Systems Architect IV

Position Description

The Systems Architect IV (Lead) provides advanced technical leadership in the design, standardization, and evolution of the organization’s infrastructure and platform environments. The role is responsible for architecting secure, scalable, and highly available systems that align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational best practices. The Lead Systems Architect serves as a trusted advisor across technical teams, ensuring architectural consistency while enabling innovation and delivery.

This position operates at both a strategic and hands‑on capacity; defining architectural templates and standards, guiding high‑impact initiatives, resolving complex cross‑domain challenges, and influencing technology direction without direct authority. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. At the Lead level, it requires strong skills in mentorship, coaching, and training for peers, colleagues on other teams, and leadership to empower the entire organization.

• Design and lead implementation of complex, multi‑domain system architectures across infrastructure, network, cloud, and platform environments.
• Define and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and reference designs to ensure consistency, scalability, and security.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide expert guidance on proposed technical solutions; identifying risks, trade‑offs, and optimization opportunities.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, application programming, and operations teams to ensure systems are secure by design and operationally resilient.
• Architect solutions with appropriate considerations for availability, performance, capacity, lifecycle management, and cost optimization.
• Promote and guide automation, scripting, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.
• Resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple systems, teams, or domains of expertise to provide authoritative technical direction.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations aligned with organizational goals.
• Develop clear technical documentation, diagrams, and design artifacts to support implementation, operation, and governance.
• Mentor infrastructure, database, networking, programming, and other technical teams, raising technical maturity and fostering a culture of architectural innovation and excellence.
• Communicate architectural vision, decisions, and trade‑offs effectively to leadership and key stakeholders.

• Creates a positive, professional, service‑oriented work environment for staff, patients and family members by supporting the mission and values of Trinity Health Medical Group.
• Must be able to work effectively as a member of the Information Systems team.
• Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner, to assure personal safety and that of coworkers, and to report all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately to management.
• Successfully completes all relevant organizational training and adheres to Trinity Health Medical Group standard of care as outlined in the Trinity Health Code of Conduct.
• Maintains knowledge of and complies with Trinity Health Medical Group standards, policies and procedures.
• Maintains general knowledge of Trinity Health Medical Group office services and in the use of all relevant office equipment, computer and manual systems.
• Maintains strict confidentiality in compliance with Trinity Health Medical Group and HIPAA guidelines.
• Serves as a role model by demonstrating exceptional ability and willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities. Embraces new ideas and respects cultural differences.
• Uses resources efficiently.
• If applicable, responsible for ongoing professional development – maintains appropriate licensure/certification and continuing education credentials, participates in available learning opportunities.

Performance that meets or exceeds IHA CARES Values expectation as outlined in IHA…