Colorado Access - Web Service Architect

Wouldn’t it be nice to work for a company where the mission makes sense, the salaries are competitive, the company listens to the needs of the employees and the office is professional yet the dress is casual? Colorado Access is a nonprofit health plan serving the medical and behavioral needs of the medically underserved in Colorado. We offer an excellent benefit and compensation package, including medical, dental & vision, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and competitive PTO. We are currently looking for a Web Services Architect responsible for the overall architectural design, associated core development and ongoing support of strategically developed web applications. This position is accountable to provide the business with timely, useful, stable and long-term, supportable solutions to meet the needs of the business for years to come. Through mentoring, and coaching, this position will cultivate highly-scalable and supportable web architecture, a staff of highly skilled, efficient, and productive developers whose product solutions will drive the efficiencies of business processing. Essential Functions Summary: · Direct and participate in the design and development of Colorado Access' web services architecture with an emphasis on cross-platform database environments to effectively and efficiently support long-term business needs. · Provide usage and performance statistics of all web services on a monthly basis. Provide recommendations to ensure continued, successful and high-performance delivery of all web applications. · Ensure the delivery of stable solutions by maintaining rigorous testing and QA processes. Monitor the effectiveness of all development efforts through usage, performance, and error reporting as well as user satisfaction surveys. Establish and maintain development methodologies, tool-sets, and processes. · Provide continuous support and performance monitoring of our production websites and web services applications. Ensure that all processing is as efficient and automated as possible. Manage dependencies, errors, and notifications to ensure accurate and timely data processing. · Motivate and provide leadership and vision to subordinates and peers ensuring each employee is performing to the best of their ability. · Facilitate the appropriate processes and escalations to ensure enterprise database efforts are aligned with current business needs. Enforce data ownership by identifying company-wide departmental accountabilities and roles around corporate data. Ensure data integrity by maintaining these data ownership roles through stringent processes and security mechanisms. · Remain continuously aware of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and develop creative solutions to business needs. Ensure that solutions are agile, flexible, and scalable in order to extend their useful life as business and technical demands change. Requirements/Experience: Bachelor degree in Computer Science or other closely related field. Minimum of eight (8) years progressive experience in architecting web solutions using PHP, .NET or Java technologies Minimum of five (5) years of experience in an real-time ODS implementation Extensive understanding of SOA architecture and real-time messaging technologies using Websphere Application Server/TIBCO/MQ SQL Expertise in database technologies – Oracle/Microsoft/DB2/Sybase/MySql Expertise in XML xpath queries and related XML data parsing Expertise in Oracle XDB is a plus Related experience or education may be substituted for part of the above requirements.