Senior Enterprise Solution Architect

enGen; United States; On-site; USD 103,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen is seeking a Senior Enterprise Solution Architect to lead design and implementation of scalable solutions addressing complex business needs. You will translate requirements into architectural views using ArchiMate, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and reference architectures.

You will provide strategic technical leadership, guide projects through full solution lifecycles, and collaborate with Enterprise Architects and engineering teams to deliver architecture that supports

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline
• Master’s Degree preferred
• Extensive architecture experience in healthcare payer or equivalent domain

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic consultation to business customers to define complex enterprise solutions and processes
• Specify and design large or complex systems, selecting appropriate design standards and tools
• Produce detailed architecture artifacts (models, diagrams) and translate requirements into designs
• Lead architecture initiatives across multiple domains ensuring alignment with reference architectures
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels and mentor peers
• Drive solution lifecycle activities from concept through delivery and optimization

Skills

C

C++

SQL

J2EE

HTML5/XML

Data Warehousing

ArchiMate

TOGAF

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related

Master's Degree

Tools

ArchiMate

TOGAF

Job description

JOB SUMMARYWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced

Company

enGen

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Enterprise Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of innovative, robust, and scalable solutions that address complex business capabilities and needs. This pivotal role requires a strong focus on conceptualizing future-state solutions by effectively translating complex business requirements, collaborating closely with business architects and product Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and critically defining and ensuring the implementation of essential non‑functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, scalability, reliability).

As a Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, you will be responsible for developing detailed architectural diagrams, modeling, and representing diverse architectural views (e.g., deployment, data, application, security) using industry‑standard modeling techniques such as ArchiMate. You will ensure that all proposed solutions meticulously adhere to existing enterprise reference architecture standards and strategic architectural guidelines, playing a crucial role in operationalizing strategy and ensuring successful solution delivery.

A key aspect of this role involves providing strategic consultation and technical leadership, guiding projects through the full solution lifecycle, and driving alignment across various technical domains. You will effectively collaborate with Enterprise Architects and engineering teams to ensure solution designs contribute to the overarching enterprise architectural vision and strategic initiatives. This position demands proven experience within the healthcare payer industry, a deep understanding of emerging technologies, and the ability to articulate architectural concepts and trade‑offs clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing more complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitate development of more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in more complex enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively. Review others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establish policy for selection of more complex architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more complex major design options. Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
• Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of more complex architectures. Take a lead role to produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
• Select and use more complex tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non‑functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Take a lead role to identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which more complex products or systems will operate. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieve improvement.
• Take a lead role to ensure the resolution of a variety of more complex architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
• Communicate effectively will all levels of organization.
• Manage expectations of customers, partners and management.
• Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
• Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area of a more complex nature.
• Take a lead role in providing leadership and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad‑hoc training by preparing presentations on more complex issues on the area of expertise and presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to the Organization's strategic direction.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's Degree

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 5 years in an IT discipline
• 5 years in a Business discipline

Preferred

• Health Insurance Industry business knowledge
• Extensive experience with solution design and architecture across complex enterprise systems.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• None

Preferred

• Industry certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate
• Certifications relevant to Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Security Architecture

SKILLS

• IMS
• DB2
• Oracle and Teradata Databases
• Data Warehousing
• COBAL
• Visual Basic
• C
• C++
• SAS
• Java/JavaScript Framework
• PEGA
• CSS3
• Mobile
• JSON
• Cognos
• Hadoop
• SQL
• J2EE
• HTML5/XML
• Waterfall
• Agile

Language (other Than English)

None

Travel Requirement

0% -25%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type

• Office-Based
• Teaches / trains others regularly
• Frequently
• Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site
• Does Not Apply
• Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)
• Never
• Physical work site required
• Yes
• Lifting up to 10 pounds
• Constantly
• Lifting 10 to 25 pounds
• Rarely
• Lifting 25 to 50 pounds
• Rarely

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Compliance Requirement This position adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies. As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures and as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy. Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.

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$164,600.00

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