Senior Solution Architect

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Durham (CA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage +

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement and career dev

Parental leave and surrogacy support

Job summary

Blue Cross NC is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to design technology solutions across complex initiatives. The role partners with business and tech teams to develop architectures, provide technical guidance, and ensure alignment with standards, security, and strategy.

The ideal candidate will lead architectural guidance across cloud, data, APIs, and integration domains, mentor engineers, and influence SDLC decisions within a Hybrid Flex environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree required where appropriate
• 5+ years of experience in related field; in lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience
• Ability to mentor engineers and provide SDLC guidance to stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop solution architectures, roadmaps, and designs that align with enterprise standards and objectives
• Serve as a senior architect for complex initiatives with stakeholders and delivery teams
• Design scalable data architectures supporting governance, analytics, and security
• Develop solutions across cloud platforms, data and analytics, integrations, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and app development
• Apply architecture standards, design patterns, governance, and security requirements
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept to modernize technology
• Identify risks and gaps while ensuring performance, reliability, and security
• Provide architecture guidance throughout the SDLC and mentor engineers

Skills

Architectural guidance

SDLC guidance

Mentor engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree

Experience in lieu of degree (7+ years)

Job description

Job Description

Blue Cross NC is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to design and guide technology solutions across complex business and technology initiatives. This role partners with business and technology teams to develop solution architectures, provide technical guidance, and ensure solutions align with business needs, architecture standards, security requirements, and technology strategy.

WhatYou’llDo

• Develop solution architectures, roadmaps, and technical designs that align with enterprise standards and business and technology objectives.

• Serve as a senior architect for complex initiatives, partnering with business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and delivery teams to provide architectural guidance.

• Design scalable data architectures that support data quality, governance, metadata management, analytics, compliance, and business requirements.

• Develop solutions across modern technology environments, including cloud platforms, data and analytics, integrations, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and application development.

• Apply and contribute to architectural standards, design patterns, governance processes, and security requirements to support scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and participate in proofs of concept to identify solutions that support business needs and technology modernization.

• Identify and address technical risks, architecture gaps, dependencies, and design considerations while ensuring performance, reliability, scalability, resiliency, and security.

• Provide architecture guidance throughout the SDLC, partnering with Agile delivery teams and mentoring engineers while effectively communicating architectural recommendations and trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree (where required)

• 5+ years of experience in related field.

• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.

Bonus Points

• Experience developing enterprise technology strategies and leading large-scale architecture initiatives.

• Deep expertise in two or more areas including Data & Analytics, Cloud, Software Development, Integration, Infrastructure, or Security Architecture.

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture, solution design, software development methodologies, and SDLC practices.

• Experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data platforms, analytics solutions, and data governance capabilities.

• Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, modern integration patterns, APIs, and platform engineering practices.

• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and delivering AI-enabled business solutions.

• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, leadership, mentoring, and change management capabilities.

WhatYou’llGet

• The opportunity to work at thecutting edgeof health care delivery with a teamthat’sdeeply invested in the community

• Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to dogreat work

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along withnumeroushealth and wellness programs

• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacyassistance

• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education

• 401k match including an annual company contribution

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Where You’ll Work

Our Hybrid Flex approach is built on presence with a purpose – giving you flexibility to work remotely with intentional in-person connection – that supports a workplace that’s flexible, connected, and future focused.

In a Hybrid-Flex role, you’ll work in the office at least two days a week for collaboration and connection. In a Remote Flex role, you’ll work virtually, with a few in-office visits each year for meaningful moments that matter.

Whether your role is Hybrid Flex or Remote Flex depends on the nature of the work and distance from our Durham headquarters. We welcome candidates from outside the local area and in any states listed on this job posting. Onsite expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs.Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs.

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.

$118,691.00 - $189,906.00