at Health Care Service Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Responsible for ensuring alignment of project specific designs with application architecture roadmap. Support project and/or product teams on functional and technical design activities. Define the interaction between application packages, databases, and middleware systems to optimize product functional coverage. Act as subject matter expert (SME) for products that require integration into the application. Ensure conceptual, logical, and physical application architecture for a specific product. Own and maintain the product / application suite roadmap. Work with Solution Architects and System Analysts, translate business requirements into an overall technical solution design that is robust, scalable and extensible. Work closely with development team to ensure design patterns and directions are successfully and consistently implemented. Work with portfolio delivery leads and business analysts to understand end user need and future business direction. Work with fellow architects, engineering, and technology leadership to establish blueprints, “product" roadmap, and technology strategy. Design and implement complex systems solutions across the application stack. Foster and encourage solution reuse within and across portfolios and product teams. Research and evaluate software technology, products, and solutions, and make recommendation on introduction, phase out, and retirement. Telecommuting: Hybrid, 2 days a week from home.
REQUIREMENTS:
This position requires a bachelor’s, degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science or Information Technology or a related field plus 5 years as an Information Technology Specialist or related occupation. Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with: (1) Application and/or product feature design; (2) Application configuration; (3) Cloud computing (SaaS / PaaS); (4) DevOps and/or continuous deployment and/or integration process and tools (Bamboo, jenkins, RallyDev, Jira); (5) Integration technologies (Tibco/Informatica/CAS); (6) Iterative and/or agile and/or scrum development; (7) Solution architecture; and (8) Application development platforms and/or languages (HTML/CSS/ Java/ASP.Net/PHCSC/Ruby/C#).
