IT Application Architect (ITS BlueCard) - Remote

Unlock your potential at Florida Blue, a company who champions career growth and is driven by its mission of helping people and communities achieve better health. We are looking for IT Application Architects who will bring our mission to life and succeed by putting the member first through our values of respect, integrity, inclusion, imagination, courage and excellence.

In addition to career growth opportunities within our 2500+ employee IT organization, you will enjoy competitive salariesandbenefits, work-life balance,flexible work arrangements, opportunities for growth and development, and a great place to workacross our family of companies!

IT Application Architects provide architectural oversight for design and development of applications. Responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of the applications architecture across the system and providing technical guidance to the development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring integration technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to architecture strategy-setting.
• Define project-level application architectures in line with business area guidelines and strategies.
• Define detailed technical designs usable by project team programmers. Review code developed by Developers to ensure code is consistent with architecture design. Troubleshoots, recommends, and executes action plans for issue resolution.
• Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction to project team while also prioritizing and resolving technical issues affecting and deliverables, escalating technical issues when required. Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.

Required Experience

• 4+ years' experience in IT development/programming/coding professional work experience, proficient in multiple programming languages
• Proficiency using versioning and debugging tools.
• Lifelong learner and practitioner of new technologies in alignment with IT strategies
• Experience and understanding with unit testing, release procedures, coding, design and documentation protocol as well as change management procedures.
• Practitioner of Project Management Methodologies (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile discipline)
• Knowledge in Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) software engineering practices
• Knowledge in defining extensible architectures that can be built by project team incrementally
• Proficiency in creating architecture, green-field and redesign, and communicate the same to project team
• Leadership and critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for wide variety of audiences
• Demonstrated ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives.
• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Blue Card processing experience (Gateway, Mainframe, and/or Diamond claims processing, etc.)
• JAVA developer experience

General Physical Demands

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for our employees and communities.