Architect

• Develop architectural artifacts, models, patterns, and transition activities
• Collaborates with a team of architects to develop architectures in support of strategic initiatives
• Analyzes Business and IT environments to detect deficiencies and recommend solutions
• Recommends, reviews, documents, maintains and publishes functional technology standards
• Serves as an expert advisor to peers and leadership on technologies based on cost and value
• Develops relationships with business stakeholders and IT management
• Defines roadmaps and transition architectures
• Utilizes exceptional communication skills with all levels of employees and management
• Supports architecture governance and ensures alignment to business priorities

IT Architect

• Designs, develops, implements, supports, and optimizes architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs
• Provides strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures
• Participates in enterprise strategy development
• Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes
• 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
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration, and processes
• Communicates effectively with all levels of organization
• Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans for design and technical walkthroughs

• Designs and applies modern computing architectures, including hybrid-cloud, edge computing, and big data platforms.
• Architects solutions that integrate Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and advanced Modeling & Simulation (M&S) analysis tools.
• Supervises advanced, resilient network architectures and cybersecurity principles.
• Applies architectural expertise to large-scale DoD operational contexts.

Architecture, Technology SME

• Serve as a trusted executive advisor responsible for influencing clients’ cybersecurity transformation strategies
• Drive successful security outcomes through consulting engagements with strategic prospects and customers
• Lead, direct, and advise cross-functional teams to orchestrate strategic client engagements
• Deliver authoritative architectural roadmaps that address clients' business needs
• Establish and maintain executive-level relationships in strategic accounts
• Conduct high-impact consulting engagements, including architectural assessments and designs

Principal Architect

• Accountable for the performance and capacity management of Highmark’s IBM zEnterprise mainframe environment
• Proactively monitor system resource utilization (CPU, memory, storage)
• Analyze workload trends and forecast future infrastructure requirements
• Balance system performance with financial efficiency
• Collaborate with application and DevOps teams
• Facilitate development of complex enterprise business solutions

Senior Mainframe Architect – Performance, Capacity Management

• Implement firm‑wide BIM, design, and practice technology standards, strategies, templates, and workflows
• Maintain and enforce BIM, design, and practice technology documentation standards and processes across disciplines
• Research and assist with integrating emerging tools, software, and methods to support both design and practice technology improvements
• Support company‑wide standardization and digital design initiatives across project teams and offices
• Provide advanced technical support for Revit, ACC, Dynamo, computational design tools, visualization tools, Bluebeam and other design/practice technology platforms
• Troubleshoot BIM and design/practice technology issues for project teams by helping with ticketing system
• Develop automation scripts (Dynamo/Python/C#) to enhance BIM, design, and practice technology workflows
• Assist with content development for Revit families, details, and other design/practice‑technology resources
• Implement model management workflows to ensure coordinated, high‑quality, multi‑discipline BIM models and related design/practice technology deliverables across projects
• Ensure consistent application of BIM standards, model management practices, coordination protocols, and QA/QC procedures across assigned projects
• Review and validate project setup, model health, version alignment, content use, coordination workflows, and compliance with BIM Execution Plans and PBK standards
• Serve as a key resource for architects, engineers, project managers, and consultants regarding BIM, design workflows, and practice technology processes
• Communicate updates on BIM, design technology, templates, content resources, and practice technology initiatives across teams
• Promote adoption of tools, templates, and delivery methods across project teams and contribute to knowledge sharing and best-practice development across PBK
• Assist with training programs for BIM, design, and practice technology workflows across project teams.
• Assist with developing documentation, guides, and onboarding materials for BIM, design, and practice technology platforms.
• Help with onboarding new hires and support them as they transition into project work to ensure digital competency and consistency.

BIM Manager – Architecture

• Lead architecture for enterprise-wide, high-impact I&O initiatives
• Ensure coordinated execution, proactive risk management, and timely executive decision support
• Serve as the architectural and integration authority across various program types
• Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into actionable infrastructure architectures
• Establish integration and separation blueprints for M&A and divestiture programs
• Drive consistency and reuse of architectural patterns across programs and regions
• Develop and govern execution plans for major transformation programs
• Coordinate across platform teams, regional leads, and business stakeholders
• Identify and manage interdependencies across concurrent initiatives
• Surface emerging risks early and facilitate mitigation planning

Senior Director – Foundational Transformation, Integration Architecture

• Responsible for leading one or more architecture teams within one or more segments or domains for a single business unit.
• Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
• Ensure alignment of initiatives to target state, enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Proactively identify opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions.
• Responsible for leading an architecture team within Bond and Specialty Insurance division.
• Define and execute the strategic architecture roadmap for platform modernization of Management Liability and Cyber products.
• Drive a cohesive domain architecture and integration strategy (for APIs, Events, Agents) across Product, Underwriting, Pricing, and Specialty Cyber domains.
• Drive continuous technology transformation and modernization, including to minimize technical debt.
• Provide thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
• Collaborate with and influence leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
• Optimize talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources.
• Proactively attract, develop, engage, and retain high performing talent.
• Set clear goals, provide ongoing feedback, and hold talent accountable.
• Promptly address performance issues.
• Ensure proper alignment of team skills with technology direction and execution proof of technologies.
• Prepare and deliver communications to convey architectural direction.
• Drive strategic relationships and champion buy-in.

Senior Director, Product Architecture

• Serve as a strategic leader guiding the agency’s transition toward a modern, scalable, and secure application ecosystem.
• Shape the architecture that unifies legacy systems with emerging cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments.
• Define modernization pathways, advancing Zero Trust principles, and establishing standardized patterns for microservices, containerization, and observability.
• Enable faster application onboarding, stronger security guardrails, and an enterprise-wide shift toward automated, resilient, and data-driven operations.
• Lead enterprise architecture across legacy, AWS, Azure, and on-prem systems.
• Define modernization, Zero Trust, microservices, DevSecOps patterns.

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