Principal Data & Cloud Solutions Architect

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave and surrogacy support

Tuition reimbursement

PTO and wellness programs

Job summary

Blue Cross NC seeks a Principal Solution Architect (Data Focus) to provide enterprise-level architecture leadership across complex initiatives. The role drives data architectures, cloud and API strategies, and SDLC guidance while mentoring teams in a hybrid-flex environment with a Durham headquarters.

The ideal candidate has deep enterprise data architecture expertise, cloud-native capabilities, and strong leadership skills to align solutions with business outcomes and security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required).
• 8+ years of experience in related field.
• In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture efforts by defining solution strategies, architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference models that support business and technology objectives.
• Serve as the lead architect for complex initiatives, providing architectural direction across business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and delivery organizations.
• Design and govern scalable enterprise data architectures, ensuring alignment with data quality, governance, metadata management, analytics, compliance, and business requirements.
• Drive architecture decisions across modern technology ecosystems, including cloud platforms, data and analytics solutions, system integrations, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and application development.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, governance processes, and security requirements to ensure consistent, scalable, and resilient solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, conduct proofs of concept, and recommend innovative solutions that improve business outcomes and accelerate technology modernization.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, architecture gaps, and solution dependencies while ensuring solutions meet performance, reliability, scalability, resiliency, and security requirements.
• Guide architecture activities throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), partnering with Agile delivery teams to ensure successful solution implementation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to architects, engineers, and technology teams while promoting architecture best practices and continuous improvement.
• Influence strategic technology decisions and effectively communicate architectural vision, recommendations, and trade-offs to executive and technical audiences

Skills

enterprise data architecture

cloud platforms

integration technologies

AI-enabled solutions

mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree

Tools

Cloud platforms

APIs

ETL tooling

Job description

Blue Cross NC seeks a Principal Solution Architect (Data Focus) to provide enterprise-level architecture leadership across complex initiatives. The role drives data architectures, cloud and API strategies, and SDLC guidance while mentoring teams in a hybrid-flex environment with a Durham headquarters.

The ideal candidate has deep enterprise data architecture expertise, cloud-native capabilities, and strong leadership skills to align solutions with business outcomes and security standards.