JOB SUMMARY
This role, specializing in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and PaaS solutions, is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and optimizing architecture strategies to meet diverse business capabilities and needs. The Solutions Architect ensures the completeness of architecture by addressing all pertinent stakeholder concerns and maintains its integrity by connecting various stakeholder views, reconciling conflicting requirements, and transparently detailing trade-offs made. A practical and fit-for-purpose approach is essential when determining architectural solutions. Leveraging deep business and technology knowledge, this position enables and/or alters business processes, practices, organizations, and systems. The successful candidate will maintain knowledge of emerging technologies and best-in-class industry business trends and practices.
Core Skills and Experience:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise: Proficient in OCI Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs).
- Oracle PaaS Services: Strong experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, and WebLogic.
- Database Administration: Hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and data transformation.
- Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus.
- Security & Compliance: Experience with IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, compliance, and audit processes.
- APIs & Integrations: Demonstrated experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP.
- Performance Optimization: Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking within Oracle Cloud environments.
Core Skills and Experience:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise: Proficient in OCI Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs).
- Oracle PaaS Services: Strong experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, and WebLogic.
- Database Administration: Hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and data transformation.
- Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus.
- Security & Compliance: Experience with IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, compliance, and audit processes.
- APIs & Integrations: Demonstrated experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP.
- Performance Optimization: Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking within Oracle Cloud environments.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing 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 enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
- Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Reviews others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Uses appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
- Selects and uses tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate. Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement.
- Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems/
- Communicates effectively will all levels of organization.
- Manages expectations of customers, partners and management.
- Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk-throughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
- Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of complex requirements for peers and other staff.
- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area:
- Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: Preparing presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise: Presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction.
- Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field
Substitutions
- none
Preferred
- Master's degree
EXPERIENCE
Required
- 3 years of experience in an IT discipline
Preferred
- None
LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS
Required
- None
Preferred
- Industry certifications
- Health insurance industry business knowledge
SKILLS
An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs.
IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing
COBAL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS
Java/JavaScript Framework
PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML
Project Management Tools:
Waterfall
Agile
Certification in application areas such as:
Java Developer
DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise
Architect(SCEA), Project Management
LANGUAGE (Other than English)
None
TRAVEL REQUIREMENT
0% - 25%
PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS
Position Type
Office-based
Teaches / trains others regularly
Occasionally
Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site
Occasionally
Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)
Never
Physical work site required
Yes
Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.
Compliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.
As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy.
Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.
Pay Range Minimum:
$67,500.00Pay Range Maximum:
$126,000.00Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets.
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What We Do
Highmark Health, a Pittsburgh, PA based enterprise that employs more than 40,000 people who serve millions of Americans across the country, is the second largest integrated health care delivery and financing network in the nation based on revenue. Highmark Health is the parent company of Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, and HM Health Solutions. Highmark Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates provide health insurance to nearly 5 million members in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware as well as dental insurance, vision care and related health products through a national network of diversified businesses that include United Concordia Companies, HM Insurance Group, and Visionworks. Allegheny Health Network is the parent company of an integrated delivery network that includes eight hospitals, more than 2,800 affiliated physicians, ambulatory surgery centers, an employed physician organization, home and community-based health services, a research institute, a group purchasing organization, and health and wellness pavilions in western Pennsylvania. HM Health Solutions focuses on meeting the information technology platform and other business needs of the Highmark Health enterprise as well as unaffiliated health insurance plans by providing proven business processes, expert knowledge and integrated cloud-based platforms.
A national blended health organization, Highmark Health and our leading businesses support millions of customers with products, services and solutions closely aligned to our mission of creating remarkable health experiences, freeing people to be their best.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, we're regionally focused in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New York, with customers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
We passionately serve individual consumers and fellow businesses alike. Our companies cover a diversified spectrum of essential health-related needs, including health insurance, health care delivery, population health management, dental solutions, reinsurance solutions, and innovative technology solutions.
We’re also proud to carry forth an important legacy of compassionate care and philanthropy that began more than 170 years ago. This tradition of giving back, reinvesting and ensuring that our communities remain strong and healthy is deeply embedded in our culture, informing our decisions every day.
