThe Portfolio Architect operates as the bridge between Enterprise Architecture direction and delivery execution, translating corporate and IT strategy, architectural guardrails, reference architecture target states, risk posture, and IT leadership priorities into practical roadmaps that delivery teams can execute against with confidence.\nThis is a strategic portfolio architecture role, not a solution design, development leadership, delivery management, product ownership, or domain architecture position. The role ensures initiatives advance Alberta Blue Cross as an integrated enterprise system rather than optimizing locally at the expense of customer experience, integration, cost-to-serve, security, operational resilience, or long-term sustainability.\nWhile these are not people leader roles and do not include direct people-management accountability, they are senior architecture roles with significant influence across portfolio planning, investment alignment, delivery enablement, and formal architecture governance.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO:\nInterpret corporate and IT strategy, Enterprise Architecture direction, business priorities, and portfolio context into practical architecture guidance.\n\nDevelop and maintain portfolio architecture views that clarify current state, target state, transition states, dependencies, risks, and sequencing considerations.\n\nAssess impacts across business capabilities, platforms, integrations, data, security, operations, customer experience, regulatory obligations, and delivery readiness.\n\nPrepare decision-ready options, recommendations, and implications for portfolio planning, investment sequencing, and architecture governance discussions.\n\nCollaborate with IT leadership, EPMO, Finance, business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Domain Architects, Solution Architects, and delivery teams to align plans and resolve ambiguity.\n\nProvide portfolio guardrails and context to Solution Architects and delivery teams without taking ownership of detailed solution design, engineering, delivery management, or sprint-level decisions.\n\nIdentify and escalate material risks, unresolved trade-offs, duplication, dependency gaps, or drift from target state through established governance forums.\n\nPOSITION SCOPE:\nReport to the Chief Architect as senior individual contributors within the Enterprise Architecture organization.\n\nMay be classified at the Manager or Director level depending on applicant experience, portfolio complexity, stakeholder scope, enterprise impact, and demonstrated seniority.\n\nSupport portfolios such as Customer, Operations, Corporate, IT 4 IT, or other portfolios aligned to enterprise priorities.\n\nExercise leadership through influence, architecture direction, stakeholder alignment, and decision framing rather than direct people-management authority.\n\nRemain distinct from Solution Architecture, development leadership, product ownership, delivery management, and domain architecture roles.\n\nDo not directly manage people, design detailed solutions, own sprint-level decisions, approve or reject solutions unilaterally, manage delivery teams, take over development work, or own formal governance outcomes.\n\nKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:\nAccountable for the architectural coherence of the assigned portfolio, including alignment to enterprise strategy, principles, reference architectures, and approved guardrails.\n\nAccountable for the portfolio target architecture and roadmap remaining current, actionable, and connected to business outcomes, investment planning, delivery capacity, and modernization priorities.\n\nAccountable for making major architectural risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and target-state deviations visible to senior stakeholders and governance forums.\n\nAccountable for enabling consistent, transparent, and traceable architecture decision support for portfolio planning, sequencing, ARB readiness, and formal governance outcomes.\n\nKEY SUCCESS MEASURES:\nAdopted portfolio architecture direction: Target architecture and roadmap are understood, current, and used by IT leadership, EPMO, Finance, Solution Architects, and delivery teams to guide planning and execution.\n\nImproved investment and sequencing decisions: Portfolio priorities are supported by clear architectural rationale, dependency visibility, trade-off analysis, affordability considerations, and alignment to corporate and IT strategy.\n\nReduced architectural friction: Major risks, technical debt patterns, duplication, and target-state deviations are identified earlier, resulting in fewer late-stage escalations, avoidable rework, and unresolved delivery constraints.\n\nStronger governance readiness: Initiatives entering ARB or related governance forums have clear portfolio context, decision options, risk framing, and traceable alignment to enterprise principles and guardrails.\n\nClearer role alignment and delivery enablement: Stakeholders understand where Portfolio Architecture adds value, how it differs from Solution Architecture and development delivery, and how portfolio guardrails enable rather than duplicate delivery work.\n\nWHAT YOU WILL HAVE:\nBachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.\n\nExperience in the life and health insurance industry is a strong asset, particularly where it includes exposure to customer experience, claims, benefits administration, regulatory obligations, data privacy, digital services, or insurance technology modernization.\n\n10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, portfolio architecture, technology strategy, solution architecture, or senior technology advisory roles; Manager or Director classification will reflect demonstrated seniority, scope, and enterprise impact.