Director, Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery

Hourly Pay Range $74.78 - $115.91. The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate's expertise and years of experience, among other factors.

• Position:
  Director, Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery
• Location:
  
  Skokie, IL or Warrenville, IL or Arlington Heights, IL
• Full Time
• Hours:
  
  Monday–Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
• Hybrid Position
• Required Travel: local travel to other corporate sites will be required as needed.

Job Summary As the Director of Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery at Endeavor Health, you will lead the Enterprise Architecture team in making strategic technology investment decisions, aligning with clinical and business objectives to optimize cost efficiency and mitigate risks. You will oversee the development, testing, optimization, maintenance, and communication of the enterprise-wide Disaster Recovery Program. You will identify opportunities to support critical business recovery requirements, foster strong relationships with key stakeholders to align technology solutions with organizational goals, and promote the consistent use of tools, techniques, workflows, and platforms to drive operational excellence.

Collaborates with the IT business unit and Cyber security teams to ensure business continuity plans are seamlessly aligned with architecture requirements. Develops and maintains comprehensive system recovery testing protocols and detailed playbooks tailored to diverse scenarios. To be successful in this role, you will be expected to remain updated on the latest solutions and technologies and advocate for the adoption of industry best practices.

• Drives end-to-end activities for the assigned solutions portfolio and develops and leads teams for high performance outcomes.
• Provides direction for solution implementation, testing, support, and deployment, and offers technical and workflow guidance.
• Establishes relationships with domain leaders to understand strategic business needs and user needs; identifies business requirements to guide specifications for ease of business operations.
• Lead or participate in governance committees to collaborate with key stakeholders about priority and workload.
• Develops strong partnerships with other leaders to identify synergies and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborates with vendors to ensure systems and solutions are meeting the needs of Endeavor Health.
• Sets direction for IT operations through oversight of activities such as capital and operating budgets, policy and procedure development and maintenance, talent management and acquisition, sustaining relationships with operational stakeholders, governance activities, and other duties as assigned.
• Remains updated on the latest technologies available in the market and promotes the implementation of relevant technologies. Participates in industry-related organizations, such as HIMSS, CHIME, Epic UGM / XGM, VMWare World, etc.
• Collaborates across functional components led by other leaders to ensure overlaps and touchpoints are seamless, effective, efficient and achieve measurable outcomes.
• Manages the execution and completion of IT Disaster Recovery test activities including collaboration with BCM, business unit management, external partners, and key IT staff to plan, direct, control, and maintain effective DR plan testing.
• Coordinates data center recovery and serves as an IT liaison to the enterprise BCM team, ensuring IT technologies and processes support key availability and recovery requirements.
• Coordinates regular testing of Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Reduces costs and improves resource allocation by optimizing the IT infrastructure and eliminating redundancies.
• Identifies and integrates new technologies to drive business growth and enables the organization to respond quickly to market changes.
• Develops roadmaps for the future state of technology aligning architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
• Stays current with IT platform technologies, architectures, best practices and methodologies.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in technology, computer science, or a related field OR equivalent work experience.
• Certifications:
  
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