Principal Solutions Architect

by Ronald Barron | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: CVS Health

Job Description:

CVS Health’s mandate is to transform health and wellness via products that enable consumer engagement and best-in-class experience. This team is responsible for CVS Health s digital transformation and all digital products; as well as the development and execution of the digital roadmap. A key part of the responsibility is to build an integrated platform that enables the delivery of products to drive engagement and revolutionize health and wellness. We want you to be a part of the team that will build this next generation platform.
Leveraging your expertise in key technologies & initiatives, you will join a architecture team that is building cloud platform that will transform the healthcare industry and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people. CVS Health Digital is a highly energetic, highly collaborative team that operates as a startup within the CVS Health Enterprise. We want you to bring your talent and expertise to drive the change that is desperately needed within the healthcare industry.

Come Join CVS Health Digital!

CVS Health is looking for a Principal Solution Architect who will be responsible for driving broad solution initiatives across multiple Digital applications in pursuit of a unified customer facing experience. In this role, you will be a part of a large-scale architecture, product and engineering environment, leading technical architecture initiatives for one or more Agile Solution Trains, helping to ensure successful product deliveries. This role requires EXCELLENT coalition building skills, broad technical knowledge, great communication skills, and strategic thinking.

Is this you?

• Proven leader with the demonstrated ability to create technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints.
• Strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including business, product, and UX team members to influence the application data-flow design and extensible product platform architecture.
• Takes a disciplined approach to software development and problem solving; excels at breaking down large problems into multi-step plans in an Agile development environment.
• Collaborates with multiple Agile value stream execution teams in driving large solutions across multiple planning/execution cycles.
• Experienced with various types of software architectures including Micro Frontend/Microservice architecture.
• Possesses broad technology knowledge (cloud, enterprise applications, microservices, data analytics, networking, data storage systems, APIs, large-scale systems).
• Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII and PHI.
• Experienced leader who brings a strategic mindset and who is capable of building realistic strategic roadmaps.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching and coalition-building skills.
• Excels at building relationships and has top-notch communication and evangelism skills.
• Passionate about technology with a very high technical aptitude.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead technical architecture initiatives that can span multiple Agile Release Trains or an entire platform, helping to ensure successful product deliveries. You will influence and lead teams across the business unit.
• Manage the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain, showing how new features are released or updated, with an eye on paying down technical debt with minimal disruption.
• Identifies opportunities to leverage common solutions for cross-cutting concerns for broader and more complex functionality at the program and/or enterprise level.
• Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
• Lead Proof-Of-Concepts and Spike Solutions, and provide Reference Architectures and Baseline Implementations when appropriate.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills. Ability to work with persons at all levels, from the most junior person to VP levels, in all job functions (e.g. product, UX, developers, QA, DevOps).
• Lead client architecture for Web applications for cross trains.
• Good sense of how Front-end Web (UI) components should be architected to enhance stability, security, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Provide architectural expertise in identification of technology partnerships.
• Establish & evangelize architectural guidelines, patterns and practices.
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Senior & Lead Architects.
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to developers and other stakeholders regarding the architecture and design of server applications, UI clients, encompassing APIs and micro-services, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services.
• Coordinate the architectural growth and development across several scrum teams.
• Ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives.
• Self-motivated to seeking out opportunities to move the application, its design, and architecture forward based on projected features and roadmap visions.
• Drive buy vs build evaluations, participates in high-level estimation.

This role can be open for remote work within USA.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development working on enterprise-class applications with 8+ years of Solution Design & Architecture experience. Experience leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams (e.g. multiple Agile/SAFe Release Trains).
• Substantial experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, Python, Node.js, Angular, React, message queue infrastructures, as well as AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure and services.
• Expert-level understanding of architecture, healthcare industry trends, business climate, and/or regulation that affect architecture decisions.
• Expert in the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach.
• Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing.
• Expert with popular Design Patterns catalogues.
• Expert with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control.
• Recognized leader with technical teams, broad technical knowledge, and recognized as an expert in one or more technical subjects outside of the company.
• Experience recognizing the impact architectural approaches can have on strategic business decisions.
• Experience with concept of service API, caching, web component, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, cloud platform, queue, micro services and service mesh, SQL and non-SQL Storage, identity management.
• Experience with designing and writing API contract, BFF, microservices and exposing REST APIs in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring JPA, Java and KAFKA development.
• Experience with RDBMS, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS, or Oracle; ORM (Hibernate); JMS including Kafka; caching strategies, profiling, memory management and performance tuning; and Optimization of through put and payload with service.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs that facilitate a superior UX or simplify systems integration.
• Experience with modern API patterns and how to build well-designed APIs.
• Experience with architecting solutions for Cloud (GCP, Azure, or AWS) and Microservices.
• Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles.
• Excellent communications skills with ability to communicate effectively in visual, verbal, and written form to teams, clients and leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed.
• A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products.

