Senior IT Architect: Cloud, IAM & Security

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; United States; On-site; USD 83,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan seeks an Architect II to lead enterprise architecture initiatives, designing scalable solutions and providing technical guidance to product managers, project managers and engineers.

The role emphasizes aligning IT strategy with business needs, implementing ForgeRock IAM and CyberArk, leveraging cloud-native patterns, and promoting secure, reusable design components to deliver measurable value to customers.

Qualifications

• Strong communication, written and verbal, with ability to publish scalable system designs.
• Extensive experience with OOAD and multi‑tier architectures and patterns such as MVC/MVP/MVVM.
• Proven ability to govern cloud standards and strategy and to mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead architectural strategy and standards across projects.
• Evaluate build vs buy and select technology solutions with cost considerations.
• Develop and maintain architectural documentation and blueprints.
• Provide technical leadership to product, project and engineering teams.
• Ensure secure coding practices and regulatory alignment across initiatives.
• Guide IAM strategy and implement ForgeRock/CyberArk solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align projects with IT strategy.

Skills

Communication

OOAD

Multi‑tier arch

SOA/EDA

Security

Vendor mgmt

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Master’s preferred

Azure/AWS cert preferred

Experience with RDBMS/NoSQL

Tools

ForgeRock IAM

CyberArk

MongoDB/Azure CosmosDB/DynamoDB

Job description

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan seeks an Architect II to lead enterprise architecture initiatives, designing scalable solutions and providing technical guidance to product managers, project managers and engineers.

The role emphasizes aligning IT strategy with business needs, implementing ForgeRock IAM and CyberArk, leveraging cloud-native patterns, and promoting secure, reusable design components to deliver measurable value to customers.