Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona is a healthcare organization that provides health insurance coverage for individuals, families, employers, and Medicare members. Its offerings include self-insured and ACA-compliant plans, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid options. The company works to connect members with care through a broad provider network, with a focus on healthcare access, improved outcomes, and community health.

Senior Digital Application Architect — Hybrid, Arizona

Lead secure digital architecture for web, mobile, cloud, and enterprise solutions supporting AZ Blue’s health insurance business. Shape integrations, security controls, compliance, and delivery across complex technology initiatives.

Description

  • Create solution designs that maintain and enhance digital systems
  • Apply architecture principles consistently across solutions
  • Validate requirements to support effective solution development
  • Prepare Digital Impact Assessments, including squad-level effort estimates
  • Evaluate security implications and communicate them to relevant teams
  • Produce digital architecture artifacts and review artifacts for non-digital systems
  • Coordinate with third-party service providers as needed
  • Evaluate the effects of PCI, NACHA, HIPAA, and Section 508 requirements on digital solutions
  • Design and implement high-performance, integrated web and mobile systems across the enterprise digital footprint
  • Partner with IT management, product owners, scrum masters, and project managers throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Contribute business and technical requirements, estimates, status reports, and on-time project delivery
  • Design controls that safeguard networks, applications, and data
  • Lead custom solution design and implementation across on-premises, Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments
  • Keep digital delivery plans aligned with completed work
  • Bridge IT teams and business stakeholders on technical matters and significant changes
  • Educate, coach, mentor, and provide performance feedback to team members
  • Standardize development environments, tooling, and deployment practices
  • Contribute to technical strategy and advance the use of security technologies
  • Work with Digital teams, IT leaders, business stakeholders, enterprise architects, and subject matter experts to strengthen the digital footprint
  • Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of application design and development experience
  • At least 3 years architecting applications with .NET and Microsoft technologies
  • At least 3 years implementing and integrating enterprise digital applications in complex business environments
  • At least 2 years implementing or improving application security
  • High school diploma
  • Deep knowledge of application security and end-to-end solution protection
  • Advanced command of coding patterns and service architecture
  • Experience documenting business processes and producing process-flow, UML, and sequence diagrams
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure hosting technologies and software development methods
  • Extensive experience with or understanding of service technologies and standards, the .NET platform, and web-service specifications
  • Technical proficiency in XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, GRID, ASP.NET, MVC, Angular, VB.NET, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, SQL, content management systems, and GUI development
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure and security architecture concepts
  • Advanced knowledge of object-oriented principles, design patterns, SOA, and enterprise systems
  • Strong command of database design fundamentals
  • Understanding of NoSQL, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and microservices architecture
  • Familiarity with Enterprise Service Bus architecture in Microsoft BizTalk or another platform
  • Familiarity with cloud technologies
  • Ability to design and implement multi-tier architectures, high-performance systems, secure solutions, and integrations
  • Experience leading and delivering projects collaboratively across departments
  • Ability to prioritize work and manage competing priorities
  • Availability to work full-time for at least 40 hours weekly, with possible evening, weekend, or on-call schedules

Benefits

  • Hybrid scheduling supported through AZ Blue’s Workability strategy
  • Full-time employment arrangement
  • Access to health insurance products and services offered by the employer
  • Exposure to emerging security technologies and tools
  • Professional coaching and mentoring opportunities
  • Opportunities for team building and cross-functional collaboration

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