COVID Requirements

CVS Health requires its Colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.

If you are vaccinated, you are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status within the first 10 days of your employment. For the two COVID-19 shot regimen, you will be required to provide proof of your second COVID-19 shot within the first 45 days of your employment. In some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination before you can begin to actively work. Failure to provide timely proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status will result in the termination of your employment with CVS Health.

If you are unable to be fully vaccinated due to disability, medical condition, or religious belief, you will be required to apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment in order to remain employed with CVS Health. As a part of this process, you will be required to provide information or documentation about the reason you cannot be vaccinated. In some states and roles, you may be required to have an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work. If your request for an accommodation is not approved, then your employment may be terminated.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles.
• Exposure to Big-Data and/or Machine Learning.
• Health care and/or E-commerce industry experience.

Education

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience. Master’s Degree is desired.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer – ServiceOps

by Ronald Barron | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Wikimedia Foundation

Summary

Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our ServiceOps SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

The SRE team at Wikimedia is a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. The SRE ServiceOps team focuses on the application layer of our complex infrastructure as well as our developer-facing services. Our stack includes MediaWiki instances running on bare metal, surrounding microservices running on our own Kubernetes platform, an in-house designed deployment pipeline and open source collaboration software (Gerrit, Gitlab and Phabricator). We automation, and we automate as much as we can using primarily Python, Puppet, and Spicerack (https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-software-spicerack). We work in the open and document our work on our internal task management system and our technical wiki (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org). Feel free to check out our activities there!

As a senior engineer in the SRE ServiceOps team you will be involved in designing and running the infrastructure and services that form the base of Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, including, but not limited to: Kubernetes clusters, application servers, code collaboration infrastructure, and other developer-facing services. You will participate in incident response and be oncall. This role requires frequent work with other members of the SRE team to maintain and improve our systems, as well as interacting with people not in SRE, like Security, Release and Software Engineers, together striving to move our projects and technologies forward.

We use more technologies than we can list here and are interested in your experience even if it doesn’t exactly match the keywords above / below. If you find what we do interesting and enjoy the idea of working with a globally distributed team that runs a Top-15 website, we may be what you’re looking for!

You are responsible for:

• Design, implementation and maintenance of public facing infrastructure and services
• Use of configuration management and deployment tools
• Architectural design and operation at scale
• Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance and resource utilization
• Common operating system level tasks such as logging and backup / restore
• Cookbook / runbook implementation for common maintenance actions
• Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts
• Automation and streamlining of tasks as well as identifying process gaps
• Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don’t worry if you have never worked remotely, we’ll help you get used to it)
• Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength

Skills and Experience:

Qualities that are important to us:

• 5+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role
• Experience with operating highly available infrastructure
• Experience with running applications and services at scale
• Proficient with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
• Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, TerraForm etc.)
• Communicative technical English

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Experience implementing containerization solutions (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience administering code collaboration software (Gitlab, Gerrit)
• Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc)
• We are avid supporters (and users) of open source software; history of contributing to Open Source projects is valued
• Familiarity with RFC 2549
• Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement

The Wikimedia Foundation is…

…the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

U.S. Benefits & Perks*Sick and volunteer days, plus Monthly massages, 22 paid holidays, Pre-tax savings plans, Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
• Flexible and generous time off – vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 22 paid holidays – including the last week of the year.
• Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
• For those emergency moments – long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
• Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
• Great colleagues – diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people

*Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our PEO (Professional Employee Organization) to ensure alignment with local labor laws.

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Senior Research Analyst – Market and Competitive

by Ronald Barron | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: PSCU

Join the people helping people.

For people drawn to serving others through their work, PSCU is a place to thrive, as we serve our credit union members best by taking care of each other first.

If you want to help shape an industry, challenge yourself, and invest in your own future, this is the place for you. PSCU is a highly accessible environment where you’re empowered to think on your feet, work from your heart, and discover the very best version of your professional and personal self. Our Momentum. Your Moment.

This application is the first step in seizing your moment.

