Senior Solutions Architect - Health Insurance Large Group - REMOTE

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect - Health Insurance Large Group to join our national Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Candidates can be based anywhere within the continental US, Midwest and East Coast locations preferred, some travel is required.

Job Overview:

A Health Insurance Senior Solutions Architect is expected to have deep experience and knowledge across business processes and technologies supporting the lifecycle of Large Group sales and benefit administration functions, often referred to as “Quote to Card. This includes all aspects of the sales processes, product configuration and quoting,  document generation, contracting, implementation, hand-off and renewals.   The Senior Solutions Architect may or may not have a programming background, but will have expert infrastructure architecture, client presales / presentation, team management and thought leadership skills. 

In particular, the Senior Solutions Architect will have substantial experience in translating business needs from the Large Group sales team into specific, addressable business process and technology requirements, providing relevant strategic guidance in the assessment and prioritization of those requirements, and executing against technology programs to deliver those requirements into operational status.

You will provide best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will assist in defining scope and sizing of work; and anchor Proof of Concept developments. You will provide solution architecture for the business problem, platform integration with third party services, designing and developing complex features for clients' business needs. You will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high-quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs.

You will also contribute in a variety of roles in thought leadership, mentorship, systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation. You will challenge your leading edge solutions, consultative and business skills through the diversity of work in multiple industry domains. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Senior Leadership team and may mentor junior architects and other delivery team members.

Perficient is a trusted partner to top healthcare and life sciences organizations, delivering transformative solutions that enhance care, accelerate innovation, and improve digital experiences. With 20+ years of expertise in business transformation, modernization, data, and consumer engagement, we help the industry's biggest names boost efficiency and drive meaningful outcomes. We also leverage AI to improve clinical decision-making, streamline operations, personalize patient engagement, and unlock insights that advance research and care delivery.  

• Own and orchestrate the process of determining business needs from the Large Group sales teams of our clients, identifying how and where those business needs are best met with the technology options available (including Salesforce), and guiding the team in translating requirements into the technology implementation plan.
• Guide and collaborate with a Business Process Engineer to document current and future state opportunities.
• Have the experience to act as a thought leader and source of innovation and creativity for the development team in key domains of large group sales and benefit administration where technology has the potential to drive substantial new value – e.g.
  • reporting, analytics & visualization
  • self-service tools and capabilities
  • cross-system integration approaches and best practices
  • applications of AI/ Automation to support specific uses case in the above areas (e.g. predictive approaches to lead scoring, cross selling etc.)
• Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
• Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.
• Project and solution estimation and team structure definition
• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.
• Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.
• Liaise with offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks.
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