IT Application Architect (Remote)

**We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work remotely in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor VISAs.

Are you an IT Application Architect with experience in Bigdata and Spark related Technologies? Are you looking for your next opportunity? If so, consider joining us on our mission of helping our communities achieve better health!

What Will be Your Purpose?

This position is required to manage technical design and implementation efforts for Commercial Rewards programs, and support the Rewards Issue Management Team. They will work with Enterprise Architecture and technical teams in impacted domains on end to end design, coordination and execution of specific technical components as required.

What You'll be Doing?

• 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.
• Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.
• 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.
• Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects.
• 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.

What You Must Have?

• Required Work Experience: 4+ years related work experience in IT development/programming/coding professional work experience.
• Required Education: Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field.
• Display technical leadership.
• Proficient in multiple programming languages.
• Proficiency using versioning tools.
• Proficiency using debugging tools.
• Proficiency using standard desktop applications such as MS Suite and flowcharting tools such as Visio.
• 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
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Proficiency in creating architecture, green-field, and redesign, and communicate the same to project team
• Critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance.
• Advanced knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends.
• 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.

What is Preferred?

• Experience with Bigdata storage engines: S3, Hbase, Casandra, Hive, or Parquet.
• Experience with Spark related ETL, ELT technologies: PySpark, Scala, Python, Jupyter notebooks, or Tableau.
• Experience with Bigdata querying engines: Hive, Presto, Athena, or Apache Drill.
• Experience with Bigdata platforms: Databricks, Cloudera, Horton works, or HD Insight.
• Experience with Low code ETL platforms: Gathr, Azure Data factory, or Talend.
  Experience with Ditital transformations: Web and Mobile development with an emphasis on identity management and Single sign on solutions.
• Experience with data manipulation with Python Matplotlib, Numpy, Sci-kit learn, Tensorflow, or Pandas.

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.

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