Consultant Principal Architect - Enterprise Architecture Process & Governance

Ascension Health Alliance; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascension Health Alliance seeks a Consultant Principal Architect for its Enterprise Architecture team. The role involves leading EA initiatives, managing architects, and collaborating with executive leadership to enhance technology solutions in a complex healthcare environment. Candidates should possess strong architecture knowledge, critical thinking skills, and a proven track record in IT architecture, particularly within healthcare.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Health insurance options

Retirement benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in IT architecture.
• Experience in healthcare IT preferred.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Architecture planning and governance.
• Provide consulting support to ensure compliance with architecture standards.
• Drive modernization of technology platforms and systems.

Skills

Architecture Governance

Executive presentation

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

TOGAF

Architecture modeling tools

Job description

Details

• Department:Clinical Experience
• Schedule:Monday - Friday, 8 hour shift
• Location:Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the interconnected domains of business, information, application, infrastructure, and security architectures that collectively implement the business capabilities required to accomplish business goals. Ascension Technologies Enterprise Architecture’s vision is to:

• Unify and drive the strategic plan through innovative, competitive, secure, resilient technology in alignment with Ascension’s mission
• Advocate for positive change and innovation to achieve Ascension’s targeted business outcomes
• Organize and drive efficiency across the current state architecture and architecture organization.

Ascension Technologies is seeking a Consultant Principal Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team focusedArchitecture Governance, Architecture Board, Architecture Backlog Management, Modelling, Knowledge Management, Brainstorming Workshops. The successful candidate will manage one or two Enterprise architects and partner with the business and other Ascension Technologies teams, bringing broad healthcare experience, strong architecture and technology knowledge, thought leadership and ability to deliver in a complex healthcare organization possessing a highly complex and diverse technology ecosystem.

Job Description:

Working collaboratively, the candidate will lead Enterprise Architecture focus Architecture EA Planning, EA Processes, Governance, Architecture Board, Architecture Backlog Management, Modelling, Knowledge Management, Brainstorming Workshops and evangelizing the value and outcomes of Enterprise architecture

The candidate will partner with Executive Leadership and Architecture Domain Leaders to enable success. They will also provide Executive Level Consulting and Guidance to Ascension senior leadership leveraging value-added scientifically based and technologically sound business and technology based insights and experience.

Working with other architects, the candidate provides consulting support to ensure that potential solutions being designed are platform oriented, decomposable, decoupled and fit into the broader service-oriented architecture landscape and technology ecosystem, meeting defined Enterprise Architecture standards.

The candidate also drives efforts to modernize technology platforms and systems, simplify application inventory to standardize technology solutions as well as reduce the overall technology portfolio based on key performance metrics and other business drivers.

The candidate works closely with Executive Leadership, Tower Architect Leaders and Lead Portfolio Architects and external sources as required. They provide education and insights on Emerging Technologies, AI and Cloud Technologies to foster broad awareness and leverage within existing and future initiatives and architecture efforts, where appropriate. They employ architecture design best practices including mentoring other architects to advance overall skill sets, knowledge and maturity.

Accountabilities: Detail by Level

• EA Planning
• Governance of Enterprise architecture significant initiatives
• Architecture Modelling
• Enterprise Architecture website content
• Community of Architecture Practice
• Design thinking workshops
• Architecture offsite and innovation events
• Document and refine current state architecture
• Identify pain points and modernization opportunities
• Supports Enterprise Architecture leadership in periodic updates and presentations to Ascension Technologies Executive teams and Ascension leadership forums on a broad array of topics, strategies and focus areas
• Leverages detailed Points of View (POV), employing a domain centric collaborative approach, providing architectural perspective and technology pattern recommendations for various Enterprise Architecture initiatives and other significant bodies of work as needed
• Compares and contrasts different enterprise level architecture configurations and patterns based on business value, operational resilience and cost considerations
• Supports the creation of strategic roadmaps that sequence technology initiatives based on business priorities and technical dependencies, aligning to the overall enterprise strategy
• Provides Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for Architecture Review Board (ARB) Governance and Standards including serving as an AT representative on organization AI governance bodies and forums
• Supports ad hoc Special Projects as assigned
• Possesses strong architecture modeling skills, experienced in leveraging Enterprise Architecture (EA) data models. Demonstrated ability to develop various diagrams and visuals leveraging data sets within the EA data model
• Applies critical thinking for the development of nuanced architecture views to meet specific needs given complexities of the existing technology ecosystem, providing actionable insights
• Applies strong expertise in multiple areas of architecture, including:
  
  • Business Architecture
  • Information & Data Architecture
  • Application Architecture
  • Technology Architecture
  • Security Architecture
• Responsible for architecting solutions crossing multiple domains or business areas
• Works closely with partners inside and outside IT and across business communities in understanding and assessing technology requirements, identifying potential technology solutions, always assessing existing technology investments as a first step
• Participates in cross-functional teams for developing and implementing new architectural patterns and standards. Works in conjunction with Enterprise Applications & Platforms, Data Delivery & Governance, Security, Legal, Compliance, Infrastructure, Product Engineering and other areas as necessary

Fundamental Skills & Abilities

• Managing Backlogs
• Executive presentation
• Architecture Review Board
• Design thinking workshops
• Able to lead C-level conversations with client stakeholders to ensure alignment of technology solutions that align with customer needs, while also leveraging existing enterprise capabilities and adherence to Key Enterprise Architecture Principles (KAPs)
• Establish and ensure system architecture and best practices of solutions with a strong focus on cloud platforms, AI/Gen AI, commercial systems and digital initiatives. This includes acting as the thought leader in driving and understanding customers’ end to end solutions on an enterprise scale and defining technology and processes that enable digital transformation
• Strong understanding of technology platforms and modern technologies/approaches to drive technology that is innovative, competitive, secure and resilient
• Exceptional communicator and presenter with excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to lead and influence cross functional teams to deliver and meet organizational needs in compressed timeframes
• Ability to quickly evaluate options, unlock enterprise challenges, make technology recommendations, and recommend solutions within a diverse technology environment with multiple stakeholders inside customers’ environments
• Ability to communicate broad business initiatives and translate them into measurable objectives and concrete goals for other architects
• Familiarity with working in an agile-based environment
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and gray spaces.
• Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, prioritization and relationship management skills
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, conflict management and decision making skills
• Ability to manage multiple work commitments, producing high quality work products under pressure and within deadlines

Requirements

Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree preferred.

Work Experience:

• 5 years of experience required.
• 10 years of experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

• Must have experience at a large technology products and services organization
• Five or more years experience in an information technology discipline with increasing responsibility
• Healthcare IT experience is highly preferred, ideally encompassing a broad range of business areas, care delivery settings, including related processes, integration and solution exposure
• Product Model and Agile experience preferred (at scale)
• Familiarity with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and architecture modeling tools (e.g. Abacus, IBIS, Orbus iServer, MEGA, LeanIX, etc.)

Why Join Our Team

When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 134,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.

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