Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Anticipated End Date:

2025-04-28

Position Title:

Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Job Description:

Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote & office). The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint office locations.

National Government Services is a proud member of Elevance Health's family of brands. We administer government contracts for Medicare and partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to transform federal health programs. 

The Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect  creates architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design. 

How You Will Make An Impact: 

• Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment; drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation. 
• Identify new technologies with a focus on enhancing user experience, reducing technical debt, and maximizing return on investment.
• Initiate POC’s and help oversee the initial implementation of these platforms collaborating with leadership, technical staff, and vendors to create optimal patterns and processes.
• Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged; contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture. 
• Defines architecture standards and anticipate areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards. 
• Develop and maintain technical landscapes, application portfolios, concept of operations (ConOps), and organizational roadmaps.
• Incorporate into presentations & documents.
• Work with technical writers to craft related verbiage where needed.
• Directs the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture). 
• Works with business units to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures. 
• Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for business proposals and new strategic initiatives.
• Develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies.
• Serve as a liaison to IT staff, internal stakeholders, and external customers gathering/sharing research, presenting solutions, supporting audits. 
• Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years of experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. 
• This position is part of our NGS (National Government Services) division which, per CMS TDL 190275, requires foreign national applicants meet the residency requirement of living in the United States at least three of the past five years.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities & Experiences:

• Experience in summarizing and sharing technical vision: This includes strong verbal communication skills and creating aesthetically pleasing architectural diagrams.
• Deep knowledge and expertise in developing Enterprise solutions across a wide range of technical domains, including but not limited to cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, hybrid), modern development, data pipelines, networking, security pipelines, application/performance monitoring, robotic process automation integration, API management, human-centered design and emerging technologies (e.g., NLP, LLMs).
• Ability to efficiently support multiple projects simultaneously across the entire Enterprise with sensitive deadlines.
• Experience in the healthcare industry with knowledge of core administrative processing is strongly preferred.

For candidates working in person or remotely in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $138,160 to $226,080.

Locations: Walnut Creek, CA; Chicago, IL

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company.  The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws. 

* The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

If this job is assigned to any Government Business Division entity, the applicant and incumbent fall under a `sensitive position' work designation and may be subject to additional requirements beyond those associates outside Government Business Divisions.  Requirements include but are not limited to more stringent and frequent background checks and/or government clearances, segregation of duties principles, role specific training, monitoring of daily job functions, and sensitive data handling instructions.  Associates in these jobs must follow the specific policies, procedures, guidelines, etc. as stated by the Government Business Division in which they are employed.

Job Level:

Non-Management Exempt

Workshift:

1st Shift (United States of America)

Job Family:

IFT > IT Architecture

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process. Candidates must reside within 50 miles or 1-hour commute each way of a relevant Elevance Health location.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.