Highmark Health · 23 hours ago
Lead Technical Architect
Erie-Meadville Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$92K/yr - $172K/yr
7+ years expHighmark Health is seeking an experienced Lead Technical Architect to join their AI Platforms and Services team, guiding the system design and solution architecture for enterprise AI initiatives. This role involves translating business needs into robust technical solutions, leading the design of scalable systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the development of AI-enabled solutions.
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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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or closely related field
7 years in an IT discipline
7 years in a Business discipline
Preferred
Master's Degree
8+ years of experience in software development, solution architecture, or enterprise systems design
2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Strong programming skills in Python, with experience building scalable, production-grade systems
Proven experience leading end-to-end system design and solution architecture for scalable and secure enterprise-grade platforms
Expertise in designing and implementing robust enterprise integrations using APIs, messaging systems, and data pipelines
Experience in the development or integration of AI-enabled solutions that support strategic platforms and service initiatives
Demonstrated ability to partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., Business, Data Science, Engineering, Product) to define and execute strategic technical direction
Experience leading proof-of-concept (POC) efforts to validate the feasibility and business value of new technical solutions
Proficiency in creating and maintaining comprehensive architecture documentation, including diagrams, specifications, and implementation guidelines
Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including formal bodies like an Architecture Review Board
Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards in a healthcare environment, such as HIPAA
Experience providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering and project teams
Familiarity or experience with DevOps, MLOps, Containerization and IaC, with a focus on automating and streamlining the AI development and deployment lifecycle
Industry certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management
Company
Highmark Health
Highmark Health is an integrated health care delivery and financing network.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$6.75MKey Investors
Henry L. Hillman FoundationRichard King Mellon Foundation
2025-06-11Grant· $1.75M
2021-05-10Grant· $5M
Leadership Team
David Holmberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Karen Hanlon
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
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