Enterprise Architect

Hybrid role - Urgent client needs Enterprise Architect in Chicago, IL

Enterprise Architect

Chicago, IL

12+ Months

Job Summary

The Enterprise Architect is assigned to the Health Information Systems (HIS) department. The Enterprise Architect collaborates with leaders and HIS subject matter experts to evaluate projects, establish architecture standards, and define technology strategies that guide the health system toward achieving its goals. They ensure solutions transition from current state to target state solutions that achieve business outcomes. They monitor IT services to ensure compliance with technical standards and support the needs of a modern, digital health system. This is a fast paced, multi-priority environment and team members will frequently face new challenges.

This is a hybrid position. Some work can be remote, but the Enterprise Architect must be able to be physically onsite at the Central Campus in Chicago, IL within 2 hours.

Typical Duties

• Evaluate projects to ensure alignment with HIS standards, identify technology requirements, estimate required HIS involvement, and define high-level architecture.
• Monitor IT projects and solutions to ensure compliance with architectural standards, providing guidance and adjustments as needed to maintain alignment.
• Develop and maintain architecture frameworks across application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security domains.
• Integrate risk management and compliance into architecture and governance practices.
• Oversee systems architecture governance, standardization, and lifecycle management to support the scalability and modernization of IT services.
• Mentor and coach technical teams and stakeholders to instill architectural thinking and facilitate adoption of architecture principles.
• Create architectural diagrams, roadmaps, and blueprints to visually communicate system designs and guide the implementation of enterprise solutions.
• Position the Enterprise Architecture practice as an internal consultancy offering services and skills to IT service delivery teams.
• Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategies that align technology with business objectives.
• Assess trends, disruptions, and emerging technologies to evaluate their impact on organizational objectives and technology strategy.
• Collaborate with IT and business leaders to ensure interoperability, secure solutions, and alignment with organizational priorities and standards.
• Develop tools and processes to map IT systems to organizational business capabilities, ensuring investments align with priorities.
• Establish and utilize feedback mechanisms to continuously refine IT strategies and solutions.
• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Reporting Relationships

Reports to the Technology Information Officer

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree from an accredited college or university
• Ten (10) years of experience supporting or developing enterprise technology solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Experience developing enterprise technology solutions in a large healthcare system.
• Experience with solution development utilizing public cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Experience managing technology projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Characteristics

• Architecture Knowledge: Uses proven frameworks. Has a comprehensive understanding of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks such as TOGAF and Cloud Architecture Frameworks such as the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework. Translates this knowledge into strategies, patterns, blueprints, and roadmaps that other team members understand and follow.
• Technical Knowledge: Applies technical expertise. Understands information technology disciplines such as cloud, infrastructure and network design, code-based infrastructure and configuration automation, application programming interfaces (APIs), middleware, servers and storage, databases, clustering, and virtualization.

• Development Knowledge: Uses System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices. Understands when to use project life cycle methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, and DevOps. Proficient with development languages such as Java, C#, Python, and PowerShell.

• IT & Cybersecurity Governance: Guides architecture to support security, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Understands IT service management (ITSM), ITIL, and project management principles, including PMI PMBOK. Ensures enterprise architecture aligns with security and privacy standards such as NIST, CIS, SOC, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, and HITRUST, providing guidance to IT leaders in their enforcement and implementation.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Ensures architecture aligns with financial goals. Understands cost optimization, ROI, and value-based care economics.
• Interoperability: Advocates for seamless connectivity. Understands healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7, and X12. Works to break down silos between systems, organizations, and data. Architects a more connected healthcare ecosystem.
• Integrity: Upholds the highest ethical standards in all professional activities, ensuring honesty, transparency, and accountability. Maintains objectivity by remaining unbiased toward specific technologies or vendors, focusing on achieving optimal results over personal preferences.
• Enablement Mindset: Takes pride in seeing others succeed. Ensures service and product teams can easily understand, implement, and follow enterprise architecture standards. Works effectively in a team environment and with cross-functional teams.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Characteristics (continued)

• Humility: Champions diverse perspectives. Maintains confidence in expertise while actively seeking input and considering alternative solutions from others.
• Change Advocacy/Management: Influences, guides, and facilitates stakeholders and peers in decision-making processes. Serves as a thought leader capable of persuading executives, business leaders, HIS leaders, and service and product teams.
• Communication & Influence: Uses diplomacy and storytelling to drive adoption of architectural principles. Exhibits excellent oral and written communication abilities, adept at conveying new ideas and concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Builds strong relationships with executives, business leaders, and IT teams.
• Analytical Thinking: Understands both long and short-term perspectives, translating future business capabilities and requirements into enterprise architecture needs.
• Risk Management: Evaluates trade-offs and mitigates risks. Makes architecture recommendations based on cost, security, scalability, and regulatory impact.

• Pragmatic and Detail Oriented: Takes a thorough, accurate, and organized approach to tasks and projects, ensuring attention to detail and alignment with organizational objectives. Proposes and estimates the financial impact of solution architecture options.
• Business-Results Orientation: Seeks to understand business needs and works to anticipate, identify, and meet customer needs. Commits to delivering exceptional services, meeting project deadlines, and driving measurable improvements in business outcomes.

• Continuous Learning: Demonstrates intellectual curiosity. Seeks out learning opportunities to quickly comprehend the capabilities of new technologies and their application to evolving business and operating models. Keeps all knowledge up to date.
• Flexibility: Is willing to roll up their sleeves to help others when necessary, demonstrating adaptability and a hands-on approach to achieve objectives.

Physical and Environmental Demands

This position is functioning within a healthcare environment. The incumbent is responsible for adherence to all hospital and department specific safety requirements. This includes but is not limited to the following policies and procedures: complying with Personal Protective Equipment requirements, hand washing and sanitizing practices, complying with department specific engineering and work practice controls and any other work area safety precautions as specified by hospital wide policy and departmental procedures.

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