Strategic Application Architect - Cloud & Integration

Health Care Service Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 93,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is seeking a software design specialist to ensure alignment of project designs with the application architecture roadmap and to support product teams on functional and technical design activities.

The role requires hands-on experience with application development platforms, cloud computing, and integration technologies, with strong problem-solving and teamwork skills for successful collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor Degree or higher and 4+ years IT experience, or equivalent certifications.
• Experience in application design and architecture.
• Experience in cloud computing (SaaS/PaaS) and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with integration technologies and middleware.
• Experience with iterative, agile, and Scrum development.
• Ability to prototype and solve problems in a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure alignment of project designs with the application architecture roadmap.
• Support project/product teams on functional and technical design activities.
• Define interaction between application packages, databases, and middleware.
• Act as SME for products requiring integration.

Skills

Application design

Cloud computing

DevOps & CI/CD

Integration technologies

Agile development

Solution architecture

Prototyping

Problem solving

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Technical Certification / college courses in IT

Tools

Bamboo

Jenkins

RallyDev

Jira

MQ / MuleSoft ESB

Tibco / Informatica / CAS

Job description

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is seeking a software design specialist to ensure alignment of project designs with the application architecture roadmap and to support product teams on functional and technical design activities.

The role requires hands-on experience with application development platforms, cloud computing, and integration technologies, with strong problem-solving and teamwork skills for successful collaboration across teams.