• Topeka, Kansas
  • Remote
    4 days ago

    Job Description

    Are you ready to make a difference? Choose to work for one of the most trusted companies in Kansas.

    Why Join Us?

    • Make a Positive Impact: Your work will directly contribute to the health and well-being of Kansans.
    • FamilyComes First: Total rewards package that promotes the idea of family first for all employees. Paid vacation and sick leave with paid maternity and paternity available immediately upon hire
    • Professional Growth Opportunities: Advance your career with ongoing training and development programs.
    • Dynamic Work Environment: Collaborate with a team of passionate and driven individuals in a work environment that promotes flexibility.
    • Trust and Stability: Work for one of the most trusted companies in Kansas with over 80 years of commitment, compassion and community.
    • Inclusive Work Environment: We pride ourselves on fostering a workplace where everyone is valued and respected.

    Benefits & Perks

    • Base compensation is only one component of your competitive Total Rewards package
    • Incentive pay program (EPIP)
    • Health/Vision/Dental insurance
    • 6 weeks paid parental leave for new mothers and fathers
    • Fertility/Adoption assistance
    • 2 weeks paid caregiver leave
    • 401(k) plan matching up to 5%
    • Tuition reimbursement
    • Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources

    Job Summary

    The Enterprise Architect is a senior-level role responsible for defining, governing, and evolving enterprise-wide technology architecture to enable business strategy, reduce complexity, and improve security, resilience, and delivery speed. This role partners with business and IT leaders to define target-state architectures and roadmaps across application, data, integration, security, and cloud domains-ensuring solutions integrate cleanly into BCBSKS's enterprise technical and data environments and align with a Cloud-first approach and digital transformation priorities.

    "This position is eligible to work remote, hybrid or onsite in accordance with our Telecommuting Policy."

    What you'll do

    • Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, and standards across application, data, integration, security, and cloud domains.
    • Develop target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business capabilities, risk posture, and investment priorities.
    • Lead architecture governance (reviews, exceptions, and decision records) ensuring solutions are compliant, secure-by-design, and operationally ready.
    • Provide end-to-end solution architecture for initiatives, including application design, integration patterns, data flows, identity, and security controls.
    • Guide application modernization and platform adoption (e.g., API-first, event-driven, containerization) with clear tradeoffs and migration paths.
    • Shape cloud architecture guardrails (landing zones, networking, identity, logging/monitoring, cost governance) consistent with an Azure-first approach.
    • Define data architecture direction (data domains, master/reference data, metadata, quality, privacy classification) to enable analytics and AI use cases.
    • Partner with Information Security and Compliance to incorporate threat modeling, least privilege, encryption/key management, and regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA).
    • Evaluate technologies and vendors; recommend adoption, consolidation, or retirement based on enterprise fit, risk, and total cost of ownership.
    • Mentor architects and engineering teams; promote engineering best practices (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, testing, observability) and continuous reduction of technical debt.

    What you need

    Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

    • Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture across application, data, security, integration, and cloud domains, ensuring consistency across portfolios and products.
    • Strong architecture communication skills (diagrams, models, decision records) and the ability to explain tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.
    • Experience developing target-state architectures and roadmaps, aligning technology direction to business capabilities and measurable outcomes.
    • Broad cloud architecture proficiency (Azure preferred) including networking, identi

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationTopeka, Kansas (
    Remote
    )

    Skills

    • Application Integrationunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Cloud Architectureunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Communications Architectureunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
    • Continuous Integrationunmatched
    • Cryptographyunmatched
    • Dental Insuranceunmatched
    • Enterprise Architectureunmatched
    • Fitnessunmatched
    • HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)unmatched
    • Incentive Programsunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Metadataunmatched
    • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
    • Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Software Designunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Threat Modelingunmatched
    • Total Cost of Ownershipunmatched
    • Training Programunmatched
    • Training/Teachingunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched
    • Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
    • Vision Planunmatched

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