Remote Senior Software Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Christian Care Ministry as a Senior Software Solutions Architect (SSA) to lead technology solution design efforts within one of our domain pillars, following the CCM SDLC process. As SSA, you will act as the bridge between non-IT stakeholders and software development staff, crafting technology and feature roadmaps, delivering requirement specifications, and working directly with the software delivery team to ensure quality development and release of features.

Requirements

• Prior industry experience in designing and building solutions for banking, billing, or payments processing required
• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years experience in software solution design and implementation of complex IT projects OR 15+ years experience in software solution design and implementation of complex IT projects required
• 7+ years of progressively increasing leadership responsibility in a directly related area during which both professional and management capability have been clearly demonstrated required
• Experience with domain-driven software architecture, system integration, software development, and data modeling required
• Master’s degree is a plus – either in technology or business (MBA)
• Agile software development experience (certified Product Owner preferred )
• Experience in a healthcare-related field preferred
• Experience as a Solution Architect in the health plan industry preferred

Responsibilities

• Craft value stream software feature roadmaps, prioritizing stakeholder feature delivery alongside architectural improvements
• Translate requirements into end user / stakeholder-readable Functional Design documents
• Act as technical design liaison with PMO, Client, Vendor Partners, and other technology teams (take the specifications from the customers to the engineers, because you’re a people person)
• Properly scope, design, and size business feature delivery efforts
• Provide direction and guidance on solution architecture to the IT Delivery teams through functional design specifications and feature specifications
• Make technical trade-offs to balance competing concerns (such as usability, scalability, data integrity, performance, etc.)
• Serve as Product Owner for Agile Software Delivery teams
• Participate in Design and Sprint sessions following Scrum methodology
• Manage time effectively, communicating project status accurately to Project Managers
• Design with guidance from the Enterprise/Systems Architects, adhering to architecture principles, modeling and design standards, reference architectures, and design patterns
• Work with the manager of Design and Architecture to design value stream roadmaps to best align with business strategy
• Mentor Software Developers, and User Experience designers in requirements elicitation, functional design, and decomposition
• Demonstrate leadership by taking initiative in team building, influencing, conflict management, and problem-resolution to facilitate success
• Support vendor evaluations - provide recommendations and assessment scoring
• Navigate across the IT organization (networking, security, interfaces, etc.) to identify non-functional solution requirements that would not be clear to the business
• Drive the sourcing of new solutions to help generate improvements to processes
• Perform all job functions consistent with CCM policies and procedures, including those which govern handling PHI and PII
• Contribute to the exercise and expression of the Ministry’s Christian beliefs

Benefits

• 100% paid Medical for employees/99% for family
• Generous employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions
• Employer-paid Life Insurance (3x salary) and Long-term Disability Insurance
• 6 weeks of paid parental leave (for both mom and dad)
• Dental - two plans to choose from
• Vision
• Short-term Disability
• Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
• 401(k) – up to 4% match on ROTH or Traditional contributions
• Generous paid-time off and 11 paid holidays
• Wellness plan including Financial, Occupational, Mental/Spiritual, and Physical health incentives up to $50/mo
• Employee Assistance Program including no cost, in-person mental health visits and employee discounts
• Monetary Anniversary Awards Program
• Monetary Birthday Awards