Senior Enterprise Solution Architect
Highmarkhealth· enterprise· Healthcare· Oct 2, 2026 · 26d ago
PA Working at Home Pennsylvania
In office
Full-time
Senior
$145K–$185K est.
5+ years exp
Job description
Company : enGen Job Description : JOB SUMMARY
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Enterprise Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of innovative, robust, and scalable solutions that address complex business capabilities and needs. This pivotal role requires a strong focus on conceptualizing future-state solutions by effectively translating complex business requirements, collaborating closely with business architects and product Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and critically defining and ensuring the implementation of essential non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, scalability, reliability).
As a Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, you will be responsible for developing detailed architectural diagrams, modeling, and representing diverse architectural views (e.g., deployment, data, application, security) using industry-standard modeling techniques such as ArchiMate. You will ensure that all proposed solutions meticulously adhere to existing enterprise reference architecture standards and strategic architectural guidelines, playing a crucial role in operationalizing strategy and ensuring successful solution delivery.
A key aspect of this role involves providing strategic consultation and technical leadership, guiding projects through the full solution lifecycle, and driving alignment across various technical domains. You will effectively collaborate with Enterprise Architects and engineering teams to ensure solution designs contribute to the overarching enterprise architectural vision and strategic initiatives. This position demands proven experience within the healthcare payer industry, a deep understanding of emerging technologies, and the ability to articulate architectural concepts and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing more complex 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 more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in more complex enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively. Review 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 more complex architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more 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 more complex architectures. Take a lead role to 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 more complex tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Take a lead role to identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which more 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 achieve improvement.
Take a lead role to ensure the resolution of a variety of more complex 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 of a more complex nature.
Take a lead role in providing 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: preparing presentations on more complex issues on the area of expertise and presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to the Organization s strategic direction.
Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
Required
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline
Substitutions
None
Preferred
Master s Degree
EXPERIENCE
Required
5 years in an IT discipline
5 years in a Business discipline
Preferred
Health Insurance Industry business knowledge
Extensive experience with solution design and architecture across complex enterprise systems.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
None
Preferred
Industry certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate
Certifications relevant to Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Security Architecture
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
Waterfall
Agile
Language (other than English)
None
Travel Requirement
0% -25%
PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS
Position Type
Office-Based
Teaches / trains others regularly
Frequently
Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site
Does Not Apply
Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)
Never
Physical work site required
Yes
Lifting: up to 10 pounds
Constantly
Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds
Rarely
Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds
Rarely
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 position 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:
$102,700.00
Pay Range Maximum:
$164,600.00
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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