Enterprise Architect (Health Care)

Role Overview: We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Lead Enterprise Healthcare Architect to drive technology strategy and innovation. This pivotal role designs, develops, and optimizes enterprise architecture strategies, with a deep focus on industry-leading technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), API management, integration architecture, and security architecture. The successful candidate will translate strategic intent into actionable architectural roadmaps, proactively reduce technical debt, and champion application rationalization initiatives to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and resilient solutions. This individual will define and drive AI solution strategies and collaborate extensively with other architects to ensure cohesive designs that align with strategic objectives and enable seamless execution. This role requires extensive healthcare payer industry experience, a strong understanding of emerging technologies, and the ability to provide strategic consultation and mentorship. Provide strategic consultation to business stakeholders in defining and designing business processes, functions, and organizational structures. Research, identify, and internally champion enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value-case development, and business innovation portfolio planning. Specify and design large-scale and highly complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, and processes. Establish policies for the selection of architecture components and conduct impact analysis for major design options. Ensure system architectures balance functional requirements, service quality, security, operability, and systems-management requirements. Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to develop complex architectures and translate requirements into detailed solution designs for implementation. Provide expert guidance on system development and integration, including change requests, deviations from specifications, and adherence to relevant business and technology strategies, policies, standards, and practices. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, assuming accountability for work quality, solution appropriateness, and realization of measurable business benefits. Modify existing process-improvement approaches or develop new methods to achieve sustainable improvement. Lead AI solution strategy, API management, integration architecture, security architecture, application rationalization, and technical-debt reduction initiatives. Lead resolution of complex architecture and business challenges and serve as the technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives. Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and manage expectations across customers, partners, and management. Participate in customer walkthroughs, planning sessions, design and technical reviews, problem resolution, and decision-making activities. Maintain in-depth knowledge of designated technical domains and provide expert advice regarding their application. Provide architecture leadership, coaching, mentoring, and ad hoc training to architects, developers, management, and business users. Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a closely related field. Seven years of experience in an information technology discipline. Ability to translate strategic intent into actionable architecture roadmaps and implementation designs. Healthcare payer or health insurance industry business knowledge. Certifications relevant to Artificial Intelligence, API management, integration architecture, or security architecture. Technology certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cognos, Pega, or Enterprise Architect (SCEA). Project Management certification. The role must demonstrate the capabilities needed to support the assigned application and architecture portfolio. AI solution strategy and emerging technologies Application rationalization and technical-debt reduction Data warehousing and enterprise data platforms Project delivery using Waterfall and/or Agile methods Platforms, Data & Development Technologies Oracle; SQL; SAS; Java; JavaScript frameworks; J2EE; C++; Visual Basic; COBOL XML; Mobile application technologies