Overview

At CCMSI, we look for the best and brightest talent to join our team of professionals. As a leading Third Party Administrator in self-insurance services, we are united by a common purpose of delivering exceptional service to our clients. As an Employee-Owned Company, we focus on developing our staff through structured career development programs, rewarding and recognizing individual and team efforts. Certified as a Great Place To Work, our employee satisfaction and retention ranks in the 95th percentile.

Reasons you should consider a career with CCMSI:

• Culture: Our Core Values are embedded into our culture of how we treat our employees as a valued partner-with integrity, passion and enthusiasm.
• Career development: CCMSI offers robust internships and internal training programs for advancement within our organization.
• Benefits: Not only do our benefits include 4 weeks paid time off in your first year, plus 10 paid holidays, but they also include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Critical Illness, Short and Long Term Disability, 401K, and ESOP.
• Work Environment: We believe in providing an environment where employees enjoy coming to work every day, are provided the resources needed to perform their job and claims staff are assigned manageable caseloads.

The Enterprise Architect position is responsible for translating CCMSI’s business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating, and refining key insights (requirements, principles, models) that describe CCMSI’s future state and enable evolution and transformation. The goals of the Enterprise Architect are to improve organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and agility by delivering business-aligned future states, roadmaps, and products necessary to achieve that vision for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Informs and advises executives and their staff on strategic and operational opportunities for improvement and develops effective roadmaps that illustrate feasible approaches to execute strategies.
• Ensures that architecturally relevant issues are aired, that CCMSI clients, business partners, vendors, and staff are considered, and that decisions are made and documented among business and IT stakeholders.
• Creates and collects architectural descriptions and documents for the elements of enterprise strategy, architecture, operations, systems, and information systems.
• Provides architectural insight for enterprise and IT-level strategy formation.
• Provides a clear vision for strategic requirements that span CCMSI’s enterprise, providing models of future states, with roadmaps that steer the implementation of change initiatives.
• Evaluates technologies and sets the technical strategy for the organization
• Document, communicate and teach the developers how to work in our environment from idea generation to production deployment.
• Assists developers with the installation of necessary tools and technical services with configurations and settings for all services.
• Continuously looks for opportunities to develop process improvements to increase quality and production.
• Provides leadership by identifying and highlighting the talents of staff, promoting an environment where knowledge is shared, challenging underperforming employees, cultivating diversity, maintaining open communication to enhance problem-solving, promoting good work attitudes and ethics, taking risks to achieve organizational success, and demonstrating an appreciation for the urgency and commitment to achieving goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Excellent oral and written communication skills. Individual must have the ability to coordinate and prioritize. Must be able to participate in a team environment in a rapid changing environment. Flexibility, initiative and ability to work with minimal direct supervision required. Must be able to operate office equipment. Individual must be detail oriented and a self-starter with strong organizational abilities. Discretion and confidentiality a must.

Reliable, predictable attendance within client service hours for the performance of this position.

Responsive to internal and external client needs.

Ability to clearly communicate verbally and/or in writing both internally and externally.

Education and/or Experience

Graduate Degree with a minimum of ten (10) years of supervisory or project supervision experience.

Emphasis on Client Service functions is helpful. Proven leadership experience to develop and effectively execute high-level enterprise architectural plans.

Technical Qualifications

Direct experience with a range of services from the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform including Infrastructure and Security related services such as Azure AD, IaaS, Containers, Storage, Networking, and Azure Security.

• Experience in setting up, deploying, and managing multiple environments to support agile development approaches in Hybrid Azure environments.
• Deep understanding of coding best practices and modern architectural patterns, including microservices and message-driven architectures
• Recent hands-on experience with DevOps toolsets
• It is essential that you have strong, in-depth, and demonstrable hands-on experience with the following technologies:
  • Microsoft Azure and related build, deployment, automation, networking, and security technologies in cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Microsoft Azure Platform As A Service (PaaS) products such as Azure SQL, AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions, and other Serverless services
  • Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such as Azure AD or AD B2C
  • Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics
  • Knowledge of deployment automation.
  • Experienced in the design and delivery of enterprise level Highly Available solutions
• 6 or more years of SQL and general relational database (RDBMS) knowledge.

• Experience with modern system design both responsive and adaptive development, Jira, Confluence, Data Structures for Data Analytics, Data Lakes, and Data Cubes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Professional designations or certifications preferred.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Object Handling Categories

Work requires the ability to lift/carry objects routinely as follows:

Light Lifting: No lifting of objects weighing more than 15 pounds on a regular basis.

Other Physical Demands

Work requires the ability to stoop, bend, reach and grab with arms and hands, manual dexterity.

Work requires the ability to sit or stand up to 7.5 or more hours at a time.

Work requires sufficient auditory and visual acuity to interact with others.

CORE VALUES & PRINCIPLES

Responsible for upholding the CCMSI Core Values & Principles which include: performing with integrity; passionately focus on client service; embracing a client-centered vision; maintaining contagious enthusiasm for our clients; searching for the best ideas; looking upon change as an opportunity; insisting upon excellence; creating an atmosphere of excitement, informality and trust; focusing on the situation, issue, or behavior, not the person; maintaining the self-confidence and self-esteem of others; maintaining constructive relationships; taking the initiative to make things better; and leading by example.

CCMSI is an Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity employer offering an excellent benefit package including Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug, Vision, Flexible Spending, Life, ESOP and 401K.