Sr Architect - IT Infrastructure Cloud Compute & Container Technologies
Company: Highmark Health
Location: Little Rock
Posted on: April 23, 2024
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Job Description:
Company :
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Job Description :
JOB SUMMARY
This position is for an IT Infrastructure architect to drive our
strategy, architectural designs, and implementations related to
(1.) our public cloud compute and storage ecosystems and (2.) our
on-premises and public cloud container technologies.
This job takes a lead role, within area of responsibility, and
(application, solution, information, technology, business) designs,
develops, implements, supports, and optimizes more complex
architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs.
Takes a lead role to ensure completeness of more complex
architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of
its stakeholders. Ensures integrity of more complex architecture by
connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting
concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing. Considers
practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to
develop. Leverages business and technology knowledge to enable
and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations and
systems. Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in
class industry business trends and practices. May take on role of
Project Lead for special assignments. May mentor less experienced
team members.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business
customers in defining or designing more complex business processes,
functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching,
identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on
customer capability requirements. Facilitate development of more
complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of
particular business processes and issues, general technological
options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in more
complex enterprise strategy development, including environmental
analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business
innovation portfolio development.
Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex
systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or
processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools
and ensure that they are applied effectively. Review others' system
design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use
of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
Establish policy for selection of more complex architecture
components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more complex
major design options. Ensure that the system architecture balances
functional, service quality and systems management
requirements.
Use appropriate tools, including models of components and
interfaces, to contribute to the development of more complex
architectures. Take a lead role to produce detailed component
requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed
solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.
Provide advice on technical aspects of system development,
integration (including requests for changes, deviations from
specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensure that relevant technical
and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are
applied correctly.
Select and use more complex tools and methods to establish,
clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional
requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
Take a lead role to identify the technical, organizational, and
physical environment in which more complex products or systems will
operate. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant
improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and
appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of
measurable business benefits. Modify existing process improvement
approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieve
improvement.
Take a lead role to ensure the resolution of a variety of more
complex architecture and business problems and serve as a technical
or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
Communicate effectively will all levels of organization.
Manage expectations of customers, partners and management.
Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and
technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision
making.
Interact with departments across the organization as necessary,
including the development and interpretation of highly complex
requirements for peers and other staff.
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in
area of expertise and provides expert advice regarding their
application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of
information or communication technology, technique, method,
process, product, or application area of a more complex nature.
Take a lead role in providing leadership and mentoring in the areas
of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers,
management and business users including technical expertise,
coaching, and ad-hoc training by: preparing presentations on more
complex issues on the area of expertise and presenting to their
peers to ensure consistency to the Organization's strategic
direction.
Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
Required
Substitutions
Preferred
EXPERIENCE
Required
5 years in an IT discipline
5 years in a Business discipline
Preferred
GCP, Azure & AWS public clouds
Google Cloud Compute
Kubernetes
Docker
Podman
Google GKE
RedHat OpenShift
RedHat Ceph
S3 Object Storage
Container Storage Interface (CSI)
Portworx, Astra Trident, or similar technologies
Terraform, Ansible, GitLab
Agile Scrum & Kanban methodologies
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
Preferred
Cloud Engineer or Cloud Architect certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Redhat Certified OpenShift Administrator
SKILLS (An Architect is not required to have experience in all of
these, but is required to have those needed to support applications
they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed
every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing
business needs.)
IMS
DB2
Oracle and Teradata Databases
Data Warehousing
COBAL
Visual Basic
C
C++ SAS
Java/JavaScript Framework
PEGA
CSS3
Mobile
JSON
Cognos
Hadoop
SQL
J2EE
HTML5/XML
Waterfall
Agile
Language (other than English)
None
Travel Requirement
0% -25%
PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS
Position Type
Office-Based
Teaches / trains others regularly
Frequently
Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from
site-to-site
Does Not Apply
Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales
employees)
Never
Physical work site required
Yes
Lifting: up to 10 pounds
Constantly
Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds
Rarely
Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds
Rarely
Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the
general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work
performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a
comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and
qualifications required of employees to do this job.
Compliance Requirement: This position adheres to the ethical and
legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the
code of business conduct and company policies.
As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access
to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential
customer information that must be protected at all times. In
connection with this, all employees must comply with both the
Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as
described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies
and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established
within the Company's Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and
Information Security Policy.
Furthermore, it is every employee's responsibility to comply with
the company's Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not
limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules,
and regulations as well as company policies and training
requirements.
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