Enterprise Architect Senior

The Enterprise Architect Senior provides advanced solutions and domain architecture leadership for complex clinical, operational, and administrative initiatives within a healthcare system. This role translates business and clinical requirements into well-defined architectural designs and works closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Enterprise Architect Senior serves as a technical mentor and escalation point for architects and engineers while supporting enterprise architecture governance and consistency.<br><p><br /><b>Essential Job Function:</b></p><ul><li>Leads architecture across multiple related initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and approved patterns.</li></ul><ul><li>Translates business, clinical, and operational requirements into detailed architecture designs spanning applications, integrations, data, and supporting infrastructure.</li></ul><ul><li>Reviews and approves solution designs produced by project teams, identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse or standardization.</li></ul><ul><li>Produces and maintains architecture artifacts, including system diagrams, integration views, and design specifications that support implementation and operations.</li></ul><ul><li>Serves as a regular reviewer in architecture governance and design reviews, providing recommendations and ensuring compliance with established standards and principles.</li></ul><ul><li>Influences delivery teams and vendors to ensure architectural intent is maintained.</li></ul><ul><li>Provides domain-level architectural oversight for healthcare interoperability solutions, ensuring reliable and secure data exchange across clinical and operational systems.</li></ul><ul><li>Identifies and mitigates architectural risks related to performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.</li></ul><ul><li>Mentors Enterprise Architects and engineers, promoting architectural best practices and consistency across initiatives.</li></ul><ul><li>Contributes to refinement of standards and patterns.</li></ul><ul><li>Evaluates impact of strategy on domain architecture.</li><li>Performs other duties as assigned.</li></ul><p><br /><b>Education:</b></p><ul><li>Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field</li><li>Preferred:<b> </b>Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field</li></ul><p><br /><b>Experience: </b></p><ul><li>Required: </li><li>7 years of total IT experience </li><li>5 years of experience with IT architecture, systems design and analysis in healthcare.</li><li>5 years of experience with Enterprise Architecture modeling techniques to create the right-sized specification to which teams can design or implement within the business and IT ecosystem.</li><li>5 years of clinical experience drives a better understanding of the stakeholders and customers benefiting from the solution in the context of healthcare delivery.</li><li>5 years of strong experience in designing and working with n-tier and cloud architecture</li><li>5 years of strong technical background in software development, infrastructure management, databases, security, networking, and systems integration.</li><li>5 years of experience with organizational change management and aligning technology roadmaps with business strategies.</li></ul><p><br /><b>Licensure/Certification/Listing: </b></p><br /><p><b>Preferred:</b></p><ul><li>The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) 1 or 2 certification</li></ul><ul><li>Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification</li></ul><ul><li>Platform-centric certification at architect level</li></ul>