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Director Enterprise Architecture (EA)

The Director Enterprise Architecture (EA) reports to the VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is the senior leader accountable for BJC’s enterprise-wide architectural direction. This role leads the Core EA team in a federated EA operating model, defines and governs enterprise architecture principles and standards, and ensures coherent cross-domain decision-making across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise strategy to architecture translation:
  Partner with executive leadership and key stakeholders to translate business strategy into enterprise architecture direction, target states, and prioritized roadmaps.
• Own the EA governance model and decision rights:
  Define and run EA governance to promote speed, coherence, and value, ensuring architectural decisions are made by the right role at the right time.
• Define enterprise principles, standards, and reference architectures:
  Establish and maintain enterprise-wide principles, standards, and reference models that enable consistent solution design and reduce fragmentation.
• Cross-domain alignment and arbitration:
  Facilitate cross-domain decision-making, arbitrate architectural conflicts and tradeoffs across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration.
• Roadmaps lifecycle management and modernization:
  Lead creation of enterprise modernization roadmaps and lifecycle strategies aligned to business capabilities and risk posture.
• Architecture as a force multiplier for delivery:
  Ensure Solution Architects and Domain Architects have clear guardrails, patterns, and reusable assets so delivery teams can move quickly while remaining enterprise aligned.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years in architecture roles with demonstrated enterprise-level impact (enterprise solution and/or domain architecture)
• 2-5 years proven leadership of an EA function including governance standards and roadmap development in a complex organization
• Strong understanding across key enterprise domains: applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure (breadth with the ability to go deep when needed)
• Experience designing and operating federated models that embed architecture into delivery without sacrificing enterprise coherence
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management ability to influence without direct control across federated teams
• Demonstrated ability to balance business value, speed-to-delivery, risk, security/privacy, and operational supportability in architectural decisions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare industry experience and familiarity with clinical/non-clinical application ecosystems and interoperability needs
• Experience with enterprise integration (API-led, event-driven messaging, managed file transfer)
• Familiarity with EHR (Epic) integration leveraging tools like Cloverleaf/Rhapsody to manage HL7/FHIR interfaces
• Cloud platform strategy and modernization experience (including Azure) infrastructure lifecycle management and resilience planning
• Background in data architecture, analytics/AI enablement, and data governance operating models
• Relevant certifications (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent) security certification a plus
• Bachelor's Degree - IS/Business/related