Under minimal supervision, this position leads PSCU’s market research efforts with financial institutions, both credit unions and banks, and current clients and prospects. The research responsibilities include collecting primary research results and analyzing the findings to guide strategic business decisions. This position assists in providing competitive analyses to multiple business units to help assess the competitive landscape and guide the company’s product and go-to-market strategies. In addition, this position, using data from our internal warehouse, leads key components of the PSCU Payments Index in delivering valuable insights to the market monthly.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the primary research functions for studies carried out by the Insight group. Types of studies included are annual sentiment Member-Owner Survey, transactional surveys, AskForensics in-depth qualitative interviews, various one-time surveys, and other primary research efforts where specific research expertise and consultation are needed. Provide support, guidance, and analytic support with Marketing Surveys, Implementation Surveys, Service Delivery Surveys, and Tradeshow Surveys.
• Lead operational and technical aspects of survey projects on time and within budget; including, but not limited to, survey and sample design, questionnaire design, statistical imputation and analysis, maintenance of data quality, preparation of sample frames and analytical reports, spreadsheet construction and documentation, and delivery of research.
• Serve as the lead resource and guide primary research that evolves from projects out of the Product Development Lifecycle Management (PDLM) initiatives. Examples include initiatives such as sophisticated research studies around product innovation, consumer behavior and usage, competitive intelligence, etc.
• Assist in the creation, analysis, and delivery of the PSCU Payments Index and all of the sub-varieties, JHA Transaction Insights, Hawaii Edition, and Primax Payment Pulse. This includes the extraction of needed data from Member Insight, the management, and improvement of templating tools, and the creation of the content, both copy and graphics, to support PSCU thought leadership efforts.
• Actively participate in Payments Index-related strategy discussions, proactively engage with key stakeholders to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the insights delivered, and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Use and maintain proper tools (Qualtrics, Business Objects, PowerBI, Salesforce, etc.) to complete, analyze, and present primary research and data analysis.
• Review competitive information and content that is acquired from various companies’ quarterly earning calls and secondary sources (competitors’ presentations/webinars, industry events, etc.) and discern their strategic approach to the financial institution marketplace.
• Access and extrapolate pertinent sales information from FedFis, SalesForce, Callahan data files, and line of business reports to provide a consolidated view of competitive opportunities and threats and overall performance results.
• Grow and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Present recommendations to senior management based on market research findings from primary research and competitive intelligence acquired by way of the previously outlined activities. In addition, work alongside Sales Operations, Account Management, and Sales to communicate the recommendations to drive strategic initiatives to win in the marketplace.
• Prepare and participate in briefings, meetings, tactical or planning with other functional areas and/or executive management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Role Requirements

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Data Analytics/Science, Management or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Experience

• Five (5) years in financial services, specifically in payments processing required.
• Research and data analytics (Business Objects, SQL, advanced MS-Excel, database software) experience required.
  Three (3) years of management experience preferred.

Pay Equity

PSCU is committed to pay equity and a competitive benefits package. The typical annual hiring range for this position based on relevant experience and internal equity is:

$72,400.00

to

$104,033.33

*Note: The amount shown is based on full time annual salary and would be prorated based on role.

In addition this position is eligible for an incentive plan, based on performance.

Benefits

At PSCU, everything we do recognizes the fact that our employees are our most important asset. That’s why we are committed to a work/life integration that goes above and beyond to ensure that you have quality time at home with your family and/or to pursue outside interests and aspirations. We back this up with generous PTO, the opportunity to work remotely, flexible scheduling, and a management team that understands how to adjust when the unexpected curveballs of life happen.

Check out the comprehensive benefits PSCU has to offer that further solidifies our reputation as a company that just gets it when it comes to balancing life’s planned and unplanned events while equipping you with all the tools for growth.

PSCU offers:

• Beautiful, state-of-the-art campuses
• Endless opportunities for advancement
• Competitive wages
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays

Our benefits package includes:

• Medical
• Dental and Vision
• Basic and Optional Life Insurance
• Company Paid Disability Insurance
• 401k (with employer match)
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Supplemental Insurance
• Legal Plan
• Pet Insurance
• Adoption Assistance Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness program
• Benefits are subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.

If this position requires you, now or in the future, to perform your function or report onsite at a PSCU location or travel on behalf of PSCU, entry procedure and Covid protocols are in place that will require your adherence as a condition of employment. PSCU manages these procedures and protocols requiring your use of third party digital applications, in compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

All applications are reviewed by an AIRS Certified Diversity and Inclusion Recruiter. Learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion HERE!

As a matter of operational management limitations and business administrative process parameters, remote position assignments at PSCU are geographically restricted to where PSCU currently operates. At this time, remote position assignments are not available in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Maine, and West Virginia. As a result, we are unable to proceed with your application. Applicants are encouraged to apply for other available opportunities for which they qualify.

PSCU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.

PSCU is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following “EEO is the Law” Poster and the “EEO is the Law” Poster Supplement. PSCU will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the legal duty to furnish information.

For positions based out of our Phoenix, Arizona location, PSCU is an E-Verify Employer. Please click here for the E-Verify Poster in English or Spanish. For information regarding your Right To Work, please click here for English or Spanish.

As an ongoing commitment to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities, PSCU has established alternative methods to complete the application process. Disabled applicants needing assistance are encouraged to submit resumes via our careers page submission button If further assistance is required.

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