Integration Architect (IIB, APIC)

Position: Integration Architect (IIB, APIC)

Location: Remote

Duration: Long term

Prefer someone with prior healthcare experience

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in IT architecture beyond lead design duties with thorough understanding of application architectural componentization
• Must demonstrate a deep knowledge of architecture principles and describe the employment of those on several projects
• Clear and complete understanding of the difference and delineation between architecture and high-level design is required
• Architecture experience required should be heavily based in System Integration.
• Experience in integration modernization including application of agile integration methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of leading-edge integration technologies that drive business innovation design such as mobile, service-oriented architecture and APIs, event-driven service architectures, as well as big data transfers.
• Demonstrated architecture experience with Service Interface Design utilizing Service or Data Bus technology with a focus on performance is required.
• Experience with Service and API management applications such as IBM IIB, MuleSoft, CA Layer7, IBM APIC, ND / or IBM WSRR is required.
• Strong knowledge of messaging middleware including event streaming such as Message Queuing, Event Streams (Apache Kafka).
• Experience with managed file transfers technologies.
• Strong Unified Modeling Language (UML) experience is essential
• Understanding of rules engines such as IBM Operational Decision Management (ODM) and Business Process Management (BPM) applications and tools is preferred
• Proven project experience and ability to lead a group through an architectural development process and collaborate with application development teams, architects, Business and other project constituents
• Ability to discover and define technical requirements and their relationship to functional requirements and to determine the adequacy of documented requirements for architecture definition
• Strong business and technology decision making skills are required
• Experience in a technical leadership role
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and strong leadership skills to effectively influence decisions and positively impact progress are required
• Experience with Agile Methodology including Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is desired

Healthcare/Insurance Industry Specific Skillset

• Experience in crafting domain models for each line of business like offering, member, provider, claims, clinical etc.
• Experience in message modeling in-line with business models for API integration.
• Experience in API modeling with health insurance defined processes like HIPAA etc.