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Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area's top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world's most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in - join us!Your RoleThe Enterprise Architecture team translates business strategic goals into future-state capability reference architectures and execution roadmaps . The Principal Enterprise Architect will report to the Director of Enterprise Architecture . In this role you will drive the creation efficient ways for BSC to stay competitive and grow. Ability to complete an impact analysis with growth strategy across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, technology services, security and change management .Your WorkIn this role, you will:- Be responsible for the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture blueprints that articulate our business strategy, future state business and technology architecture, and multiyear execution roadmap
- Collaborate with other architects to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services
- Develop and maintain reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns and usage guidelines
- Create contextual and conceptual models that help document and simplify potentially complex topics
- Manages the creation and maintenance of models that identify interdependencies between business units, roles, associated capabilities, and technologies
- Align with BSC operating model, strategy, and IT objectives in guiding IT transformations
- Provide a business-centric view of the enterprise from a functional perspective
- Ensure Data and Application Integration and Interoperability by addressing overall data processing needs
- Continuously evaluate platform simplification and multi-tenancy opportunities ensuring - minimal amount of overlap among information systems, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive set of applications that work well together, are easily integrated, and don't duplicate efforts
- Driven by core guiding principles, establish flexibility and consistency to synthesize information systems in an efficient and economical way
- Requires at least 10 years relevant business and IT experience
- Requires at least 3 years of experience in an architecture role
- Requires both industry expertise and influence to articulate the technical requirements, negotiate roadmap priorities and align with business opportunities
- Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies
- Required interpersonal and technical leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and influence
- Required strong proficiency in Data, Integration and Technology Architecture. Desired multi-tenancy architecture and M&A expertise
- Examining key value streams delivering crucial business capabilities that are missing, low performing, and of critical, a very high, or high priority
- Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short
- Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes
- Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals
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