\n\nDemonstrated ability to define target architecture, transition states, modernization roadmaps, and sequencing recommendations for complex portfolios or transformation programs.\n\nStrong understanding of enterprise architecture practices, including architecture principles, reference architectures, governance, guardrails, technology lifecycle management, technical debt, risk, regulatory obligations, and operational constraints.\n\nExperience with enterprise architecture tools or repository platforms is an asset, including use of these solutions to model capabilities, applications, technologies, roadmaps, dependencies, standards, risks, and architecture decisions.\n\nExperience influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams across IT, business, EPMO, Finance, architecture, product, and delivery groups without relying on direct reporting authority.\n\nAbility to assess cross-domain impacts across business capabilities, applications, data, integration, digital experience, cloud, security, identity, platforms, operations, and customer outcomes.\n\nExcellent communication, facilitation, executive storytelling, and decision-framing skills, with the ability to clarify trade-offs, role boundaries, risks, and recommendations for diverse audiences.\n\nCOMPETENCY MATRIX:\nPortfolio Architecture\nDescription: Defines coherent target architecture, transition states, and roadmap direction for the assigned portfolio.\n\nProficiency Level: Advanced\n\nEvidence: Maintains a current roadmap with clear transition states and an adopted portfolio architecture direction.\n\nStrategic Influence\nDescription: Guides senior stakeholders through ambiguity, trade-offs, and decisions without relying on direct authority.\n\nProficiency Level: Advanced\n\nEvidence: Builds stakeholder alignment, supports timely decision-making, and provides clear recommendations.\n\nInvestment Alignment\nDescription: Connects architecture decisions to business value, affordability, risk, delivery readiness, and sequencing.\n\nProficiency Level: Working to Advanced\n\nEvidence: Provides decision-ready options, identifies dependencies, and establishes clear sequencing rationale.\n\nEnterprise Systems Thinking\nDescription: Assesses impacts across capabilities, platforms, data, integration, security, operations, customer outcomes, and regulatory context.\n\nProficiency Level: Advanced\n\nEvidence: Enables earlier visibility of risks and reduces architectural friction across the enterprise.\n\nArchitecture Tooling\nDescription: Uses enterprise architecture tools or repositories to maintain architecture knowledge, dependencies, standards, roadmaps, and decision traceability.\n\nProficiency Level: Working to Advanced\n\nEvidence: Maintains reliable repository content, develops reusable architecture views, and ensures architecture decisions are traceable.\n\nGovernance & Role Clarity\nDescription: Applies guardrails, clarifies accountabilities, and enables governance readiness without duplicating delivery work.\n\nProficiency Level: Working to Advanced\n\nEvidence: Supports clear ARB preparation and decision records while reducing role conflicts and duplication.\n\nExecutive Communication\nDescription: Translates complex architecture topics into concise messages for technical, business, Finance, EPMO, and executive audiences.\n\nProficiency Level: Working to Advanced\n\nEvidence: Develops clear roadmap narratives, effectively frames risks, and provides leadership-ready recommendations.\n\nBEHAVIORAL INDICATORS:\nStrategic Thinking\nAnticipates portfolio impacts, downstream dependencies, and long-term implications of architecture and investment decisions.\n\nBalances modernization, customer outcomes, business value, risk, compliance, affordability, and sustainability.\n\nLeadership\nProvides calm, credible leadership when priorities, dependencies, stakeholder expectations, or trade-offs are unclear.\n\nLeads through influence and clarity while enabling Solution Architects, product teams, and delivery teams to work within agreed guardrails.\n\nAnalytical Skills\nUses structured thinking to assess options, constraints, dependencies, risks, and transition paths.\n\nSimplifies complex architecture issues into practical recommendations for decision-making.\n\nCollaboration\nBuilds trust across business, technology, architecture, EPMO, Finance, product, and delivery stakeholders.\n\nResolves tension by focusing on enterprise outcomes, transparent trade-offs, and clear accountabilities.\n\nThis position will remain open until suitable candidates are selected.\nAlberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.\nWe offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab....","description_format":"text","description_chars":12149,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Insurance & Benefits"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T19:33:31Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-28T12:26:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T19:17:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":26519,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1049212},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1049212"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/bluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbluecross-portfolio-architect-information-technology"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2469460}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"bluecross.ca","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2469460},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}