Principal IT Enterprise Technical Solutions Architect - Remote

What's My Impact?

The Principal IT Enterprise Technical Solutions Architect is responsible for driving company-wide technology architecture providing technical expertise to business areas and project teams with an emphasis on enterprise data and cloud technology solutions. Principal Architects work with stakeholders, including technical, functional, and business process subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of an organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets. The role of the Enterprise Architect is to take this knowledge and ensure that the organization's business and Information Technology (IT) systems are in alignment. The Enterprise Architect links the business mission, strategy, and processes of an organization to its IT strategy, and documents this using multiple architectural models or views that show how the current and future needs of an organization will be met in an efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.

What's My Key Responsibilities?• Enterprise Technology evangelist - builds critical mass of support for a given technology and establishes architecture and implementation as a standard for the enterprise. • Serves as technical solutions architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions. Lead efforts to implement technology vision and take it to production end state for the implementation. • Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares benchmarking reports and presentations. • Bring Speed to Market solutions and make GuideWell a true digital company with tangible efficiency on two principals' value today and growth tomorrow. • Execute Enterprise-wide IT Strategy definition and implementation based on leading-edge industry standards, best practices, ROI and comprehensive understanding of corporate mission and bridges the gap between business and IT. • Design and define a set of architecture artifacts to support the development of architectures in accordance with architecture policy and execute the implementation strategy. • Exhibit evaluating and promoting emerging technologies and solutions based on risks and benefits to enable Florida Blue in becoming best in class Health Solutions IT company • Coaches' others to promote knowledge-sharing and professional growth • Create standardized roadmaps • Identify technology redundancies • Ensure execution progress on strategic initiatives • Benchmark technology plans against peers'• Connect IT projects to business goals • Engage business partners in IT plans

What's Required?• 8+ years related work experience. Experience Details: Solutions Architect working on progressively complex IT projects spawning across domain • Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience • Ability and willingness to work with challenging clients and provide effective communication for successful architecture development• Spend a good deal of time teaching, explaining, and educating the other architects, IT leads across the organization• Possess high level oral and written communication, problem solving, and diplomatic skill sets• Extensive knowledge working in a prior healthcare insurance company with respect to preventive care, claims processing, member enrollment and provider network engagement• Execute enterprise-wide technology roadmaps on platforms like Hadoop, Polyglot Persistence, DevOps tools, PAAS and Search Engines • Good understanding of security standards and infrastructure standards guiding domains to adhere to enterprise security architecture • Ability to lead problem resolution during failures/outages of mission critical applications impacting business and customers • Strong architecture experience on security protocols - SAML, OATH2, JWT and Kerberos security • Possess strong knowledge of hardware platforms like Power8, X86 and SAN storages

What's Preferred?• Leading teams for the enterprise-wide rollout of modern UX technologies and building rich UI applications on mobile and desktop platforms • Leading teams for the enterprise-wide rollout of Microservices platform(s), Serverless computing and Microservices security • Ability to enhance team spirit; proficient in teamwork - coordination, collaboration, facilitation, and information sharing Experience building Internet of Things (IOT) solutions for massive datasets • Experience providing architecture leadership for one or more cloud-based data implementations on Azure and/or AWS.• 3+ years of experience on an Enterprise Architecture team• Preferred experience with Microsoft Azure data technologies

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.

Physical/Environmental Activities

Must be able to travel to multiple locations for work (i.e. travel to attend meetings, events, conferences). Occasionally

What We Offer:

As a Florida Blue employee, you will thrive in our Be Well, Work Well, GuideWell culture where being well as an individual, and working well as a team, are both important in serving our members and communities.

To support your wellbeing, comprehensive benefits are offered. As an employee, you will have access to:

Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance

Income protection benefits: life insurance, Short- and long-term disability programs

Leave programs to support personal circumstances

Retirement Savings Plan includes employer contribution and employer match

Paid time off, volunteer time off, and 11 holidays

Additional voluntary benefits available

A comprehensive wellness program

Employee benefits are designed to align with federal and state employment laws. Benefits may vary based on the state in which work is performed. Benefits for intern, part-time and seasonal employees may differ.

To support your financial wellbeing, we offer competitive pay as well as opportunities for incentive or commission compensation. We also conduct regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases.

Typical Annualized Hiring Range: $143,400 - $179,300

Annualized Salary Range: $143,400 - $233,100

Final pay will be determined with consideration of market competitiveness, internal equity, and the job-related knowledge, skills, training, and experience you bring.

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