Enterprise IT Architect - Healthcare

Your responsibilities will include:

- Develop and maintain a multi-level enterprise capability roadmap by working with business and technology partners

- Collaborate with multiple partners to understand capability impacts and gaps, develop high-level solutions, and sequence delivery plans based on prioritized Business strategies and roadmaps

- Author and deliver current state, target state, and transitional enterprise architecture artifacts to identify existing or potential deficiencies with recommended solutions

- Identify and refine objective measures of improvement and success over time

- Collaborate to identify and analyze enterprise business drivers to derive business, application, data, and technical requirements and potential impacts

- Lead the evolution of Enterprise Architecture Practice, including an Architect Community of Practice

- Collaborate to detail and maintain an Enterprise Reference Architecture

- Collaborate to operationalize Architectural Standards, Principles, and Guidelines and ensure that they are followed by the organization.

- Provide architectural direction and oversight on enterprise grade initiatives

- Collaborate with business and IT leadership, and subject matter experts to understand current and future goals/requirements.

- Lead the charge of periodic Architecture related Capability Assessments and provide reports and recommendations to leadership to continuously advance our architecture

- Inform and contribute to organizational strategies based on insights of emerging technical trends and technology and applies to business needs, acting as a transformational agent

- Partner with product development teams to provide architectural oversight and guidance, ensuring alignment across efforts and teams

- Collaborate and coordinate with federated architects within the organization to drive consistency in technology decision making and execution.

- Guides team to translate business strategies into technology execution with Data and technical architectures/specifications.

- Effectively communicate business, functional, and non-functional requirements to business stakeholders and supporting designs to technical teams

- Adapt and work with team members of various experience levels and mentor/coach the team in addition to providing technical guidance and expertise

- Acts as the point of escalation and serves as an expert on enterprise architecture as well as assisting in the identification, analysis and resolution of data driven problems

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Business or IT

- 5+ years' experience as Principal / Chief Enterprise Architect. 15 years of architecture/design/delivery experience which includes 10 years of architecture experience.

- Recognized professional in their field of expertise. Likely to hold advanced degrees and/or contributed to the advancement of their area(s) of study outside the company and across industry.

- Must have experience in establishing enterprise architecture concepts in an agile environment and advanced knowledge of the business architecture and technology architecture principles

- Significant knowledge of current and emerging data architecture principles, methodologies, and tools

- Comprehensive experience with various architectural domains such as data, analytics, integration, application, security, and infrastructure.

- Must stay abreast with industry trends and interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices

- Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and across organizational boundaries.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously, and to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

- Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking with ability to differentiate feasible from academic solutions

- Demonstrated thought-leadership skills with the ability to translate high-level business strategy into application needs/solutions

- Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred qualifications:

- Med Tech / Healthcare industry experience strongly preferred.

- Strong analytical and broad architectural skills

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong negotiation/facilitation skills.

- Experience as negotiator with vendors for relevant products and services