Application Solutions Architect - Jacksonville

APPLICATION SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT (with healthcare)
ARC Group has an immediate opportunity for an Application Solutions Architect with a background in healthcare, ideally from the payer side with a focus on java architecture. This is a contract position running through May 2021 with strong potential to extend or potentially convert to FTE. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected and dynamic organization that offers tremendous career growth potential.
 
US Citizens and Green Card holders only. No third parties, No C2C. This a 100% remote position working East Coast hours.
 

Healthcare project work is required and someone with prior Blue Cross / BCBS plans project work is strongly preferred.


ARC Group is a Forbes-ranked a top 20 recruiting and executive search firm working with clients nationwide to recruit the highest quality technical resources. We have achieved this by understanding both our candidate's and clients' needs and goals and serving both with integrity and a shared desire to succeed.

Application Solutions Architect Duties:

• Development and implementation of cross-functional application design strategy, architecture to ensure solutions are optimized for flexibility, scalability, security and performance.
• Making software solutions more understandable and manageable by providing unifying and simplifying concepts including better work partitioning with and manageable dependencies.
• Adhere to corporate architecture standards, ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained across the org. and contributing to corporate architecture strategy-setting.
• Accountable for shepherding the design solution all the way through coding, testing and into production, including resolution of post-production issues.
• Participate in governance processes of new technologies and solutions to ensure consistent technology life cycle management.
• Participates in formulating solution estimates and working planning including determining appropriate task sequencing and identification of technical skill sets required.
• Builds consensus around principles of application architecture and interprets and clarifies these
• Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
• Develops conceptual, logical and physical application process and architecture, working closely with other Architects as needed.
• Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blueprints.
• Evaluates strengths and flaws in application architecture including performance, quality, availability, simplicity of design, security and total cost of ownership.
• Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners and provides consultation to the BRM and business teams.
• Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
• Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects.
• Participates in issues resolution by removing barriers and driving development teams toward a solution.
• Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
• Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.
• Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.

Application Solutions Architect Requirements:

• 2-3 years current years of application architecture solutioning with Java Architecture, creating SOAP Services, etc.
• 5-8 years of work experience designing systems/applications architecture on progressively complex IT projects.
• Healthcare project work is required and someone with prior Blue Cross / BCBS plans project work is strongly preferred
• Strong experience with UI & React OR Angular
• Demonstrated proficiency in creating gradually complex architectural designs.
• Proficiency in consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation.
• Mastery of a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices.
• Experience and understanding of a variety of operating systems
• A broad and deep understanding of databases.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and think beyond established standards and processes.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends including security and regulatory industry requirements.
• Demonstrated effective decision-making skills related to implementing architecture and design.
• Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies.
• In-depth knowledge of development practices of application technologies.

For immediate consideration, please send resumes directly to Jon Meredith at jonm@arcgonline.com or call 954.715.4793
 
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