Senior Application Architect - Paragon Healthcare

Application Architect, Sr

A proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, Paragon Healthcare brings over 20 years in providing life-saving and life-giving infusible and injectable drug therapies through our specialty pharmacies, our infusion centers, and the home setting.

Location : Plano, TX

Onsite position, Monday - Friday (1-2 Days per week remote)

The Senior Application Architect is responsible for creating architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design.

How you will make an impact:

• Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment; drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.

• Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged; contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.

• Defines architecture standards and anticipate areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards.

• Directs the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).

• Works with business units to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures.

• Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives; develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies; Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field of study

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences :

• Experience in the healthcare industry

• TOGAF (8 or 9) certification

• AWS experience