Lead Architect - Informatica

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JOB SUMMARY
Due to Department of Defense (DOD) contract requirements, the incumbent who fills this position*

must

be a US citizen and must also pass a background check. *
Within area of expertise (application, solution, information, technology, business), designs, develops, implements, supports, and optimizes architecture strategy from a leadership position to meet the most complex business capabilities and needs. Ensures completeness of the most complex architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders from a leadership position. Ensures integrity of the most complex architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders, reconciling conflicting concerns, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing. Develops strategic roadmaps and deploys Informatica tools in the Cloud. Considers practicality and fitness for purpose in determining architecture to develop or purchase. Within area of expertise, leverages business and technology knowledge to enable and/or alter business processes, practices, organizations, and systems. Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices. May lead special assignments and mentor less experienced team members.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing 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 the most complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
Specify and design large or the most complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Lead reviews of 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 architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on the most 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 the most complex architectures. 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 tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which the most 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 achieving improvement.
Lead the resolution of a variety of 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.
Provide 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:
Prepare presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise.
Present to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction.
Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
Required
Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or closely related field
Substitutions
None
Preferred
Master's Degree
EXPERIENCE
Required
7 years in an IT discipline
7 years n a Business discipline
Preferred
Health insurance industry business knowledge
5+ years of Informatica experience using at least 2 or more of the following DEI (Data Engineering Integration), IDQ (Informatica Data Quality), Power Center, Power Exchange, REF360 or MDM (Master Data Management) tools.
Ability to manage RFP/RPI initiatives, proficient with creating ROI and performing impact analysis.
Experience in leading the implementation of best practices across the organization, contributing heavily, or leading a Center of Excellent program.
Experience performing system tuning and capacity planning.
Experience with cloud computing, data integration and data warehousing.
Experience with data security and compliance.
Understanding of the IBMs CDC (Change Data Capture) tool.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
None
Preferred
Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogon, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management
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
PEGA
CSS3
JSON
Cognos
Hadoop
SQL
J2EE
HTML5/XML
Project Management Tools: Waterfall and/or Agile
SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Does this role supervise/manage other employees?
No
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Is Travel Required?
Yes
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, r.