Senior IS Architect

Position Purpose:

Provide technical expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall systems architecture. Ensure business requirements are enabled using approved architecture concepts. Provide consultative services to high-level clients for their set of applications. Provide oversight to project teams to ensure that technical risks and opportunities are considered and appropriately addressed in business initiatives and decisions. Work closely with senior application development staff to ensure products meet analysis, design, and development standards for the various operating environments. Work with Enterprise Architecture to set the architectural direction for the set of assigned applications. Ensures application owner and/or key design team members have the necessary understanding of the operating environments to ensure system integrity. Review systems for potential improvements and present recommendations to the Architecture group and IS Senior Management.

What You Will Do:

• In coordination with Enterprise Architecture, establish application architecture direction for change sheets and project efforts, Research and Development (R&D) efforts and RFS efforts based upon the approved architecture. Ensure business objectives are met using approved architecture principles. Review and design system software and hardware builds analyzing system options, risks, cost vs. benefit, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Provide architectural guidance on assigned efforts. Serve as a leader in the integration of solutions and construction of applications. Reviews and authorizes the integration of application solutions for complex projects within a business unit.
• Provide technical oversight on complex projects for a wide range of business initiatives. Ensure the final product is properly integrated into the technical architecture. Provide application architecture research for assigned R&D and assigned vendor alerts to include documenting the findings in whitepapers. Evaluate software packages and make recommendations to IT management. In coordination with Project Leads, provide input on all proposals that could potentially impact systems.
• Serve as a key decision maker and escalation point for approving architectural decisions within the scope of assigned applications. Serve as an expert resource to IT groups in planning the resource requirements for systems under development. Develop and document the framework for integration and implementation for changes to technical standards.
• Mentor others to ensure technical skills are in place to meet current and future technical leadership-related resource requirements. Facilitate the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that provide direction for the design of technology solutions, including architecting and implementing solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications across the enterprise.
• Build relationships with development teams in coordination with design personnel to ensure architecturally sound solutions. Conveys the impact of strategic technical decisions to application owners, key design team members, and project team members. Ensures they have a clear understanding of Corporate direction in relation to architecture and technology, and ensure integration of that direction as appropriate. Build and maintain relationships that can be leveraged to support the achievement of business and technical objectives.
• Build customer relationships to ensure solutions are leveraged to meet customer's business requirements. Review customer requests, security patches, and audit requirements for additions or changes to systems, and evaluate feasibility to determine if/how to handle the request while maintaining an adequate/appropriate overall systems infrastructure. Support RFP and marketing efforts by serving as a subject matter expert for the set of assigned applications. Answers RFI's and certify RFS estimates for assigned applications.

To Qualify For This Position, You Will Need:
Required Education:

• Bachelor's in a job related field
• Or an additional 4 years job related work experience
• Or an Associate's and an additional 2 years job related work experience

Required Work Experience:

• 9 years of IT experience.
• Possesses a track record of successfully managing joint IS/Business teams through strategic challenges in meeting business objectives.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent negotiation and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and release quality products on time. Demonstrated ability to build network and collaborative relationships throughout complex organizations.
• Understands and applies the attributes and processes of current application or system development methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical approaches to all levels of non-technical and technical staff, management, and end-users.
• Able to lead dynamic, energized, and highly creative multidisciplinary work teams in a matrix environment to respond to company business needs.
• Has thorough knowledge and understanding of the technologies, architecture, and practices and direction of the application areas.
• Able to acquire knowledge of the company's business practices and direction.

We Prefer That You Have:

• 10 years of architecture experience.
• Certified ServiceNow Technical Architect
• Certified Service ArchX (Architecture Excellence)
• Experience designing through the lens of I/S Architecture
• Experience leading solutions that have multiple system or operational area impacts.
• Cross ServiceNow Platform experience: ITSM, CMDB, ITOM, Source two Pay, ITAM, SPM, IRM, Integrations, etc...

What We Can Do for You:

We understand the value of a diverse and inclusive workplace and strive to be an employer where employees across all spectrums have access and opportunity to develop their skills, advance their careers and contribute their unique abilities to the growth of our company.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

* 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match

* Subsidized health plans and free vision coverage

* Life insurance

* Paid annual leave - the longer you work here, the more you earn

* Ten paid holidays

* On-site cafeterias and fitness centers in major locations

* Wellness programs and a healthy lifestyle premium discount

* Tuition assistance

* Service recognition

What to Expect Next:

After submitting your application, our recruiting team members will review your resume to ensure you meet the qualifications.This may include a brief telephone interview or email communication with our recruiter to verify resume specifics and salary requirements. Management will be conducting interviews.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and our subsidiary companies maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment to promote employment opportunities for persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, weight, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other legally protected status. Additionally, as a federal contractor, the company maintains affirmative action programs to promote employment opportunities for individuals with disabilitiesand protected veterans. It is our policy to provide equal opportunities in all phases of the employment process and to comply with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, pregnant individuals, individuals with pregnancy-related conditions, and individuals needing accommodations for sincerely held religious beliefs, provided that those accommodations do not impose an undue hardship on the Company.

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