CareFirst, Inc., and its affiliated companies, generally referred to as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), is the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest private sector health insurer, serving the healthcare needs of 3.5 million members in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and portions of northern Virginia. The Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to individuals and groups, as well as state and federal government sponsored plans. With a market share almost three times that of the closest competitor, the company commands 45 percent penetration across the region.
In July 2018, Brian D. Pieninck assumed the role of President and CEO after serving as the company’s COO of Strategic Business Units and IT Division. Under his leadership, the organization completed an extensive review of its operations and clinical programs, resulting in an expansive 3-year strategy to grow and diversify the company’s core business. Along with a 5-year vision to drive the transformation of the healthcare experience across the continuum of its members, partners, and communities, the company has placed a renewed and intentional focus on fostering a mission-based culture, which drives every decision the company makes. The organization employs over 5,600 full-time employees in Maryland, Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, and West Virginia. CareFirst has earned multiple workplace awards recognizing its leadership in diversity and inclusion, wellness engagement, and creation of a supportive and equitable work environment for all employees.
At CareFirst, you are part of an inspired, collaborative team that is building the healthcare experience we want for our families and our future. Every day, we make a meaningful difference in the communities where we live and work.
We practice empathy, seek to understand, invest in inclusion, demand equity and nurture belonging every day for our employees and the communities we serve. We rely on the rich diversity of our employees’ experiences and backgrounds to achieve our mission. Every year we host a Week of Equity and Action where we deepen our investment and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. During this week thousands of employees engage in workshops and volunteerism with the goal of bettering themselves and our community.
Women make up around 70% of CareFirst’s employee population, and over 50% identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color).
We have 9 resource groups that connect employees over shared identities (LGBTQ, veteran status, race, etc.) and passions (climate change, healthy living, leadership development).
Employees are encouraged to give back and volunteer in their communities with their civic engagement hours.
As a not-for-profit, CareFirst regularly ranks among the most philanthropic organizations with $65 million invested in the community in 2020 to improve overall health, and increase the accessibility, affordability, safety, and quality of healthcare throughout its market area. The company’s employees consistently add to this impact by devoting thousands of volunteer hours to numerous community organizations and social causes. The company’s continued efforts to reinvest in community health care programs has repeatedly earned CareFirst regional accolades as a leading corporate philanthropist, including the No. 2 and No. 7 spots on the Baltimore Business Journal and Washington Business Journal’s 2019 list of top corporate givers, respectively.
PURPOSE: Manages the planning, development, modification and application of domain strategies, standards and practices to align, optimize and enable the enterprise to achieve business objectives. Commissions the development of new standards and practices as needed. Manages budgets, team assignments, work load, and performance. Assess the compatibility of work products to domain best practices, mentor team competency development, and guide teams through the project life cycle.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Manage and oversee the adoption, maintenance, and implementation of domain standards, patterns, and practices to drive repeatable, predictible, and more efficient delivery.
Understand and support the development of business strategies and enterprise architecture, lead the development of domain strategies, collaborate across teams to ensure the domain is effectively represented in solutions; understand and apply industry domain trends.
Understand the domain architecture and how projects impact the current-state and contribute to the future-state to facilitate the optimization of solutions and overall impact. Manage the identification, assessment and remediation plans for technical debt.
Manage the domain team, their assignments, their deliverables and work products, their performance, their competency development, team budget and finances, including estimating and forecasts.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: This position manages people.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree inComputer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR inlieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
Licenses/Certifications Upon Hire Preferred: Certified System Architect.
Experience:
5 years Related professional IT experience in the specific architecture domain.
1 year Supervisory experience or demonstrated progressive leadership experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of flexibility.
Ability to translate complex business processes into easy to understand language.
Ability to lead inter-departmental teams and collaborate with stakeholders.
Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration.
Expertise with establishing domain related architecture frameworks, methods and tools.
Ability to plan and align across architecture domains.
Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Department
Department:InfoSec Security Operations
Equal Employment Opportunity
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of theCompany to provide equal employment opportunities to allqualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Hire Range Disclaimer
Actual salary will be based on relevant job experience and work history.
Where To Apply
PeopleSoft/Self Service/Recruiting
Closing Date
Please apply before: 05.23.2022
Federal Disc/Physical Demand
Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.
Sponsorship in US
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
