Principal Architect
Highmark Health4 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$142k - $236k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and articulation of complex architecture vision and strategy across the Front Office application ecosystem.
- Align architectural solutions with business capabilities, strategic initiatives, and organizational needs.
- Champion best practices, emerging technologies, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to influence decisions and align on complex architectural solutions.
- Evaluate and select technologies and solutions for evolving organizational requirements.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation.
- Identify and mitigate architectural risks and challenges during implementation and operations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for architectural standards, policies, and best practices.
- Provide expert guidance and mentorship to a team of architects and foster knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems and solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related discipline.
- Knowledge of architecture frameworks and methodologies, software development, emerging technologies, strategic thinking, influencing, critical thinking, and decision-making.
- Proficiency in technologies and application areas relevant to supported systems, potentially including IMS, DB2, Oracle, Teradata, data warehousing, COBOL, Visual Basic, C, C++, SAS, Java, JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, PEGA, CSS3, mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5, and XML.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related discipline is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $142,000 to $236,000 per year.
- The position is office- or remote-based.
- Travel requirement is 0%–25%.
- The role occasionally teaches or trains others and rarely travels between work sites.
- The position does not require a physical work site.
Tech Stack
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About Highmark Health
Highmark Health is a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit parent company that combines health insurance and care delivery. It operates Highmark’s Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and owns Allegheny Health Network, a regional hospital and physician system in Western Pennsylvania, plus the technology subsidiary enGen. The organization’s revenue comes from insurance premiums and healthcare services, serving commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid members across its licensed markets.