[Hiring] Enterprise Medicaid Architect @NTT DATA Services

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Medicaid Enterprise Architect to support the State of Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization initiative. The Enterprise Architect will assess the current Medicaid technology environment and help define the architecture and modernization strategy for the Illinois Medicaid Enterprise. The position will support:

• Current-state assessment
• IT Asset Inventory
• Medicaid Enterprise/MITA Assessment
• Legacy MMIS modernization
• Market Analysis
• Enterprise Roadmap development
• Transition to Agile execution

This role will evaluate complex business and technology environments, identify architecture gaps and dependencies, and recommend practical approaches for modernization. The work will span:

• Business architecture
• Application architecture
• Data architecture
• Integration architecture
• Infrastructure architecture
• Security architecture

The Enterprise Architect must be able to understand complex Medicaid business and technical requirements, translate them into practical architecture recommendations, and clearly explain modernization options and tradeoffs to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Architecture, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience supporting large, complex technology programs, including at least 5 years applying enterprise architecture principles to technology transformation, modernization, or enterprise systems initiatives.
• 3+ years of Health and Human Services experience involving Medicaid eligibility, MMIS/MES, Health Information Exchange (HIE), Health Information Technology (HIT), or similar healthcare modernization initiatives.
• 3+ years of experience developing or evaluating enterprise architectures and technology modernization roadmaps, including current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture.
• 5+ years of experience across at least three architecture domains: application, integration, data, infrastructure, and security.
• 3+ years of experience applying enterprise architecture frameworks or methodologies such as TOGAF or Zachman.
• Experience applying Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) or other Medicaid or Health and Human Services architecture standards and approaches.
• 3+ years of experience designing, evaluating, or documenting system integrations, including APIs, interfaces, interoperability requirements, system dependencies, data flows, or non-functional requirements.
• 5+ years of experience analyzing complex business and technical requirements and translating them into architecture recommendations, solution options, or modernization strategies.
• 5+ years of experience evaluating technical alternatives, dependencies, risks, constraints, and modernization tradeoffs and documenting findings and recommendations.
• 5+ years’ experience clearly communicating complex architecture recommendations, solution options, tradeoffs, risks, and decision points to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience working independently and as part of multidisciplinary teams to produce professional client-facing deliverables.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Ability to objectively evaluate competing technical approaches, challenge assumptions constructively, distinguish facts from assumptions, and develop evidence-based recommendations supported by documented rationale.
• Enterprise architecture certification such as TOGAF.
• Direct experience supporting State Medicaid Enterprise Systems, MMIS modernization, or modular Medicaid implementations.
• Experience conducting Medicaid Enterprise or MITA assessments and developing enterprise modernization roadmaps.
• Experience with legacy or mainframe modernization, system decomposition, dependency analysis, and transition planning.
• Experience developing business capability models and mapping capabilities to processes, applications, data, interfaces, and technology components.
• Experience using enterprise architecture modeling techniques, notations, and repositories, or architecture management tools.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture artifacts, including reference architectures, application and integration views, data flows, and target-state architectures.
• Knowledge of Medicaid claims, encounters, providers, member and eligibility functions, financial operations, data and analytics, and enterprise integration.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards and API-enabled integration, including standards such as HL7 FHIR, X12, or other healthcare data-exchange standards applicable to Medicaid and healthcare ecosystems.
• Experience with cloud architecture, enterprise data architecture, or security architecture in support of large-scale modernization initiatives.
• Experience supporting Agile or SAFe delivery, including planning, architecture runway, backlog refinement, user stories, and non-functional requirements.
• Project Management, Agile, or SAFe certification.
• Experience working in complex, multi-vendor public-sector modernization environments.
• Ability to work effectively in an environment with ambiguity, changing priorities, and multiple stakeholder groups.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution
• Flexible spending or health savings account
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance
• Participation in a 401k program with company match
• Additional voluntary or legally required benefits