Senior Principal Enterprise Portfolio Architect - State Government Solutions - Remote

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Topeka, KS

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior Principal Enterprise Portfolio Architect for State Government Solutions at Prime Therapeutics plays a crucial role in modernizing the product portfolio and technology platforms. This position provides technical vision and leadership to align IT solutions with business outcomes, overseeing strategic initiatives that impact the State Government Solutions line of business. The architect is responsible for leading capability changes, defining architecture, and ensuring that solutions meet business needs while adhering to governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or facilitate the State Government Solutions portfolio strategy development to achieve enterprise goals and objectives
• Actively manage, communicate, and market the State Government Solutions portfolio strategy via creation and maintenance of architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and executive presentations
• Promote decision-making at the appropriate organizational level and identify opportunities for shared capabilities to reduce costs, improve integration, and reduce duplication
• Lead the architecture and solution definition for strategic products, initiatives and programs impacting State Government Solutions capabilities
• Maintain awareness, research, drive, and lead adoption of emerging technology trends, disruptions, and practices relevant to the portfolio
• Engage key business and IT stakeholders to identify business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable and drive business outcomes
• Assist in the development of policies, standards, guidelines, and reference implementations that direct the selection, solution, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise
• Develop, maintain, and evolve the architecture and architecture blueprint (current state, transition state, and future state) within assigned area and across dependent business areas
• Lead the analysis of the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommend investments for improvement
• Govern architecturally significant work, aligning it with business and IT strategies, through architecture reviews, solution architecture, and application architecture collaboration
• Work closely cross-functionally with business, and IT stakeholders to drive a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product and solution lifecycle
• Coach, mentor, and collaborate with technical subject matter experts and architecture peers to develop architecture that enables and drive new business capabilities and operating models
• Drive architecture practice process consistency and continuously improve enterprise and portfolio architecture practices for the assigned area
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; HS diploma or GED is required
• 10 years of related work experience in Business Analysis, System Design and Development, Systems Engineering, or technical architecture; to include 5 years direct experience working within an Architect role
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship
• Significant business analysis and business architecture experience consisting of business capability modeling, value stream definition and optimization, design thinking, business process optimization and business case development
• Experience defining and standardizing architecture definition for assigned domain
• Advanced ability to communicate and present effectively at multiple levels of the organization
• Ability to define, plan, initiate and lead architecture and teams for assigned area and scope
• Demonstrate wide understanding of multiple domain areas, with ability to apply practical and pragmatic solutions
• Self-learner, ability to work independently and direct the learning and work of others
• Experience handling all of solution types, ranging from organization and process to implementing new system builds, legacy enhancements, commercial-off-the-shelf packages, and Cloud solutions
• Experience as a senior level architect working on significant enterprise initiatives
• Previous experience working with enterprise architecture tools
• Previous experience with SAFe Agile Framework

Nice-to-haves

• Practitioner knowledge of business architecture and enterprise architecture development
• Experience working with regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA and/or PCI)
• Previous experience in Pharmacy Benefit Administration, Pharmacy Benefit Management, or health care
• Previous experience working in an Agile/Product Delivery model
• Strong experience with software development life cycle and project management principles
• Master's degree in Computer Science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education
• In-depth knowledge of two or more architectural domains (business, data, application, technology)
• Formal Business Architecture and/or Enterprise Architecture training and certification
• Experience modeling Enterprise Architectures with industry standard modeling notation

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee discount programs
• Wellness programs