Senior Technical Software Architect

Pay Range:
$102,300.00 - $163,700.00
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At BCBSRI, our greatest resource is our people.

We come from varying backgrounds, different cultures, and unique experiences. We are hard-working, caring, and creative individuals who collaborate, support one another, and grow together. Passion, empathy, and understanding are at the forefront of everything we do—not just for our members, but for our employees as well.

We recognize that to do your best work, you have to be your best self.
It’s why we offer flexible work arrangements that include remote and hybrid opportunities and paid time off. We provide tuition reimbursement and assist with student-loan repayment. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance as well as programs that support your mental health and well-being. We pay competitively, offer bonuses and investment plans, and are committed to growing and developing our employees.

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We strive to be transparent and accountable. We believe in equipping our associates with the knowledge and resources they need to be successful. No matter where you’re at in the organization, you’re an integral part of our team and your input, thoughts, and ideas are valued.

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Our focus extends beyond providing access to high-quality, affordable, and equitable care. To further improve the health and well-being of our fellow Rhode Islanders, we regularly roll up our sleeves and get to work (literally) in communities all across the state—building homes, working in food pantries, revitalizing community centers, and transforming outdoor spaces for children and adults. Because we believe it is our collective responsibility to uplift our fellow Rhode Islanders when and where we can, our associates receive additional paid time to volunteer.
Why this job matters:

Responsible for leading solution design and associated documentation. Drives technical solution design initiatives, while maintaining strong credibility with cross-functional partners, particularly engineering and enterprise architecture. Ensures solutions align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational standards, guides junior architects, and contributes across all phases of system design by upholding architectural principles, fostering innovation, and supporting both business and technical needs throughout the project lifecycle.
What you will do:

- Own solution technical designs for medium-to-high complexity features.

- Produce and maintain architecture artifacts (HLDs, current v target state, context diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.)

- Evaluate design trade-offs (latency vs. throughput, synchronous vs. async calls).

- Drive reference implementations and proof-of-concepts (POCs).

- Govern design reviews; capture and track technical risks, assumptions, and decisions.

- Identify and validate non-functional requirements (NFR).

- Create and enforce enterprise standards (identity, logging, API standards, cloud patterns).

- Drive projects with evolving technical artifacts to continuously maintain the current-state ecosystem with EA oversight.

- Curate an internal knowledge base of capabilities, systems, processes, interdependencies, and underlying design via the EA tool.

- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

- Evolve architecture principles, standards, best practices, and enforce through Architecture Review Board and projects.

- Lead HLD and other solution/technical artifact template maintenance.

- Ensure alignment between enterprise, solution, and technical archite