Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Highmark Health is seeking a Platform Engineer to support enterprise cloud platforms and application services. The role designs, implements, administers, and supports secure, scalable solutions involving cloud operations, automation, security, databases, integrations, and enterprise architecture.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitate development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development
- Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Reviews others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. Uses appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly
- Selects and uses tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate. Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement
- Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems/
- Communicates effectively will all levels of organization
- Manages expectations of customers, partners and management
- Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk-throughs; and problem resolution and decision making
- Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of complex requirements for peers and other staff
- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area:
- Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: Preparing presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise: Presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction
- Other duties as assigned or requested
Skills
- ***CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)***
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or closely related field
- 3 years of experience in an IT discipline
- An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting
- IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing
- COBAL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS
- Java/JavaScript Framework
- PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML
- Waterfall
- Agile
- Java Developer
- DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise
- Architect(SCEA), Project Management
- 0% - 25%
- Office-based
- Teaches / trains others regularly Occasionally
- Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Occasionally
- Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees) Never
- Physical work site required Yes
- Master's degree
- Experience administering and supporting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services
- Experience supporting Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle APEX, Oracle ERP Cloud, and related Oracle platform technologies
- Experience administering and supporting Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) and Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) environments
- Experience with Oracle database administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and database lifecycle management
- Experience implementing and supporting cloud security controls, identity and access management, secrets management, and security compliance within Oracle Cloud environments
- Experience developing integrations, APIs, and automation solutions using cloud-native and middleware technologies
- Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code, scripting, and DevOps practices to automate platform deployment and administration
- Experience troubleshooting complex platform, middleware, database, and integration issues in enterprise environments
- Experience working in Agile and DevOps delivery models
- OCI certifications
- Cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP)
- DevOps or platform engineering certifications
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