Lead Enterprise Architect

Lead Enterprise Architect

Become a part of our caring community. Join a high-impact leadership role at the forefront of healthcare transformation. As the Lead Enterprise Architect, you will shape the future of technology across a complex and rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem spanning payer, provider, pharmacy, clinical, corporate, and digital technology domains. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide strategy, drive modernization at scale, and partner directly with executive leadership to deliver innovative, secure, and resilient technology platforms that improve business outcomes and healthcare experiences.

• Lead the development and execution of enterprise architecture strategy aligned to business and digital transformation objectives.
• Establish target‑state architecture models across infrastructure, networking, security, quality, and observability domains.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, principals, and engineering teams.
• Drive enterprise-wide architecture governance, standards, reference architectures, and technology lifecycle management best practices.
• Facilitate architecture review boards, technology governance councils, and strategic planning forums.
• Define measurable architecture KPIs tied to business value, operational efficiency, and technical health.
• Lead enterprise software rationalization initiatives across thousands of applications and platforms.
• Develop application inventory, classification, and lifecycle management frameworks.
• Identify redundant, overlapping, under‑utilized, obsolete, and high‑risk technologies.
• Create modernization roadmaps focused on consolidation, retirement, re‑platforming, refactoring, SaaS migration, and cloud‑native transformation.
• Establish total cost of ownership and technical debt reduction strategies.
• Drive reduction in vendor sprawl and unsupported technologies.
• Implement application scoring models based on business capability alignment, operational criticality, security posture, technical fitness, compliance risk, and cloud readiness.
• Partner with finance and procurement teams to optimize software licensing and infrastructure costs.
• Adopt capability‑based planning methodologies and maintain enterprise application heatmaps and technology risk dashboards.
• Implement standardized lifecycle governance: assess, invest, migrate, retire, leverage CMDB and application dependency mapping tools, and promote API‑first and reusable platform architectures.
• Establish golden‑path engineering standards and approved technology patterns.
• Use architecture fitness functions and technical health metrics for continuous evaluation.
• Lead strategic architecture direction across core technology domains including cloud and infrastructure, multi‑cloud and hybrid‑cloud strategy, Kubernetes/container platform strategy, infrastructure‑as‑code, resiliency and disaster recovery, application architecture, microservices and event‑driven architectures, observability, Dev Sec Ops  enablement, platform engineering and developer experience, security and risk, zero‑trust architecture, identity and access management, healthcare regulatory compliance, and cyber‑resiliency standards.
• Define enterprise technology standards and approved reference architectures, govern technology lifecycle management and exception processes, establish domain roadmaps aligned with business capability maturity, conduct architecture assessments and technical due diligence, and drive standardization of integration patterns, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and telemetry frameworks.
• Lead strategic modernization and transformation initiatives, including legacy modernization, mainframe reduction, cloud migration and optimization, AI‑enabled operational automation, and infrastructure simplification and platform convergence.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive IT and architecture experience.
• 5+ years leading enterprise architecture initiatives within large‑scale healthcare, payer, or provider environments.
• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF), cloud…