Full-Time

Enterprise Architect

Updated on 5/14/2026

Vizient

Vizient

1,001-5,000 employees

Healthcare performance improvement and supply chain

Compensation Overview

$135.2k - $236.6k/yr

+ Incentive eligible

Chicago, IL, USA + 2 more

More locations: Cape Girardeau, MO, USA | Irving, TX, USA

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Category
IT & Security (1)
Requirements
  • Relevant degree preferred.
  • 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
  • Strong experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture across complex technology environments.
  • Experience designing architectures across applications, integrations, platforms, cloud technologies, and enterprise services.
  • Strong understanding of architecture methodologies, API design, integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
  • Experience developing architecture artifacts, diagrams, roadmaps, and technical decision documentation.
  • Ability to assess and communicate technical tradeoffs, enterprise risks, and operational impacts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to influence, mentor, and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
  • Working knowledge of enterprise architecture governance, modernization strategies, and AI-aware architecture planning.
Responsibilities
  • Lead cross-domain architecture initiatives for complex enterprise programs and solutions.
  • Partner with business units, product teams, engineering, CorpIT, and shared services to align architecture strategies with business goals.
  • Develop and maintain reference architectures, reusable patterns, and enterprise standards.
  • Guide solution design activities by identifying dependencies, integration considerations, technical risks, and reuse opportunities.
  • Support modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, API-first architectures, event-driven solutions, automation, and emerging technologies.
  • Evaluate architectural tradeoffs related to scalability, security, cost, supportability, risk, and operational efficiency.
  • Identify and communicate technical debt, duplicated capabilities, and enterprise architecture risks.
  • Represent Enterprise Architecture within governance forums, including Architecture Review Committee activities.
  • Mentor architects, engineers, and technical teams to strengthen architectural maturity and decision quality.
  • Create and maintain architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and technical documentation supporting enterprise initiatives.

Vizient helps healthcare providers improve efficiency and patient outcomes through data-driven solutions. It serves academic medical centers, health systems, community and rural hospitals, and ambulatory care providers. Its offerings include supply chain management, clinical and operational performance improvement, and strategic consulting, delivered through a membership model with access to analytics and expert guidance. By combining data analytics, industry insights, and scale, Vizient aims to help members reduce costs and deliver high-quality, cost-effective care.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$2B

Headquarters

Irving, Texas

Founded

1977

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • 2024 Kaufman Hall acquisition expands high-margin advisory services across domains.
  • PrefTech OR buyout adds cloud-based preference card management for point-of-care efficiency.
  • $156 billion contract portfolio leverages supplier negotiations for analytics revenue.

What critics are saying

  • Premier Inc. steals members with superior $68 billion volume pricing within 12-24 months.
  • GHX AI platform captures procedural analytics market share in 6-12 months.
  • 2022 Safe & Reliable integration causes 20% client attrition from cultural clashes.

What makes Vizient unique

  • Vizient's Procure-to-Pay platform holds ISO 9001 certification for full purchasing governance.
  • Procedural Analytics links pricing data to patient outcomes for value-based decisions.
  • Serves 97% of U.S. academic medical centers with specialized research solutions.

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Benefits

Five weeks (25 days) of PTO

Nine paid company holidays & one floating holiday

Four weeks to work from anywhere in the U.S.

High-deductible health plans

Dental and vision coverage

Health savings account with company contribution

Flexible spending accounts

Headspace wellness app

401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 5 percent

Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance

Short-term illness and long-term disability coverage

Tuition assistance program

Discounts on cell phone plans, movie tickets, hotels & much more

Company News

Business Wire
Jun 26th, 2024
Vizient to Acquire Kaufman Hall, Expanding Advisory Expertise for Healthcare Industry

Vizient announced that it has exercised its option to acquire the remaining interest in Kaufman Hall, a strategic advisor to the healthcare industry.

Business Wire
Oct 31st, 2023
Vizient Announces Acquisition of PrefTech OR, a Next-generation Physician Preference Card Management Technology

Vizient announces it has acquired PrefTech OR's next-generation, cloud-based preference card management software for healthcare providers.

Business Wire
Aug 2nd, 2022
Vizient Acquires Safe & Reliable Healthcare, Creates New Streamlined Solution for Sustained Delivery of Safe Healthcare

Vizient has acquired Safe & Reliable Healthcare, a leading provider of high reliability services for sustained delivery of safer patient care.