Enterprise Architect

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus (OH)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A major healthcare institution based in Columbus is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in aligning technology with business strategies. Responsibilities include managing stakeholder relationships and driving innovation within IT. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, with preference for a Master's, and relevant certifications. Join a team focused on transforming healthcare technology to enhance operational effectiveness.

Qualifications

12 years of relevant experience required; 15+ years preferred.
Experience in at least 5 disciplines, such as business, analytics, and architecture.
Ability to balance long-term and short-term decision implications.

Responsibilities

Align business and IT across the democratized IT landscape.
Engage with business and IT stakeholders.
Analyze trends and disruptions to assess impacts.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strategic planning

Collaboration

Innovative thinking

Business language skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master’s preferred

Certification in TOGAF or Zachman

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

AWS

Job description

Overview

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The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners, and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect helps the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. The enterprise architect will have significant business knowledge of multiple industries, such as healthcare, financial services, the management consulting environment, and how technology can be introduced to enable workflows and functionality.

Key focus areas include data and analytics, the Internet of Everything (IoE), artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent hospital architecture, security, cloud technologies, applications, frameworks, and governance. Collaborates with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions and blueprints align with the overall Enterprise strategic plan within IT. Partner with business architecture, enterprise architecture, product capabilities, and other senior IT leaders to plan the overall innovation pipeline, including capital investment and the associated business case.

Responsibilities

Facilitate alignment between business and IT across the democratized IT landscape.
Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
Adapt to changing business and operating models.
Analyze trends and disruptions and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
Support various operating models, such as project-centric and product-centric.
Communicate the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services.
Drive the evolution of the EA team services and operating model.
Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers, and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.
Be trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
Operate professionally with executives and respond diplomatically.
Collaborate effectively and support the business and its strategies.
Be highly innovative with foresight, systems thinking, and design thinking.
Be vendor- and technology-neutral; focus on achieving targeted business outcomes over personal preferences.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Master’s preferred. Advanced degree may be required.
12 years of relevant experience required; 15+ years preferred.
A minimum of 12 years collaborating with business leaders in strategic/operations planning and/or as an enterprise architecture consultant.
A minimum of 12 years of experience in at least 5 disciplines (e.g., business, information, solution/technical architecture, data & analytics, applications, cloud, middleware, information analysis, database management, operations).
Certification in TOGAF or Zachman AND either Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect (required or to be obtained within 6 months of employment).
CISSP, CCSP or CISM preferred.
Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills; highly contextual and politically savvy within the enterprise.
Ability to balance long-term and short-term implications of decisions and estimate financial impact of EA alternatives.
Rapidly grasps new technologies; able to think and act innovatively to drive digital strategies.
Strong business language skills with excellent written, verbal, and presentation abilities for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Hiring for two positions.

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Location and status

Columbus, OH

Seniority level