at WPS Health Solutions in Marion, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Who We Are
WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal government contractor headquartered in Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group health plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. WPS Health Solutions has been making health care easier for the people we serve for more than 75 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.
Culture Drives Our Success
WPS' Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an inclusive and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as an investment in our workforce-both current and future-to effectively seek, leverage, and include diverse perspectives that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities.
We are proud of the recognition we have received from local and national organization regarding our culture and workplace: WPS Newsroom - Awards and Recognition
Role Snapshot
Our Solutions Architect will help define and coordinate architecture decisions and direction of legacy and modernization efforts at WPS within our Government Health Administration (GHA) line of business focused on the Medicare Program. Will be accountable for driving, producing, and reviewing architecture artifacts that include current/future state business and technology multi layered software architectures. This Solutions Architect will also create and maintain reference architecture and patterns that will be used to guide projects. We are also looking for this role to help drive new and future innovations within a complex environment, where some tools and process reside on premises at WPS while others must integrate within US Government owned platforms and AWS instances. To be successful, this Architect will be a thought leader and influencer, excited to provide the needed technology vision to enable business strategy success.
Understand business application portfolios, processes, and priorities, and use this information to design complex enterprise systems architectures and solutions.
Apply technical knowledge and business insights to create and maintain architecture roadmaps and assist in breaking down items for tactical execution.
Maintain technical trends, skills, and knowledge of technology capabilities; share these with the internal technical community.
Create and maintain architectural information that are used to accomplish a business-aligned IT strategy.
Coordinate Proof-of-Concept implementations to infuse key new technologies as appropriate.
Develop and maintain various system of records in use within the Medicare team along with key functions served to business through these systems.
In partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, (CMS), lead the WPS Medicare participation within the CMS modernization work effort.
Collaborate with Medicare business teams to learn how the business uses technology to perform functions and bring that knowledge to CMS modernization streams.
Help WPS and CMS prioritize integrations and projects that ultimately reduce reliance on CMS shared systems screen scrapping, maintenance for these integrations and allow scalability to leverage APIs throughout WPS functions.
Participate in CMS cloud sessions, provide WPS recommendations on how to approach cloud strategy that leads to WPS Medicare business growth keeping CMS roadmap in mind.
Collaborate with Medicare security lead in future solutions architecting and roadmap for WPS GHA
Develop technical strategy documentation to support exciting impactful initiatives with coordination of IT, Business, and Architecture teams.
Laison with Shared Services counterparts to ensure a common understanding of organizational frameworks.
How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:
Are an individual who has an entrepreneurial spirit and is not afraid of trying new things.
Have a passion for information management practices, system development life cycle management, infrastructure and operations, digital transformation, and architecture frameworks.
Are interested in working with both on-prem and cloud-based solutions.
Collaborate well with Data, Solutions, Technology, Cloud, and Applications Architects and App Dev teams.
Enjoy the responsibility of influencing IT and business decision makers.
Are adaptable and have a... For full info follow application link.
Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities employer.
