Must haves:
Infrastructure Architecture
Cloud Architecture, only azure
Healthcare EXPERIENCE IS going to be the separator here
Enterprise Architecture Experience
Job Description:
Position Overview:
Client is seeking a senior Enterprise Architect to help define, govern, and evolve the organization's enterprise technology architecture. This is a strategic, cross-functional architecture role for an experienced technology leader with a strong foundation in infrastructure and networking and the breadth to operate across the full enterprise technology landscape.
The ideal candidate has progressed from an infrastructure/networking background into enterprise architecture at large-scale organizations and understands how infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, applications, integrations, data, and enterprise platforms work together.
This is primarily a hands-off architecture and governance position rather than a hands-on engineering or development role. The Enterprise Architect will spend approximately 95% of their time on architecture documentation, technical artifacts, solution reviews, governance, stakeholder engagement, standards, and architectural decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, roadmaps, and technical guardrails.
- Lead architecture reviews for complex enterprise technology initiatives from concept through implementation.
- Evaluate proposed solutions, designs, technology platforms, vendor solutions, SOWs, and technical approaches.
- Review architecture artifacts and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, technology strategy, security requirements, and long-term organizational objectives.
- Partner with infrastructure, networking, security, application, data, integration, cloud, and engineering teams to ensure architectural alignment.
- Ask the right technical questions, identify risks and dependencies, and challenge proposed designs when appropriate.
- Serve as the connective point across technical disciplines while allowing specialized engineering teams to own detailed implementation.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, standards, decision records, roadmaps, and other technical artifacts.
- Establish appropriate architectural guardrails while providing flexibility for project and engineering teams.
- Facilitate architecture governance discussions with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations and documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Identify opportunities to improve enterprise technology consistency, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational effectiveness.
- Track architectural decisions and ensure agreed-upon standards and requirements are incorporated throughout the project lifecycle.
- Collaborate with principal engineers, technical leads, project teams, and organizational leadership to drive initiatives through successful delivery.
Required Qualifications:
- Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture within large, complex organizations.
- Strong foundation in infrastructure and networking architecture.
- Demonstrated progression from infrastructure/networking roles into broader enterprise architecture responsibilities.
- Broad understanding across multiple IT domains, including:
- Infrastructure and data center technologies
- Networking and connectivity
- Security
- Cloud technologies
- Enterprise applications
- Data and analytics
- Integrations and APIs
- Enterprise platforms and services
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, governance processes, and technical guardrails.
- Experience conducting architecture/design reviews and evaluating complex technology solutions.
- Strong documentation and technical artifact development skills.
- Ability to work effectively with principal engineers and subject-matter experts across multiple technology disciplines.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to understand complex technical environments without needing to personally implement or code every solution.
- Experience driving architecture initiatives from initial concept through implementation and delivery.
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