Senior Architect - Cloud

at Highmark Health in Boise, Idaho, United States

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

This role is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and optimizing complex cloud architecture strategies to align with business needs and capabilities. The Cloud Architect ensures comprehensive architectural solutions that address stakeholder concerns.

Key Responsibilities:

+ Lead and participate in Architecture Review Board processes, providing expert guidance on cloud-based solutions and services ( GCP , Azure, AWS ).

+ Provide strategic consultation to business partners, assisting in the design of business processes and organizational structures leveraging cloud solutions. Research and promote enabling technologies based on client requirements.

+ Design and specify complex cloud-based systems, solutions, networks, and infrastructure. Ensure optimal technology selection, resource utilization, and seamless integration.

+ Utilize modeling tools to develop complex architectures. Create detailed component requirements and specifications for implementation. Provide technical guidance on system development and integration.

+ Analyze the operational environment of cloud-based systems. Identify and implement improvement programs to enhance quality and business benefits.

+ Resolve complex architectural and business challenges, serving as a technical lead for critical cloud initiatives.

+ Communicate effectively across all organizational levels. Manage expectations of stakeholders, participate in walkthroughs, and contribute to problem resolution and decision-making.

+ Collaborate with various departments, interpreting complex requirements for colleagues.

+ Provide leadership and mentorship in cloud architecture to peers, developers, management, and business users through expertise, coaching, and training.

+ other duties as assigned or requested

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing more complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitate development of more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in more complex enterprise strategy development, including environmen