Architect Technology

The Architect is accountable for the architectural integrity and evolution of complex systems and their interactions across the enterprise. The role engages early in business and technology planning to shape technical direction establish system boundaries evaluate feasibility and alternatives define nonfunctional requirements resolve architectural trade-offs and connect technology decisions to business outcomes risk and lifecycle health. 

The Architect defines logical architecture solution intent cross-system interactions infrastructure requirements and constraints architectural guardrails transition direction and risk treatments. The role owns designated architectural decisions through commitment and maintains the models evidence rationale and traceability needed to make those decisions understandable reusable and defensible. The Architect works across business product engineering platform infrastructure network data security operations compliance and enterprise architecture while maintaining clear accountability boundaries with Platform Engineering and delivery teams. 

The Architect is responsible for the safe and effective architectural use of artificial intelligence including AI-enabled products models retrieval solutions and agents. The role establishes intended use data and autonomy boundaries human-accountability requirements evaluation expectations evidence standards monitoring and lifecycle controls proportionate to consequence and risk. 

What you will do:  

• Architecture and Solution Intent: Define and evolve logical architecture and solution intent for one or more systems and their interactions.  
• Infrastructure Architecture and Platform Alignment: Define the infrastructure capabilities constraints nonfunctional requirements and risk treatments required to support solution intent across cloud on-premises network compute storage runtime identity observability resilience backup recovery and continuity concerns.  
• Upstream Shaping and Feasibility: Engage in discovery intake portfolio and product planning before investment decisions are committed.  
• Architectural Decisions: Lead designated architectural decisions from framing through commitment. Make trade-offs explicit; identify decision owners and affected stakeholders; and document what was decided why where the decision applies and the conditions that would cause reconsideration.  
• AI and Agent Architecture: Determine when AI is appropriate and select architecture patterns consistent with intended use and risk.  
• Standards Guardrails and Reuse: Apply and evolve enterprise principles standards reference architectures approved patterns and regulatory obligations. 
• Lifecycle Risk and Technical Debt: Steward architectural integrity across introduction change operation modernization and retirement. 
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with product management business owners engineering data security infrastructure network platform operations compliance and other architects.  
• Evidence and Continuous Improvement: Maintain architecture models decision records risks assumptions standards and conformance evidence in governed systems of record.  

Qualifications :

Preferred: 

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP).  
• Knowledge of microservices APIs and event-driven architectures.  
• Exposure to architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF SAFe Zachman). 
• Experience in a regulated industry such as health insurance healthcare financial services or government. 
• Experience with product operating models Lean Portfolio Management SAFe or comparable enterprise planning and delivery approaches. 
• Experience with enterprise architecture modeling architecture repositories and governed architecture decision records. 
• Experience defining testable architectural guardrails fitness functions policy-as-code or delivery-pipeline conformance checks. 
• Experience with AI machine learning retrieval-augmented solutions or agent-based systems including evaluation monitoring data governance privacy security and human oversight. 
• Depth in one or more relevant domains such as business architecture data security integration or interoperability application cloud platform infrastructure network resilience or a health-plan value stream. 
• Relevant architecture or domain certification. 

Required: 

• Bachelors degree or direct and applicable work experience. 
• Minimum 7 years of experience of which could be any combination of the following: Security application experience including program controls processes security tools such as encryption at rest encryption in transit etc. 
• Minimum 4 years of cloud architecture experience including system integration application development and system analysis. 
• Proven experience designing and guiding complex technical systems. Strong understanding of software architecture principles and system integration. Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams. Ability to document and communicate architecture clearly and concisely. Familiarity with lifecycle management of systems in a large enterprise. 
• Expert knowledge of network protocols and enterprise network architecture and the ability to research architect and drive complete technical solutions consisting of multiple technologies. 
• Experience securing workloads. 
• Experience migrating to the public cloud (Amazon Google Microsoft). 
• Experience managing cloud access security brokers (CASB) including single sign on authorization encryption etc. 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database systems. 
• Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter who can lead others and focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Flexible and adaptable to change. 
• Experience managing and understanding stakeholder issues providing clear and concise communication and counseling to stakeholders. 
• Change agent with the proven ability to influence others by using appropriate skills to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work reach consensus or take action. 
• Experience using strong business knowledge and perspective synthesize complex information and develop theories to arrive at logical recommendations. Adept at viewing situations from the stakeholders perspective to better address their needs and expectations. 
• Ability to maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures business processes work requirements or cultures. 
• Travel required up to 5%. 

Additional Information :

a. System Design & Architecture: Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture of one or more systems. Develop and maintain architectural documentation (diagrams patterns decision records). Ensure systems are scalable reliable secure and maintainable. 

b. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering teams to translate business needs into technical designs. Work closely with infrastructure security and DevOps teams to ensure holistic architecture. Serve as the architectural point of contact for delivery teams and product owners. 

c. Standards & Governance: Align system architecture with enterprise architecture guidelines and principles. Participate in architecture review boards and peer design reviews. Ensure adherence to technical standards and compliance requirements. 

d. Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee the full system lifecycle from concept to decommissioning. Identify architectural risks and develop mitigation strategies. Support technical debt management and system evolution planning. 

e. Decision-Making & Documentation: Evaluate technology trade-offs and provide architectural guidance on key decisions. Maintain system-level decision logs and rationale for traceability. Advocate for sound architectural practices and long-term system health. 

f. Other duties as assigned. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Wellmark supports and expects the responsible use of AI for our workforce! We welcome the responsible use of these tools by job seekers as well and are interested in learning from you; you will have an opportunity in the application process to share which tools you used and how you applied them. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time