Lead Architect - Informatica

Phoenix, AZ, United States

Company :

enGen

Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

***** Due to Department of Defense (DOD) contract requirements, the incumbent who fills this position** must be a US citizen and must also pass a background check. ***

Within area of expertise (application, solution, information, technology, business), designs, develops, implements, supports, and optimizes architecture strategy from a leadership position to meet the most complex business capabilities and needs. Ensures completeness of the most complex architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders from a leadership position. Ensures integrity of the most complex architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing. Develops strategic roadmaps and deploys Informatica tools in the Cloud. Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to develop or purchase. Within area of expertise, leverages business and technology knowledge to enable and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations, and systems. Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices. May lead special assignments and mentor less experienced team members.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead to 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 the most complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

Specify and design large or the most complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Lead reviews of others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establish policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on the most complex major design options. Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.

Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of the most complex architectures. Produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.

Select and use tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which the most complex products or systems will operate. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieving improvement.

Lead the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.

Communicate effectively will all levels of organization

Manage expectations of customers, partners and management

Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making

Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.

Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert 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.

Provide leadership and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by:

Prepare presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise.

Present 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

7 years in an IT discipline

7 years n a Business discipline

Preferred

Health insurance industry business knowledge

5+ years of Informatica experience using at least 2 or more of the following DEI (Data Engineering Integration), IDQ (Informatica Data Quality), Power Center, Power Exchange, REF360 or MDM (Master Data Management) tools.

Ability to manage RFP/RPI initiatives, proficient with creating ROI and performing impact analysis.

Experience in leading the implementation of best practices across the organization, contributing heavily, or leading a Center of Excellent program.

Experience performing system tuning and capacity planning.

Experience with cloud computing, data integration and data warehousing.

Experience with data security and compliance.

Understanding of the IBM’s CDC (Change Data Capture) tool.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Required

None

Preferred

Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogon, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management

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 and/or Agile

SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY

Does this role supervise/manage other employees?

No

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Is Travel Required?

Yes

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Pay Range Minimum:

$92,300.00

Pay Range Maximum:

$170,800.00

Base 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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