Enterprise architect & Senior Enterprise Solution Architect Full Time

Company Description

Cogentix Systems Ltd is a specialized IT consulting and software engineering company focused on reimagining software development processes to help clients accelerate their software development lifecycle. We offer end-to-end services, from initial concept to final delivery, and ensure seamless support throughout the software life cycle. Working in true partnership with our clients, we act as an extension of their teams to design, develop, modernize, and maintain their software portfolio for maximum efficiency and innovation.

Role Description

As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you play a pivotal role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and framing enterprise standards. You will be an integral part of the delivery of critical business outcomes, as well as the creation of technology strategies to leverage the IT. Additionally, as a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana.

• Serve as a strong advocate for the business within IT and ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy.
• Help achieve value-driven outcomes by ensuring Humana’s Technology Strategy is executed in alignment with corporate vision and segment business strategies.
• Engage in enterprise technology modernization initiatives working with the application teams and key business and IT stakeholders and help deliver value through architecture guidance and execution support.
• Mentor pattern-based development with a strong focus on resource & cost optimization.
• Serve as an evangelist for, facilitate and drive adoption and delivery of the lean enterprise architecture practice within an agile delivery framework.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities and business functions.
• Collaborate with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership to document the current state architecture, value streams and domain capability models.
• Apply portfolio rationalization to map and document the coverage between Value Streams, Business Capabilities, and Technology Capabilities and identify opportunities for innovation, as well as reduction in risk, complexity, and total cost of operations.
• Collaborate with technical teams and leadership to define and maintain technology strategies, including intermediate and end state architectures, to align the technology portfolio to deliver the opportunities identified in the technology portfolio rationalization and the business value defined by the business vision and strategy.
• Lead Application modernization initiatives including rearchitecting legacy mainframe, stand-alone and web-based applications to value driven enterprise architecture standards.
• Enable continued innovation and evolution of the cloud everything-as-a-service including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS platforms in collaboration with Segment teams and other Enterprise Shared Services Teams.
• Maintain standards & policies including revalidating them based on latest trends & best practices and socializing it with user friendly documentation.
• Create Cost Models/Dashboards for applications based on resource utilization, licensing cost and help application teams determine the TCO and plan for future needs.
• Evaluate new technologies/platforms for continuous improvement of our assets and develop architecture standards to leverage them.
• Choose and adeptly use appropriate cloud services, technologies, tools, methodologies and solutions to make sure that the architecture is robust, integrated and aligned with the strategy and long-term objectives of the organization.
• Mentor the application teams with enterprise data use standards and help them solve non-functional needs like logging, auditing, and end-to-end observability.
• Support application teams through various enterprise governance process and provide “white glove” support to ensure successful implementation.

Senior level Enterprise Solution Architect, responsible for complex, cross-domain solutions that incorporate diverse technology and multiple architectural patterns and strategies based on the business goals and objectives. 

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Crafting solution designs that incorporate all aspects of technology delivery based upon business value drivers and return on investment; drives new solutions towards implementation and optimal usage.
• Establishing overall solutions architecture vision and ensuring specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged; contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.
• Maintaining components of architectural strategy and vision.
• Defining architecture standards and anticipating areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards.
• Directing the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture) in collaboration with teams of architects, analysis and developers.
• Leading the certification of Enterprise Solutions by providing quality review and actionable feedback on architectural solutions created by architects throughout the organization.
• Leading teams of IT and business representatives to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures.
• Defining systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives; understands and contributes to architectural blueprints and evolutionary roadmaps that defines and communicates the strategic direction and applies them to executing project work
• Driving the guidance provided by roadmaps and architecture strategies into solutions to promote cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness
• Supporting and championing architecture efforts with cross-functional knowledge (e.g., strategy, change management, business process management).
• Using metrics and insight into IT environment to assess the health of solutions and enforce alignment to target architecture blueprints. 

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Progressive experience as a senior application and/or solution architect or technical lead in large company spanning multiple enterprise systems.
• 10 or more years design, development, and testing of software applications.
• Expertise in all SDLC activities including ideation, design, implementation, validating functional and non-functional aspects, and Day2 operations.
• Expert knowledge and experience with enterprise architecture pattern development and application, cloud native architectures and agile delivery.
• Proficient in evaluating multiple tools and evaluating the best suitable tool based on organizational needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• Associate or Professional level solution architecture certification in Azure, GCP and/or AWS.
• 3-5 years of experience in Cloud technologies, Cloud migration or Enterprise Architecture.
• Familiarity/certification in architectural frameworks like TOGAF
• Experience with various CI/CD Quality Drivers and implementation approaches
• Expertise in Enterprise Architecture repository tools like iServer
• 2+ years of project leadership and consulting experience.
• Health Care Business Domains – Medicare, Medicaid, Group, Specialty etc.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Enterprise Architecture, with practical experience in aligning technical strategies with business goals.
• Strong skills in Business Architecture, ensuring business models are reflected accurately in system solutions.
• Expertise in Technical Architecture and Application Architecture, with a focus on scalability, performance, and innovation.
• Solid experience in Solution Architecture, including integration, technology evaluation, and problem-solving across platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures and emerging industry trends is a plus.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.