Principal Applications Architect

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.

Work Shift:
8 Hours - Day Shifts (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Salary Range: $53.00 - $87.50

Union Position:
No

Department Details

Summary
The Principal Application Architect serves as a strategic leader within the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence, responsible for shaping the application technology landscape across Sanford Healthcare. Drives innovation by identifying and recommending solutions that enable critical business capabilities, ensure scalability and security, and align with the enterprise's long-term vision. Acting as a trusted advisor, the Principal Application Architect partners with stakeholders, application teams, and technical teams to deliver robust, future-ready application architectures that support organizational growth and transformation.

Job Description
As a key member of the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence, the Principal Application Architect is responsible for driving transformational opportunities through the strategic adoption of application technologies across the enterprise. Identifies critical business capabilities while ensuring alignment with evolving business and information systems requirements.

Designs and oversees the implementation of enterprise-level application solutions that align with business objectives and adhere to technical standards. Ensures that systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable, while guiding development teams in applying architectural best practices.

Collaborates with stakeholders and technology leaders as a trusted advisor to evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms that address current and future business needs. Works closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security Architects to ensure seamless integration of application solutions with underlying infrastructure and cloud environments, maintaining compliance with organizational security standards.

Reviews application technologies for fitness to purpose and defining iterative paths toward strategic architecture goals. Develops high-level plans to bridge gaps between current and target states, aligning with IT budgeting and capital planning cycles. Additionally, will analyze system performance and implement improvements to enhance scalability, reliability, and overall efficiency.

Must have the ability to work with leaders at all levels across the organization. Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to clarify/discover requirements. Partner with Application Owners to confer with end-users, clients, or management to define business requirements for complex systems and technology evolution, leading to engaged delegation to technical engineers. Collaborate within Architecture and across IT disciplines to identify, establish, and maintain principles, policies & technical standards. Collaboratively author, publish, and socialize these principles, policies & standards as assigned.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required. Consideration will be given candidates with minimum six years work experience in lieu of degree.

Expert level experience aligning purchased software with capabilities and enterprise architecture frameworks, knowledge of cloud integration patterns (SaaS, PaaS), leading or facilitating application selection processes (RFP's, RFI's), experience connecting purchased solutions to existing systems within the environment.

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