Sr. Principal Enterprise Information Architect - Client and Member - Remote

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Job Description

The Sr. Principal Enterprise Information Architect is responsible for initiating and leading strategic information and data solutions that fulfill specific business and technology outcomes. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. The Enterprise Information Architect leads the analysis and design tasks to support the development of enterprise solutions that cross multiple domains to ensure that the resulting architecture meets the business needs and align with architecture governance and standards. This position also leads the creation of deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms, and configurations) for evolving the architecture across the enterprise. The Enterprise Information Architect will focus on our Client and Member information domain.

The Sr. Principal Enterprise Information Architect will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of standard elements required to implement and sustain an overall information and data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) discipline at Prime Therapeutics. This individual focus is primary on enterprise information requirements: design, access, usage, privacy, and stewardship. The position also requires an understanding of industry standards and emerging regulatory issues surrounding information assets (such as consumer privacy laws, data retention policies, outsourced data, and specific industry guidelines – especially in healthcare, insurance, and banking). The Enterprise Information Architect will provide architectural oversight and governance to products and projects in the information and data domain as well as other solutions that emphasis data management, integration, and movement. This includes defining an enterprise information vision, strategy, architectural blueprints, and roadmaps while acquiring buy-in from the enterprise. The Enterprise Information Architect will guide and direct Data Architects to define and oversee all aspects of data architecture and governance, design, analysis techniques, and data architecture processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide thought leadership in all areas of data and information management, including master and reference data management, data modeling, data governance, data quality, data standardization, and metadata management.

• Lead and/or facilitate enterprise information and data strategy development to achieve enterprise goals and objectives

• Actively manage, communicate, and market the enterprise information architecture strategy and techniques via creation and maintenance of architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and executive presentations

• Promote and support elimination of data redundancy, fragmentation, and unnecessary movement of data through the establishment and enforcement of data system of record (SOR), source of truth (SOT), source of origin (SOO).

• Continuously improve and mature information and data architecture practice and processes

• Lead the development and application of information policies, principles, standards, patterns, and governance processes for information, data, and metadata to achieve an integrated definition of data for enterprise information, and to ensure the accuracy, validity, and reusability of metadata.

• Maintain awareness, research, drive, and lead adoption of emerging IT trends, disruptions, and practices relevant to enterprise information and data architecture

• Engage leadership to identify business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable and drive business outcomes

• Lead the analysis of the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommend solutions for improvement

• ​Develop, maintain, and evolve the architecture and solution intent (current state, transition state, and future state) across domains

• Assist in maintaining the repository of current state, transition state, and future state information architecture deliverables

• Lead and facilitate Data Architecture community of practice meetings and represent the information and data architecture domain at the Architecture Review Board.

• Work closely with the product portfolio owners and product managers to drive a robust information and data architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product and solution lifecycle

• Coach, mentor, and collaborate with technical subject matter experts and architecture peers to develop architecture that enables and drive new business capabilities and operating models

• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; HS diploma or GED is required

• 10 years of related work experience in Business Analysis, System Design and Development, Systems Engineering, or technical architecture; to include 5 years direct experience working within an Architect role

• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship

Additional Qualifications

• Significant experience defining and standardizing design and architecture patterns for assigned domain

• Advanced ability to communicate and present effectively at multiple levels of the organization

• Ability to define, plan, initiate and lead architecture and teams for assigned area and scope

• Demonstrate wide understanding of multiple domain areas, with ability to apply practical and pragmatic solutions

• Self-learner, ability to work independently and direct the learning and work of others

• Experience handling all of solution types, ranging from organization and process to implementing new system builds, legacy enhancements, commercial-off-the-shelf packages, and Cloud solutions

• Experience as a senior level architect working on significant enterprise initiatives

• Previous experience with data modeling, data lineage, data quality, data profiling, and metadata management tools (ER/Studio, XMLSpy, InfoSphere Data Architect, Informatica, etc.)

• Working knowledge of transactional (OLTP), reporting and analytics (OLAP), business event, messaging, and API contract design best practices and patterns

• Previous experience with enterprise architecture tool and knowledge repository such as Planview CTM / Enterprise Architect, Sparx, Software AG, etc.

• Previous experience with SAFe Agile Framewor ​

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience in data modeling and database design

• Experience working with industry and reference data models (HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, Teradata Healthcare Data Model, IBM Healthcare Data Model, Pega Foundation for Healthcare, Salesforce Health Cloud, etc.)

• Experience with relational, document, message and business event data stores and technologies

• Experience working with regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA and/or PCI)

• Previous experience in PBM / health care industry

• Strong experience with software development life cycle and project management principles

• In-depth knowledge of two or more architectural domains (application, infrastructure, integration, and/or security)

• Formal Enterprise Architecture training and certification

• Experience modeling Enterprise Architectures with industry standard modeling notation ​

Physical Demands

• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

• Constantly required to sit, use hands to handle or feel, talk and hear

• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms

• Occasionally required to stand, walk and stoop, kneel, and crouch

• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their job, and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We encourage diverse candidates to apply, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected class under federal, state, or local law.   

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives including qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and any qualified applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is a Tobacco-Free Workplace employer.

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