Enterprise Architect II

We are hiring an Enterprise Architect II on our Strategy and Architecture team at BCBST! In this role, you will play a critical part in shaping the technical and business process roadmap for the foundational technologies powering our GenAI expansion. You’ll operate as a technical product owner for our Microsoft ecosystem—including M365, Foundry, and Power Platform—guiding how teams design, build, and scale AI-driven solutions. A key focus will be enabling our AI activation efforts by standing up the platforms, defining guardrails, and evolving the ecosystem to ensure what teams build is secure, sustainable, and production-ready. Day to day, you’ll collaborate across architecture, engineering, and business teams to mature our GenAI capabilities, influence long-term platform strategy, and ensure alignment between emerging AI technologies and enterprise needs. To be successful in this role, in addition to the core job requirements, you’ll bring strong experience operating as both an architect and technical product owner within the Microsoft ecosystem. You will be a strong candidate if you have deep expertise in Azure, M365, and Foundry, along with hands-on experience working with GenAI technologies, large language models (LLMs), and frontier model providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. A robust background in enterprise architecture is essential, along with the ability to design scalable, governed solutions. Experience in healthcare is highly preferred. Note: This is a remote, work-from-home position, but the final round of interviews will take place on-site in our Chattanooga, TN office. Sponsorship is not available for this role. Job Responsibilities Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of the EA to support the corporate business strategies. Leading in the implementation of EA strategies and best practices to support business objectives, while focusing on business process design, solutions, information gathering and technology utilization. Providing guidance to enterprise architects on defining technical service capabilities, design attributes, draft enterprise profiles and segment architecture; controlling risks and solving complex issues related to EA. Maintaining relationships with stakeholders, addresses stakeholder requirements and providing clients consultations to shape the future success of EA. Providing EA support by directing teams in baseline, target and roadmap development, transition planning, system and security management and segment architecture. Build and maintain architecture portfolio translating business strategies into IT investments. Job Qualifications Education Bachelors Degree in Business, Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested. Experience 5 years - Experience as an individual contributor leading a team in the design and implementation of one or more of the following: application and integration, data, technology and/or security architecture required. Number of Openings Available 1 Worker Type: Employee Company: BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc. Applying for this job indicates your acknowledgement and understanding of the following statements: BCBST will recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Further information regarding BCBST's EEO Policies/Notices may be found by reviewing the following page: BCBST's EEO Policies/Notices BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee via-email, the Internet or any other method without a valid, written Direct Placement Agreement in place for this position from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee HR/Talent Acquisition will not be considered. No fee will be paid in the event the applicant is hired by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee as a result of the referral or through other means.