JOB DESCRIPTION
Your Role

The Enterprise Architecture and Health Innovation team owns and represents and documents specific large enterprise level technical directions. The Director, Technology and Data Architecture leader will report to the VP of Enterprise Architecture and Health Innovation. In this role you will be responsible for establishing the strategy, vision, and roadmap for the technology platform of the Blue Shield of California. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Carry a comprehensive understanding of cloud and data technologies, legacy to help create a strategic architecture roadmap that addresses innovations, upgrades, and path for modernization.
• Define a technology and data architectural strategy that supports the short, medium and long-term business objectives
• Create a technology and data roadmap for current state and future state that is consistent with the overall IT roadmap and strategy and the enterprise strategy
• Serve as the single point of coordination and accountability for all decisions and engagements associated with the technical and data architecture.
• Develop, implement, and own technology standards for the enterprise.
• Execute architecture strategies and program operating model to ensure the optimal architecture governance, processes, framework, and deliverables.
• Stay informed on business and IT vision, strategy, and priorities and their impact to architecture. Stays current on new and emerging technologies and translates these into impact and technology direction for BSC.
• Provide specific requirements and needs for projects, initiatives, and ongoing production systems.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing technical architecture and standards governance across multiple projects and initiatives. Responsibilities include ensuring that the right design reviews are done prior to build, and escalation paths are followed where appropriate.
• Validate project technical design against scalability, extensibility, and adaptability best
• Provide options and alternatives with associated cost-benefit analysis, risks, and recommendations for issues and problems.
• Provide oversight to projects relating to the implementation and continuing renewal of technology architecture frameworks, tools, and platforms
• Coordinate with other architectural disciplines to: Establish and communicate standards, establish the BSC technical architectural roadmap, evaluate and recommend technologies and tools, platforms, and vendors, review project technical designs, ensure re-usability of components developed on projects across the enterprise, enforce use of standards, and designs using the governance framework.
• Provide due diligence and selection of technologies
• Provide direction to Senior Architects, Architects, and technical leads
• Delegate project-level activities to Senior Architects

QUALIFICATIONS
Your Knowledge and Experience

• 15+ years of system implementation experience in a large IT organization
• 5+ years of direct experience as an Enterprise level Architect, preferably as a Technical Architect
• Experience with modern cloud and data architectures including Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce, and Snowflake or similar industry capabilities.
• Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies and demonstrated proficiency in understanding SDLC methodologies
• Experience in large distributed systems across multiple platforms
• Strong understanding of digital/mobile technologies and platforms including digital employee experience
• Strong understanding of Data management tools like Reltio, Informatica, Denodo etc.
• Strong knowledge of API Management, Batch and Streaming Integration, Advanced Analytics, CI/CD and data visualization technologies
• Familiarity with programing and scripting Languages like Python, Java, PowerShell, Terraform
• Good understanding of virtualization technologies and implementations
• Demonstrated leadership in achieving shared objectives in a matrixed organization, coordinating projects and services across business and organizational boundaries, and building effective cross-functional teams
• Effective communicator with a strong customer service orientation; ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels, and lead and influence senior professionals.
• Proven experience in executing complex releases or programs involving multiple disciplines with agile methodology
• Experience in cloud native infrastructure architecture – software defined network architecture, containerization, DR, FinOps, Observability and security

Preferred Experience:

• Healthcare or large service provider experience
• Experience in large cloud application and data migration and modernization
• MS in Computer Science or Engineering with at least 15 years of relevant IT experience
• Exposure to Health Care Payer Systems such as Facets, Provider Information Management Systems (PIMS), Salesforce Health Cloud, Microsoft cloud for healthcare, Epic, etc
• Experience in security architecture with IAM, application and data protection, Threat and Event detection

Education/Credentials:

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering with at least 15 years of relevant IT experience. BS or BA in other disciplines is acceptable, supplemented with adequate relevant experience.
• MS in Computer Science or Engineering with at least 15 years of relevant IT experience
  

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 167200.00 to $ 250800.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

ABOUT THE TEAM
Blue Shield of California’s mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area’s top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world’s most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in – join us!

Our Values:

• Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human . We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
• Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

From the earliest days of the pandemic, Blue Shield of California has been unyielding in our commitment to putting the health and safety of our people, our members and our communities first. As a health care company, Blue Shield requires all employees to be up to date with COVID-19 vaccination prior to start date as a condition of employment. Blue Shield will consider requests for medical or religious accommodation to this vaccination requirement prior to your start date.

The definition of "up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine" is when you have received all doses in the primary series and one booster when eligible. If you are unable to be up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine by your start date, your start date will need to be postponed and you will have 30 days to remedy. If you cannot fulfill the requirement nor obtain an accommodation within 30 days, your offer will be rescinded.