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Description

QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

·         Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field is required. Four years of related experience can be used in lieu of the degree.

·         Master’s Degree is preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

·         Minimum of 7 – 10 years of relevant Information Technology experience. Must have demonstrated two years experience successfully leading and directing a group of professional IT staff. 3+ years previous Enterprise Architecture leadership experience is preferred. Experience can run concurrently.

·         Requires deep technical knowledge at a structural and strategic level across a broad range of IT disciplines including current applications development methodology/languages, project management and service capabilities with experience in some or all of the additional disciplines of database administration, networking, operational capabilities, server platforms, messaging, middleware, security and communications.

·         Extensive experience with complex, heterogeneous information systems in large organizations with significant reliability, performance and security requirements.

·         Strong negotiating and influencing skills.

Negotiation

* Promote & sell the enterprise-wide point of view.
* Negotiate a solution when several opposing viewpoints/alternatives exist.

Influence & Persuasion/ Relationship Management

* Ability to lead and influence senior professionals and quickly develop relationships with IT executives in the organization to build credibility with business leaders.
* Understand opposing perspectives and make decisions in the best interest of the enterprise.

Continuous Learning

* Continuous development in the technical and management arenas.

Listening

* Understand the individual goals of the specific business units, functional areas, application groups and other IT teams.
* Understand opposing perspectives and make decisions in the best interest of the enterprise.

Facilitation

* Ability to coordinate participation of technology leaders throughout the IT organization.
* Ability to conduct fact-finding or planning workshops that have a specific deliverable and timeframe.
* Ability to collaborate with application, infrastructure & database architects to create, maintain and evolve the enterprise architecture framework and methodology.

Verbal Communication

* Strong communication skills between business and technical teams.
* Ability to explain technical concepts in non-technical terms.

Innovation

* Identify gaps and opportunities and develop innovative solutions.

Visioning

* Define future technology state that supports our business plan.
* Lead the development of the strategic vision of applications and services within the organization.
* Demonstrate cross-functional leadership to provide vision and strategy, gain organizational commitment for all high-level architecture plans, and lead initiatives to adopt / implement these plans.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Manages IT staff, promotes career development opportunities, provides mentoring to the staff to encourage personal growth and advancement, and promotes delivery of high quality customer service and team productivity and actively pursues personal leadership & technical development to ensure growth and the ability to demonstrate a high level of quality and productivity.

Supports initiatives related to the IT strategic and complementary tactical plans in a responsive manner that conforms to the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives.

Develops, manages, and builds positive relationships/partnerships with clients, vendors, peers/other teams, and staff to ensure a high level of personal and team understanding of the client’s business operations, IT support needs, and IT service expectations.

Ensures quality and timeliness of business-oriented solutions aimed at providing positive effects on operational results while optimizing the overall impact on the organization’s performance.

Monitors and supports IT financial resources by approaching work with a focus on cost efficiencies that provide tangible cost savings and improved IT productivity through fundamentally sound implementation of systems solutions.

Understands IT Departmental Goals and Objectives and delivers work products to help contribute and ensure goals are established, met and/or exceeded.

·         Establish and maintain the Enterprise Architect Team:

*  Defines the scope, mission, goals and operating model of the Enterprise Architect group and obtains validation from sponsor and key stakeholders.
*  Manages staff level positions by administering all HR functions, including but not limited to, hiring, terminating, conducting performance reviews, managing work schedules, managing a budget, assigning and directing workload, training and developing staff, coaching, etc.
*  Establishes and continuously improves an Enterprise Architect metrics program including architecture and industry benchmarking.

·         Strategic Planning:

* Communicates frequently with development teams and the infrastructure support organization to create, maintain and evolve the enterprise architecture framework and methodology.
* Performs current state assessment and documents as-is business solutions/technical foundation.
* Maintains knowledge of BCBSLA’s business plan and departmental strategic, tactical and operational plans.
* Aligns Enterprise Architect with strategic roadmaps (business plans, departmental goals).
* Defines, documents and makes recommendations for target state architecture based on future business requirements.
* Develops roadmap and establishes migration plan.
* Develops integration/interface strategies to 3rd party products and/or BCBS business entities.

·         Operational:

* Participates, on request, with IT staff to guide operational improvements.
* Participates in the design and development of new technology and/or new systems for the organization.
* Facilitates a holistic approach to system/application design.
* Designs and maintains architecture artifacts.
* As a trusted advisor, provides technical leadership and consulting on information technology strategy, operational challenges and key projects.

·         Governance:

* Defines and documents architecture governance processes.
* Develops, documents, communicates, and enforces architecture standards and guidelines.
* Reviews current and proposed IT projects for compliance with IT standard architecture.
* Owns the enterprise topology.

·         Technology Research:

* Conducts research and makes recommendations on emerging technologies, toolsets, programming languages, applications, systems, etc. that consider among other factors cost savings, adoption, standardization/simplification, flexibility and reuse.

This position reports to Director, Information Technology, Administrative Systems and Enterprise Architecture.

This position is a grade level 19. The starting minimum salary is $7,368.59/mo.

Details:

Job Id: 18700235

Posted / Updated: 5/28/2010 3:53:30 AM

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