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A direct report of the CIO, the Enterprise Architect serves as internal consultant, strategist, and tactician in defining, recommending, and implementing the next generation architecture and infrastructure needed to to support deployment of web-based, interactive, innovative insurance policy administration systems. There will be occasional client facing & industry conference attendance and these items are expected to be fewer than 10 % of time utilization in role.

This role for one who is a “pragmatic architect.” Someone who can produce an architecture and IMMEDIATELY implement through engaged leadership. A person who can balance business value with technical purity. This is not an “ivory tower” or “white paper” role.

The goals of the role include defining the enterprise architecture of the entire platform ensuring rich insurance functionality while ensuring capacity, resiliency, scalability, security, and flexibility.

Responsibilities:
•    Evaluate and recommend new technologies; architect solutions that meet the organization’s short and long term objectives. This will include, but is not limited to, development of future state architecture recommendation with tools & technologies to instantiate.
•    Partner with the CIO and other key stakeholders in the organization in planning, budgeting, and resourcing for Lab based technology team who will develop the next generation application & underlying infrastructure based upon the architecture
•    Assess infrastructure and environment needs on projects and systems and recommend architectural solutions
•    Conduct and lead infrastructure design, including logical design, server topology, and environment placement
•    Perform infrastructure capacity planning and ensure system environments are adequately scalable for anticipated growth and availability

Qualifications

Requirements
•    Minimum of 12+ years of IT experience in an insurance administration or related environment (Group and Individual Life, Health, Annuity and Hybrid products) necessary and 2 years of Senior-level Systems Analyst-related experience
•    Expert level technical and domain experience in JEE/J2EE & all associated Java tools, design patterns, technologies etc.
•    4+ years of experience designing, specifying, deploying, supporting and managing complex technology solutions in an insurance environment
•    Experience in migrating from heterogeneous technology environments to state of the art environments
•    Proficient in installing and administering large scale server environments
•    Experience architecting, designing, and deployment environments for global web-based systems
•    Experience delivering infrastructure solutions in secure environments
•    Knowledge of infrastructure security methods, including firewalls, proxies, encryption, PKI, PGP, security zoning, and security appliances required
•    Proven internal and external consultative skills
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills
•    Ability to communicate both verbally and written to all levels of staff and business clients, varying language and technical skills
•    Demonstrated project management and mentoring competencies
•    Presentation and facilitation skills
•    Strong system analytical and troubleshooting skills in distributed secure computing environments
•    Some travel required (less than 5 %)

This is a full time, direct hire opportunity. Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience.
This is a confidential opportunity and a Non-disclosure will be required. To apply with interest, please provide an updated MSWord version of your resume and salary range to James Lombardo at [email protected].

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Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience. To apply with interest, please provide an updated MSWord version of your resume and salary range.

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