Enterprise Solutions Architecture SOA Lead Architect

L.A. Care Health Plan is a community-accountable health plan serving Los Angeles County residents through a variety of health coverage programs including L.A. Care Covered™, Medi-Cal, L.A. Care Cal MediConnect Plan and PASC-SEIU Homecare Workers Health Care Plan.

Responsible for leading a team of developers and architects to design build LA Care's SOA architecture L.A. Care's systems have largely grown up from a small-shop perspective to an environment requiring high availability, accessibility, ease of use, technological sophistication, reliability in handling large data volumes, and large user base. Important integration between and among technology layers is vital to maintaining accurate , timely and robust service delivery to our members and providers. Working closely with the business, application and IT infrastructure teams, the SOA Lead Architect will analyze business and technical problems and develop the appropriate SOA framework to incorporate Master Data, event driven and batch processing entities to the master service bus.

**Education:** * Required: Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Business Adm. or related field * Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business Adm. or related field **EXPERIENCE:** * 10 years of experience in design and implementation of Java JSP applications, .Net applications, and ORACLE/PL/SQL and SQL Server Batch processes with at least: * 7 years of experience as a SOA architect working for a minimum of 3 companies. * 3 years of experience as an architect working in a matriced organization. * Strong experience of managing advanced technical resources. * Strong experience implementing MDM in a SOA architecture. * Strong hands on experience with ORACLE SOA suite (BPEL/SOA/BAM) packaged solutions. * Experience in multiple database platforms, including NoSQL, SQL Server and Oracle. * Experience working with end users to gather requirements and build technical solutions from concept to implementation. * Ability to facilitate meetings and delegate responsibilities. * Previous healthcare experience is preferred. * Strong problem-solving and analytical ability. * Excellent communicator and relationship builder, with the ability to discuss and understand HealthCare business partners across all operations. * Must be well organized, flexible, motivated and enjoy the challenges of supporting a complex, changing environment, with attention to detail, at times under pressure, remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful and efficient. * Build relationships throughout business units, our customers, and their teams to ensure that the services provided are of exceptional quality.