Solutions Architect

DescriptionWho We Are

WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal

government contractor headquartered in Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance

plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group health plans for

small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer support for

beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of

active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. WPS

Health Solutions has been making health care easier for the people we serve

for more than 75 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.

Culture Drives Our Success

WPS' Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are

seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an inclusive

and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of Diversity,

Equity, and Inclusion as an investment in our workforce-both current and

future-to effectively seek, leverage, and include diverse perspectives

that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. This results in

people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization

that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities.

We are proud of the recognition we have received from local and national

organization regarding our culture and workplace: WPS Newsroom - Awards and

Recognition

Role Snapshot

Our Solutions Architect will help define and coordinate architecture decisions

and direction of legacy and modernization efforts at WPS within our Government

Health Administration (GHA) line of business focused on the Medicare

Program. Will be accountable for driving, producing, and reviewing

architecture artifacts that include current/future state business and

technology multi layered software architectures. This Solutions Architect

will also create and maintain reference architecture and patterns that will be

used to guide projects. We are also looking for this role to help drive new

and future innovations within a complex environment, where some tools and

process reside on premises at WPS while others must integrate within US

Government owned platforms and AWS instances. To be successful, this

Architect will be a thought leader and influencer, excited to provide the

needed technology vision to enable business strategy success.

Understand business application portfolios, processes, and priorities,

and use this information to design complex enterprise systems architectures

and solutions.

Apply technical knowledge and business insights to create and maintain

architecture roadmaps and assist in breaking down items for tactical

execution.

Maintain technical trends, skills, and knowledge of technology

capabilities; share these with the internal technical community.

Create and maintain architectural information that are used to accomplish a

business-aligned IT strategy.

Coordinate Proof-of-Concept implementations to infuse key new technologies as

appropriate.

Develop and maintain various system of records in use within the Medicare team

along with key functions served to business through these systems.

In partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,

(CMS), lead the WPS Medicare participation within the CMS modernization

work effort.

Collaborate with Medicare business teams to learn how the business uses

technology to perform functions and bring that knowledge to CMS modernization

streams.

Help WPS and CMS prioritize integrations and projects that ultimately reduce

reliance on CMS shared systems screen scrapping, maintenance for these

integrations and allow scalability to leverage APIs throughout WPS functions.

Participate in CMS cloud sessions, provide WPS recommendations on how to

approach cloud strategy that leads to WPS Medicare business growth keeping CMS

roadmap in mind.

Collaborate with Medicare security lead in future solutions architecting and

roadmap for WPS GHA

Develo technical strategy documentation to support exciting impactful

initiatives with coordination of IT, Business, and Architecture teams.

Laison with Shared Services counterparts to ensure a common understanding of

organizational frameworks.

How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:

Are an individual who has an entrepreneurial spirit and is not afraid of

trying new things.

Have a passion for information management practices, system development life

cycle management, infrastructure and operations, digital transformation,

and architecture frameworks.

Are interested in working with both on-prem and cloud-based solutions.

Collaborate well with Data, Solutions, Technology, Cloud, and

Applications Architects and App Dev teams.

Enjoy the responsibility of influencing IT and business decision makers.

Are adaptable and have a consultant mindset to ensure technology products and

services are architected according to business needs.

Enjoy modernizing processes via your influence by being a catalyst for change.

What will I gain from this role?

Working in a change-oriented environment with very talented leaders from

across the entire organization.

Working in an environment that serves our Nation's military, Veterans,

Guard and Reserves along with their families.

Experience working in an environment that serves our Nation's military,

veterans, Guard and Reserves and Medicare beneficiaries.

Working in a continuous performance feedback environment.

Minimum Qualifications

Lived in the United States the past 3 of 5 years and be able to pass required

background checks.

Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent post high school and/or

related work experience.

2 or more years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

5 or more years of related work experience within the technical domains.

Deep experience in the design and build-out of technology solutions.

Cloud certifications (AWS preferred).