Product Innovation Enterprise Architect - Remote

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Job Description

The Product Innovation Enterprise Architect is a technical leader who bridges the gap between business strategy, technology, and product development, driving innovation and ensuring product solutions and architecture supports the company’s product vision.

This role is responsible for initiating and leading product solutions that enhance our core product offerings, improve customer experience, create a competitive edge and mitigate risks. The focus of this role will be on the new product development life cycle and product solutions that differentiate Prime’s product lines.

The Product Innovation Enterprise Architect leads the analysis and design tasks to support the development of product solutions across multiple business capabilities ensuring the resulting architecture improves Prime’s core products and at the same time algins with architecture standards.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Innovation at the start and within the full product development lifecycle (Ideate, Validate, Design & Solve, Develop & implement, Sell, launch & warranty) to enable innovations and technology adoption that enhances core product offerings, ensuring competitiveness, scalability, and sustainability
• Guide the Product Innovation organization to identify and adopt emerging technologies to improve product capabilities and customer experiences
• Contribute to creating a competitive edge by integrating innovative products, technologies, and architecture designs into Prime’s value streams and supporting capabilities
• Directly support the Validate and Design & Solve phases of product development process by assessing vendors, evaluating solution options, identifying and sizing impacts and defining solutions to support the product business case
• Drive efficient architecture and technology choices to reduce development, operational, and product maintenance costs
• Enhance customer experience by bringing a customer-focused approach to understanding and elaborating problems, products, and solutions
• Effectively communicate the benefits and potential risks of new solutions, technologies, and architectural changes to stakeholders
• Collaborate with business and technology leaders, product managers, product owners, architects, engineers and other stakeholders to ensure product solution alignment and a holistic approach to product innovation
• Contribute to creating a shared product and solution vision, fostering collaboration and alignment across teams
• Research, drive, and lead adoption of emerging technology trends, disruptions, and practices relevant to Product innovation and core product offerings
• Advocate for testing new products and technologies on a smaller scale to manage risk before broader capability integration
• Ensure that product solution and technology choices align with Prime’s overall business goals, enterprise, and product roadmap
• Develop, maintain, and evolve the product architecture and solution contexts (current state, transition state, and future state) in support of the product roadmap
• Identify and drive capability and new product development process improvements and identify enablement investments to improve our ability to adopt and scale new products
• Lead the analysis of the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt impacting products, and recommend solutions for improvement
• 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 solution architecture practices for the assigned area
• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• 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

Additional Qualifications

• 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
• Significant experience defining and standardizing design and architecture patterns Product Innovation and development
• 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 solution types, ranging from organization and process to implementing and integrating third party solutions, new system builds, legacy enhancements, and Cloud solutions
• Experience as a senior level architect working on significant enterprise initiatives
• Previous experience working with enterprise architecture tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with New Product Development (NPD) approaches and processes
• Practitioner knowledge of enterprise and business architecture development
• Experience working with regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA and/or PCI)
• Previous experience in Pharmacy Benefit Administration, Pharmacy Benefit Management, or health care industry
• Previous experience working in Agile/Product Delivery and scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS)
• Strong experience with software development life cycle and project management principles
• In-depth knowledge of two or more architectural domains (application, infrastructure, integration, and/or security)
• Formal Enterprise Architecture training and certification
• Experience modeling Enterprise Architectures with industry standard modeling notation

Physical Demands

• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
• Constantly required to sit, use hands to handle or feel, talk and hear
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to stand, walk and stoop, kneel, and crouch
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their job, and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We encourage diverse candidates to apply, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected class under federal, state, or local law.   

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives including qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and any qualified applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is a Tobacco-Free Workplace employer.

Positions will be posted for a minimum of five consecutive workdays.