Director, Enterprise Architecture; EA

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 (principles, governance, strategy, reference architectures, lifecycle management, and cross-domain coherence). 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; ensure architectural decisions are made by the right role (enterprise, solution, domain) 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 (e.g., platform and technology lifecycle management) 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.

Federated Team Structure and Collaboration

• Lead the Core EA team:
  Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing EA core that serves as the custodian of enterprise direction, governance, standards, and best practices.
• Enable the federated architecture community:
  Establish operating rhythms, forums, and collaboration mechanisms that align Enterprise Architects positioned in other teams (e.g., Security, Data) and architects embedded in delivery.
• Develop architecture talent and role clarity:
  Maintain clear role boundaries across Enterprise, Solution, and Domain Architects (and Domain SMEs), including expectations, artifacts, and engagement points.
• Stakeholder engagement and influence:
  Communicate architecture direction in business-relevant terms; build trust with leaders by balancing risk management with delivery pragmatism.

Domain-Specific Responsibilities and Engagement Model

• Steward enterprise capabilities:
  Ensure enterprise-level ownership exists for critical cross-cutting capabilities (e.g., Integration Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Enterprise Data Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture) and that these capabilities produce actionable standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Integration and interoperability oversight:
  Promote an "interoperability first" mindset; prevent point-to-point sprawl through enterprise integration principles, reference architectures, and governance aligned with data and security.
• Risk, compliance, and resilience alignment:
  Ensure architecture guidance supports regulatory and privacy requirements (e.g., HIPAA/PHI), cybersecurity posture, resilience, and operational supportability.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and BRM team to shape roadmaps and determine demand scope.
• Guide application lifecycle and modernization roadmaps.
• Partner with other architects to ensure solution designs align to business capabilities, enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and security standards.
• Govern architectural alignment at key solution lifecycle checkpoints.

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…