Enterprise Architect Senior

The Enterprise Architect Senior provides advanced solutions and domain architecture leadership for complex clinical, operational, and administrative initiatives within a healthcare system. This role translates business and clinical requirements into well-defined architectural designs and works closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Enterprise Architect Senior serves as a technical mentor and escalation point for architects and engineers while supporting enterprise architecture governance and consistency.

• Leads architecture across multiple related initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and approved patterns.
• Translates business, clinical, and operational requirements into detailed architecture designs spanning applications, integrations, data, and supporting infrastructure.
• Reviews and approves solution designs produced by project teams, identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse or standardization.
• Produces and maintains architecture artifacts, including system diagrams, integration views, and design specifications that support implementation and operations.
• Serves as a regular reviewer in architecture governance and design reviews, providing recommendations and ensuring compliance with established standards and principles.
• Influences delivery teams and vendors to ensure architectural intent is maintained.
• Provides domain-level architectural oversight for healthcare interoperability solutions, ensuring reliable and secure data exchange across clinical and operational systems.
• Identifies and mitigates architectural risks related to performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Mentors Enterprise Architects and engineers, promoting architectural best practices and consistency across initiatives.
• Contributes to refinement of standards and patterns.
• Evaluates impact of strategy on domain architecture.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Required:
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field
• Preferred:
  Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field

• Required:
• 7 years of total IT experience
• 5 years of experience with IT architecture, systems design and analysis in healthcare.
• 5 years of experience with Enterprise Architecture modeling techniques to create the right-sized specification to which teams can design or implement within the business and IT ecosystem.
• 5 years of clinical experience drives a better understanding of the stakeholders and customers benefiting from the solution in the context of healthcare delivery.
• 5 years of strong experience in designing and working with n-tier and cloud architecture
• 5 years of strong technical background in software development, infrastructure management, databases, security, networking, and systems integration.
• 5 years of experience with organizational change management and aligning technology roadmaps with business strategies.

• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) 1 or 2 certification
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification
• Platform-centric certification at architect level