Senior IT Application Architect - Remote

The Senior IT Application Architects provide mentorship and provides technology oversight to Development Leads, Principal Developers and Application architects. Responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of the applications architecture across the system and providing technical guidance to the development teams. Define application architectures and recommends courses of action to ensure technology is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business. Serves the company as an advisor on best practices and stays current on business initiatives and objectives. Researches and evaluates new technology and development tools to remain abreast of current and emerging technology. Senior IT Application Architects lead efforts, oversee work results, providing formal training and serve as a technical resource for others.

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert in application architecture to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges. Builds consensus around principles of application architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
• Evaluates strengths and flaws in application architecture designs including performance, quality, and availability, simplicity of design, security and total cost of ownership. Define reusable components and patterns.
• Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options. Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers. Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and business area architecture blueprints.
• Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Provides guidance on integration solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations. Establishes and maintains vendor relationships to review and evaluate designs and controls and influence changes in future product releases.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls communicating business value and ROI of architecture. Mentors and provides technical oversight of work of less experienced Architects.

What is Required:

• 6+ years' work experience in IT development/programming/coding professional work and education and 2 or more years of work experience as an Application Architect working on progressively complex IT projects
• Hands-on experience with Elastic/ Elk Architecture
• Experience with Claims data pipelines and ML and Elastic Search environment/architecture
• Knowledge around Large Language Models, Gen AI

• Proficient in programming languages commonly used in MLOps and machine learning (e.g., Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch).• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Claims domain experience and knowledge.
• Proficiency using versioning and debugging tools.
• Exceptional leadership skills demonstrated through projects/programs.
• Practitioner of Project Management Methodologies (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile discipline) &Knowledge in Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) software engineering practices
• Extensive experience in defining extensible architectures that can be built by project team incrementally.
• Advanced knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and emerging technology solutions and trends and proficiency in creating architecture, green-field and redesign, and communicate the same to project team
• Proficiency in creating architectural designs for gradually complex designs across applications within supported business area, and aligning and rationalizing business applications to simplify the IT portfolio and reduce costs
• Critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy
• Demonstrated ability to understand overall IT strategy and apply/implement IT strategy in assigned projects/initiatives.
• Proven success in communicating highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for wide variety of audiences.
• Highly adept at consulting, negotiating, communicating, consensus building, presentation and facilitation, as well as innovating and thinking beyond established standards and processes
• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field or equivalent work experience

What is Preferred:• Broad knowledge of application suite required to support business area needs

General Physical Demands

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

What We Offer:

As a Florida Blue employee, you will thrive in our Be Well, Work Well, GuideWell culture where being well as an individual, and working well as a team, are both important in serving our members and communities.

To support your wellbeing, comprehensive benefits are offered. As an employee, you will have access to:

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance;
• Income protection benefits: life insurance, Short- and long-term disability programs;
• Leave programs to support personal circumstances;
• Retirement Savings Plan includes employer contribution and employer match;
• Paid time off, volunteer time off, and 11 holidays
• Additional voluntary benefits available; and
• A comprehensive wellness program

Employee benefits are designed to align with federal and state employment laws. Benefits may vary based on the state in which work is performed. Benefits for intern, part-time and seasonal employees may differ.

To support your financial wellbeing, we offer competitive pay as well as opportunities for incentive or commission compensation. We also conduct regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases.

Annualized Salary Range: $121,300 - $197,100

Typical Annualized Hiring Range: $121,300 - $151,600

Final pay will be determined with consideration of market competitiveness, internal equity, and the job-related knowledge, skills, training, and experience you bring.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for our employees and communities.