Infrastructure Architect – Database & Storage
$114,000–$143,000 year
On-siteSalt Lake City, Utah, United States or Portland, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Lead architectural vision for resilient database and storage infrastructure across cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid configurations. Design comprehensive solutions covering transactional databases, performance tiering, encryption, and disaster recovery with defined RTO and RTO targets. Establish enterprise standards for resiliency, high availability, and cyber recovery including ransomware protection. Embed deep observability and automated telemetry to proactively identify performance and integrity risks. Ensure infrastructure adheres to security standards through encryption, network segmentation, and audit logging. Conduct capacity planning assessments and develop forecasting models to anticipate growth. Maintain reference architectures and technology roadmaps while engaging with the Enterprise Architecture team for alignment. Estimate resources, audit project status, and coordinate with Information Security teams to remediate vulnerabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related/relevant field
- Seven years in IT
- Minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience
- Minimum of three years' experience evaluating business requirements and then designing complete systems solutions in complex environments
- Strong business understanding including health insurance technologies and regulations
- Demonstrated architecture experience in a single business unit to line of business or single technology field
- Domain expert in one or more major platform and relevant technologies and how those platforms relate to overall technology infrastructure
- Possesses comprehensive understanding of competitor's products and related technologies how those products and technologies compare with existing technologies
- Demonstrated understanding of complex systems integration issues involving many disparate data sources, and experience in resolving them through providing clear direction on scope of solution
- Understands and resolves highly complex large scale or systems level problems
- Able to quickly and efficiently solve such problems using team resources to coordinate solutions
- Proficient at writing code to solve a broad range of problems of varying complexity
- Demonstrated functional and technical skills including the ability to architect effective solutions for a growing Software as a Service company
- Knowledge of Archimate and TOGAF, or equivalent frameworks
- Ability to apply verbal, written and persuasive communication skills to influence others both individually and groups
- Proficient in utilization of audio/visual tools to effectively present to groups and capable of communicating technical information to other functions or groups both inside and outside of the organization
- Ability to successfully influence and lead project direction and work with peers to implement ideas and concepts
- Ability to work with business in their language to support and promote concepts
- Demonstrated high levels of personal output and ability to increase the productivity of architecture function
- Demonstrated interpersonal savvy, relates well to all kinds of people in the organization regardless of level, establishes trust and constructive relationships
- Demonstrated excellent problem-solving skills and uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
- Demonstrated good decision quality, makes sound decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
- Capable of leading multiple product teams to implement product strategies throughout engineering
- Ability to actively support and influence product family objectives
- Demonstrated leadership skills for large projects in a technological field with a high emphasis on communicative and interpersonal relationship skills
- Demonstrated excellent negotiations skills with both internal and external groups including ability to settle differences with a minimum of noise and a maximum level of diplomacy and tact
- Includes ability to influence without direct authority
- Candidates must reside within commutable distance of that location or be willing to relocate
Desired Qualifications
- A minimum of seven years in IT with a minimum of two years of technical leadership and architecture experience and a minimum of three years' experience evaluating business requirements and then designing complete systems solutions in complex environments plus strong business understanding including health insurance technologies and regulations
- Experience in the health insurance industry, payer oriented processes and systems
- An advanced degree
- Experience in the health insurance industry, payer-oriented processes and systems
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