Lead Technical Software Architect

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; United States; Remote; USD 116,900 - 187,100; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is looking for a Technical Software Architect to provide leadership and architectural direction. You will shape strategy, align product roadmaps, and ensure architectural integrity across multiple domains.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering and cloud platforms, with strong diagramming skills. This role supports remote and hybrid work options within various states.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of software engineering experience required.
• Proven record in leading large-scale digital transformations.

Responsibilities

• Own solution designs and lead junior Technical Software Architects.
• Govern design reviews and establish enterprise standards.
• Develop architect community and drive technology innovation.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

API management and microservices

Strong diagramming skills

Agile and waterfall methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Salesforce

FACETS

ServiceNow

Snowflake

Job description

Pay Range

Pay Range: $116,900.00 - $187,100.00

Contact

Please email [e-mail] if you are a candidate seeking a reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process.

Why this job matters

Provides technical leadership and architectural direction across multiple domains. Shapes strategy, aligns product roadmaps, and ensures architectural integrity across portfolios/domains.

Responsibilities

• Own solution designs for high complexity domains and mentor junior Technical Software Architects.
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts such as HLDs, current and target state diagrams, context diagrams, sequence diagrams.
• Evaluate design trade‑offs (latency vs throughput, synchronous vs asynchronous calls).
• Govern critical cross‑cutting concerns: identity, data platform, API platform, observability, and security.
• Make high‑stakes decisions on build/buy via product evaluations, contributing to reference implementations and proofs of concept.
• Govern design reviews, capture and track technical risks, assumptions, and decisions.
• Identify and validate non‑functional requirements (NFR).
• Establish and enforce enterprise standards (identity, logging, API standards, cloud patterns).
• Drive projects with evolving technical artifacts to continuously maintain the current‑state ecosystem with enterprise architecture oversight.
• Curate and share internal knowledge base via the EA tool.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Develop architect community of practice, mentor, and succession‑plan for the function.
• Establish and evolve architecture principles, standards, best practices, and enforce through the Architecture Review Board and projects.
• Ensure alignment between enterprise, solution, and technical architecture layers.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and resilience of critical systems.
• Drive technology innovation and adoption and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including at least five years of guiding large‑scale, multi‑year transformations through architecture design and support.
• Broad experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and AI/ML enablement.
• Expertise in API management, microservices, and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with Salesforce, FACETS, ServiceNow, Matillion, Apigee, Snowflake, and data warehousing tools/practices.
• Experience with data architecture, analytics platforms, and data governance.
• Strong diagramming skills to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering teams.
• Receptive to alternative design approaches while maintaining accountability for final design.
• Experience with best practice software development, integration, and configuration management methodologies.
• Project management office reporting experience.
• Coachable, adaptable, and willing to learn and teach modern technologies/processes.
• Proven track record of leading large‑scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong business acumen and ability to align technology strategy to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for inter‑level audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive consensus.
• Expertise in agile or waterfall methodologies.

Extras

• Master's degree in a technical discipline such as Information Systems Management, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Multiple platform, operating system, RDBMS, and IDE experience.
• Four or more years of experience in healthcare/insurance industry.

Location

BCBSRI headquarters in downtown Providence. Supported remote or hybrid work:

• In‑office: onsite 5 days per week.
• Hybrid: onsite 2-4 days per week.
• Remote: onsite 0-1 days per week.

Permitted to reside in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia (pending HR approval).

EEO Statement

BCBSRI is an equal opportunity employer. The law requires an employer to post notices describing the Federal laws. Please visit www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal to view the "Know Your Rights" poster.