Enterprise Architect, Principal

Enterprise Architect, Principal

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Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area's top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world's most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in - join us!

Your Role

The Enterprise Architecture team translates business strategic goals into future-state capability reference architectures and execution roadmaps. The Principal Enterprise Architect will report to the Director of Enterprise Architecture. In this role you will drive the creation and maintenance of enterprise data and analytics capabilities, data reference architectures, integrated data and analytics technology roadmaps that will guide our strategic investments and enterprise strategy.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Architect hybrid cloud native data platforms and analytical technologies including Snowflake/Azure data platforms, Data Warehouse design, BI reporting, Dashboard development and NoSQL storage
• Collaborate with other architects to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services
• Develop and maintain reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns, and usage guidelines
• Research, design, test, and evaluate new data platform technologies, and third party products. Work with technology teams to prototype and prove the viability of solutions
• Engage with customer's both business and technology stakeholders to create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise in their environment
• Manages the creation and maintenance of models that identify interdependencies between business units, roles, associated capabilities, and technologies
• Align with BSC operating model, strategy, and IT objectives in guiding IT transformations
• Ensure Data and Application Integration and Interoperability by addressing overall data processing needs
• Continuously evaluate platform simplification and multi-tenancy opportunities ensuring - minimal amount of overlap among information systems, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive set of applications that work well together, are easily integrated, and don't duplicate efforts

• Requires at least 10 years relevant business and IT experience
• Requires at least 3 years of experience in an architecture role
• Required interpersonal and technical leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and influence
• Required strong proficiency in Data, Integration and Technology Architecture. Desired multi-tenancy architecture and M&A expertise
• Required strong proficiency in data architecture. Desired data modelling, and SQL development expertise

• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short
• Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals