Friday, January 13, 2012

TriZetto - Technical Architect

Sr. Technical Architect

The TriZetto Group, Inc. is the leading provider of information technology and service solutions for the healthcare payer industry. TriZetto’s technology touches more than half of the insured population of the United States with offerings that include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. TriZetto is committed to a vision of Integrated Healthcare Management (IHM) to improve the US healthcare system, by enabling the systematic application of processes and shared information to optimize the coordination of benefits and care for the healthcare consumer.


Sr. Technical Architect

This role is responsible for the strategic planning, high level architecture design, and detailed architecture design for the technology platform for TriZetto’s Hosting Services. This person will work with a team to analyze business requirements, customer requirements, operational requirements, and develop solutions that address immediate needs and future strategic opportunities.

· Ability to assess and plan the development of long-term strategic goals for the enterprise technology platform in conjunction with IT service owners and IT staff.

· Responsible for the architecture design and engineering of technology characteristics, objectives, and drivers for compute, application delivery, and virtualization architectures.

· Assist in the architecture design and engineering of technology characteristics, objectives, and drivers for systems management, orchestration & automation, storage management, networking, and security controls.

· Lead, coordinate, and participate in key process improvements.

· Assist in the continued development of technical staff and core technologies.

· Examine and evaluate technology vendors and their hardware/software for strategic solutions to the business.

· Develop and maintain standards and guidelines for responsible areas of the architecture platform based on strategy, functional, best practices, and detailed designs.

· Lead/participate in organization and client facing architecture initiatives.

· Performs technical assessment/proof of feasibility for new initiatives.

· Act as mentor and coach to members of the team.

· Act in an architectural advisory capacity to implementation and support teams.

· Performs other related duties and assignments as required.





Required Skills:

· 5-8 years of Technical Architecture experience.

· Strong Architecture design background in various Linux flavors, OS standards, performance metrics, and database operations.

· Strong Architecture design background in Microsoft Windows, DNS, and Active Directory technologies.

· Architecture design skills in web-based application delivery and user/service portals.

· Architecture design skills in various x86 hardware platforms including HP ProLiant, IBM x-series, and Cisco UCS.

· Architecture design skills in Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, and Remote Desktop technologies.

· Architecture design skills in VMware virtualization, vSphere ESXi, vCenter, Site Recovery Manager, vCloud Director, and orchestrations/automation.

· Strong Architecture design background in datacenter and infrastructure management.

· Excellent knowledge of Security in all aspects of IT including skills in SAS 70, HIPPA, etc.

· Architecture design of multi-tiered service approaches.

· Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools including creating detailed designs in Visio and Word.

· Excellent knowledge of networking (TCP/IP/ DNS/WINS LAN/WAN).

· Excellent communication skills, organizational capabilities, and comprehension capabilities.

· Self motivated and directed with keen attention to detail with ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

· Strong Project Management experience with excellent technical documentation skills.

· Education, training, professional certification, and relevant experience.

· College diploma or university degree.

Preferred Skills:

· Architecture design skills in UNIX/AIX.

· Architecture design skills with IBM Power hardware.

· Architecture design skills in Sybase, Oracle, and MS SQL technologies.

· Architecture design skills in systems management with HP OpenView, HP BSA, and various other technologies as related to configuration, provisioning, performance, and problem management.

· Architecture design skills in orchestration & automation including scripting, CLI, and imaging approaches.

· Architecture design skills in storage management in enterprise SAN/NAS environments, especially storage vendors including EMC, NetApp, and Isilon using various protocols with experience in FC, FCoE, iSCSI, & file-based.

· Strong knowledge of enterprise backup software, networking, and security controls with architecture techniques and methods.

· Architecture design of multi-tiered service oriented environments in a hosting, cloud, or SaaS offerings.

· Knowledge of ITIL/ITSM processes and procedures.

· College diploma or university degree in a related field.







If you are interested in this position please apply via the link below:


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Please visit www.trizetto.com/careers for more information about the benefits and advantages of choosing a career at TriZetto.



We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.



Please visit www.trizetto.com/careers for more information about the benefits and advantages of choosing a career at TriZetto.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.