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Overview The Solution Architect will be responsible for providing technical solutions to a variety of business problems. The Solution Architect will be accountable for analyzing and designing solutions to meet business requirements and guiding the implementation team to successful solution implementation. The ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, including senior management, is essential.
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree required.
- Five (5) years of experience in systems support role with demonstrated results in analytics, configuring, coding, testing, problem solving and support, or demonstrated equivalent knowledge required.
- Experience with methodology-based development (SDLC). Waterfall and agile experience preferred.
- Ability to articulate designs to other technical staff through discussion, diagrams, and writing.
- Understanding of application design principles and application architecture.
- Ability to navigate and work on multiple development platforms such Unix and Windows.
- Experience with various development paradigms such as procedural languages, object-oriented languages, message-oriented-middleware, and ETL tools.
- Strong database design and SQL experience.
- Experience implementing 3rd party (vendor) systems and designing integration points to core administrative systems.
- Ability to work as part of a team or to be self-directed as required.
- Good organization skills: ability to manage small to medium-sized projects and lead teams of developers.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Experience with automated unit and/or functional testing methods preferred.
- Experience writing and facilitating Requests for Information/Proposals.
- Experience estimating projects for multiple IT functions.
- Knowledge of health care payer business is preferred.
- Proven examples of displaying the IH values: Passionate, Caring, Respectful, Trustworthy, Collaborative and Accountable.
- Applications:
Informatica
Kalido
Oracle
SQL Server
Java
MQ Series
IBM Websphere
IBM Message Broker
RxClaim
Initiate eMPI
Siebel (Oracle CRM)
DB2
Vignette
Essential Accountabilities - Provide day-to-day technical support to application developers and other IT resources to solve problems, provide guidance and direction.
- Provide technical direction by developing/recommending alternatives and creative solutions that are both effective and efficient in cost and process.
- Gain approval and organizational commitment for systems, infrastructure, and software plans from appropriate IT and business unit leaders.
- Make technology choices based on business requirements and information systems strategy, principles, and structure.
- Evaluate workload and capacity of systems and provide insight during estimating processes.
- Follow established quality standards, checkpoints, and communications processes to ensure project quality.
- Create reusability into systems for other IT resources to utilize in their development efforts.
- Develop written specifications and documentation according to the engineering lifecycle that aid in development, use, and support.
- Manage testing of all system functions.
- Provide day-to-day technical support to application developers and other IT resources to solve problems, provide guidance and direction.
Immigration or work visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position Hiring Compensation Range: $120,000 - $140,000 annually
Compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to skills, education, location and experience. In addition to base compensation, associates may be eligible for a scorecard incentive, full range of benefits and generous paid time off. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
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