Application Architect
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Job ID: ZB-1034010 Description:

As the health care industry continues to rapidly transform, our IT team conceives, develops and delivers impactful technology solutions to support access to quality, affordable health care for our members. We are driven by our collective company purpose: To do everything in our power to stand with our members in sickness and in health®. Our IT team unleashes the power of this purpose through technology. We come to work every day to make a difference, and we deliver the highest quality and best solutions to our members.

Job Purpose:

This position is responsible for ensuring alignment of project specific designs with application architecture roadmap; supporting project and/or product teams on functional and technical design activities; defining the interaction between application packages, databases, and middleware systems to optimize product functional coverage; acting as subject matter expert (SME) for products that require integration into the application.

This Mainframe Application Architect is responsible for designing solutions and solving complex technical problems for HCSC's Financial Operations Mainframe systems. A qualified candidate will have extensive experience in translating customer requirements into logical, physical and detail design specifications for mainframe developers. The candidate must be able to multi-task and be able to quickly become the subject matter expert for several large mainframe applications.

Required Job Qualifications:

* Bachelor Degree and 4 years Information Technology experience OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 6 years Information Technology experience OR 8 years Information Technology experience.
* 6 years of experience in mainframe application design and development (Cobol, JCL, DB2)
* 6 years of experience leading mainframe development projects across multiple platforms
* Problem solving/analytical thinking.
* Teamwork and collaboration.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

* Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
* Product-specific application architecture.
* Ability to tie together solutions across systems.
* Experience in application and/or product feature design.
* Experience in application configuration
* Experience in iterative and/or agile and/or scrum development.
* Experience in solution architecture.
* Application domain knowledge.
* Prototyping.
* Experience across multiple HCSC internal financial applications like Claims Payment System, BlueGateway, Financial Payment Database, Income, IRS-1099 and Unclaimed Property etc. would be preferred.
* CA

HCSC is committed to diversity in the workplace and to providing equal opportunity and affirmative action to employees and applicants. We are an Equal Opportunity Employment / Affirmative Action employer dedicated to workforce diversity and a drug-free and smoke-free workplace. Drug screening and background investigation are required, as allowed by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Requirements: Expertise Information Technology Job Type Full-Time Regular Location IL - Chicago