Enterprise Architect

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The role of the Enterprise Architect is to partner with business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer‑term strategic vision of the organization. The Enterprise Architect participates in the maintenance of the enterprise architecture and participates in designs for enterprise‑level projects. The Enterprise Architect develops and maintains technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices, as assigned and in alignment to the strategic vision.

This is a Full Time, remote Enterprise Architect role.

• Partners with business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer‑term strategic vision of the organization.
• Provides technical architectural guidance to various development teams working on Services, Products and Platforms.
• Supports the evaluation of proposed and emerging technology to solve business problems, understands and influences the business capability roadmap.
• Participates in the creation of Technical Architecture(s), Business (Process) Architecture(s) and the production of all the related enterprise architecture artifacts.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions’ architectural initiatives, while considering the entire enterprise.
• Leads and participates in projects that require in‑depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
• Assists in the maintenance of EA Governing Principles.
• Assists in managing the EA governance process.
• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
• Ensures the conceptual completeness of business and technical solutions.
• Leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
• Assists in the development of communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
• Suggests research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s in engineering, computer science, business or other related field preferred or equivalent work experience.
• TOGAF Certified
• ITIL Foundations Certified
• 3 years of experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• 7 years of experience in information technologies and/or 6 years of experience in health care industry preferred.
• Strong understanding of health care, health insurance and the onsite / direct health market.
• Extensive Knowledge of EA Methodologies, including TOGAF and ITIL.
• Detailed understanding architectures and associated industry best practices.
• General understanding of all areas of IT.
• Comfortable operating in waterfall and iterative development life cycles.
• Skilled at building trust with the rest of IT, executives and business partners.
• Superb written and communication skills with the ability to communicate to all levels of staff both internal and external to the organization
• Creative, out‑of‑the‑box thinker who is willing to take innovative risks while balancing the road map for on‑time deliverables
• Ability to facilitate change effectively
• Demonstrated ability to fully support multiple diverse, simultaneous projects of various complexities with overlapping deadlines

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