Job Details: Director of Architecture
| Job Title: | Director of Architecture |
| Job ID: | IRC4118 |
| Company: | The TriZetto Group |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | DOE |
| Date Posted: | Mar-27-08 |
Are you looking for a winning company with a culture of empowerment? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference in a fast-paced environment? TriZetto is the largest company dedicated to providing information technology for the health insurance payer industry. We're an innovative industry leader, helping our customers respond to fast-moving trends and dynamics such as consumer-directed healthcare and the growing Medicare and Medicaid markets. Touching more than 35% of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto provides a broad array of premier information technology solutions that enhance our customers' revenue growth, drive their administrative efficiency, and improve the cost and quality of care for their members.
We recognize that our employees are our greatest assets and want each one to have a long, successful career at TriZetto. Therefore, we offer a variety of training programs and career development opportunities, and believe in a healthy work-life balance. TriZetto offers paid vacation, sick, and holiday time. Additional company benefits include medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, and a 401(k) plan. We are an equal opportunity employer.
Seeking an Information Technology Director in our Hosting R&D/Architecture department to maintain and enhance the current-state hosting architecture as well as design the future-state hosting architecture and migration plan. This leadership role requires an individual who has in-depth experience in development lifecycle practices to promote the structured enhancement of enterprise application delivery and technical operations. The following technology architecture domains are in scope: Distributed Computing, Enterprise Application Delivery, Enterprise Infrastructure, Integration and Automation, Performance Management and Efficiency, and Information Management. Strong presentation skills are required to promote and evangelize hosting architecture to Sr. management, customers and prospects. This practice will also include network, voice, security, messaging, server platforms, storage, desktop, and systems management.
The director must be strong in both technology and business disciplines. It requires a pragmatic strategist who is able to define enterprise hosting application, infrastructure, and platform designs, as well as standards, focused on promoting enhanced customer value, process automation and systems configuration. The goal is to cost-effectively leverage technology to increase efficiency, quality and scalability within the hosting center to support enhanced business advantage.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for directing a team of enterprise architects in the maintenance of current-state architecture, development of future-state architecture, and the application of hosting architecture to customer specific requirements.
- Responsible for developing the next generation hosted platform as the technology foundation of our hosted offers.
- Responsible for evaluating tools and making recommendations on implementation strategies to leverage incremental value over time to promote the continuous advancement of the hosting practice.
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the current-state hosting architecture to support implementations, upgrades, enterprise infrastructure and production technical operations.
- Responsible for defining the standard enterprise technology architecture process, and for setting the associated policies, standards, guidelines and governance within the hosting center.
- Responsible for delivering large-scale, multi-technology projects that meet quality, time and budget requirements.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, clear and measurable goals and objectives and employee engagement strategies for employees in your group.
- Prepare investment decisions based on detailed consideration of business cases, changes to existing processes and IT skill sets.
- Promote and enable technology sharing and reuse. Define processes and techniques to facilitate reuse of key technology services.
- Define hardened technology delivery patterns and processes that accelerate deployment of new applications.
- Work with application teams to plan for changes to the technology architecture based on mutually defined requirements.
Requirements:
- Bachelors & 12+ years of related exp with a large service provider; healthcare exp desired
- Strong knowledge of enterprise scale distributed systems including: high volume OLTP systems, high capacity batch systems, consumer based web systems and integrated service oriented systems.
- Track record of IT architecture leadership from design to implementation across domain areas with proven success with implementations of major projects
- Experience in application architecture combined with infrastructure architecture
- Ability to formulate vision and translate into tech solutions with strong documentation
- Ability to engage senior mgmt, clients, and tech execs
- Able to mentor team members, build and lead teams
- Track record of delivering large-scale, multi-tech projects
- Excellent understanding of current IT trends and their impact
- Excellent communication and customer service skills
- Results and execution focused, self-motivated
Apply online at http://www.cytiva.com/tzg/applyTzg.asp?tzg?tzgIRC4118?acook?5
We are an equal opportunity employer.
| Location: [rss] | US-CO-Greenwood Village |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Amy Cook |
| Contact Phone: | |
| Contact Email: | amy.cook@trizetto.com |
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