Healthcare Technology Solutions Architect

Kaiser Permanente; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, seeks a Senior Healthcare Technology Solutions Architect to lead the IT strategy and enterprise architecture across clinical applications and data integration. This role partners with executives to translate business goals into architectural directions and roadmaps, driving standards and transformation programs that support patient care priorities.

The candidate will guide architecture development, mentor teams, and ensure alignment with

Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years experience with modeling techniques (e.g., BPMN, UML, ER).
• Minimum four (4) years experience translating solution requirements into technical architecture requirements.
• Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, Business, or related technical field and Minimum ten (10) years IT experience delivering technical solutions, including at least Minimum four (4) years in IT architecture. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Leads development of the architecture strategy and technology direction over technical domains by collaborating with executives to translate business and IT objectives into architectural approach.
• Provides expertise and shares an understanding of current capability gaps, architectural gaps, and market and industry trends that can be used to set future direction.
• Leads the definition and communication of architecture standards, guidelines, and statements of direction by providing expertise and guidance to architects on the design and establishment of architecture standards to ensure alignment with IT strategy and target architecture.

Skills

Ambiguity management

Attention to Detail

Business Knowledge

Communication

Critical Thinking

Cross-Group Collaboration

Decision Making

Dependability

Diversity and Inclusion Support

Drives Results

Facilitation Skills

Health Care Industry

Influencing Others

Integrity

Learning Agility

Organizational Savvy

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Topic-Specific Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, Business, or related technical field

Tools

BPMN

UML

ER Modeling

Job description

A Solutions Architect for clinical applications within a healthcare organization bridges the gap between technology and care by driving clinical engagement, capturing vital voice of the customer requirements to optimize solutions alongside vendors and Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) partners. They play a critical role in solving complex interoperability challenges, ensuring seamless interfacing and integration between clinical applications and the Electronic Health Record (EHR). To support efficient, cost-effective application maintenance, they maintain a strict focus on enterprise standardization and workflow alignment. They are fully responsible for documenting workflows and end-to-end architectural designs. Additionally, the Solutions Architect actively participates in Enterprise Architecture reviews to research, analyze, document, and recommend application standards that govern and future-proof the organization's technology landscape.

Job Summary:

This senior level individual contributor is primarily responsible for leading development of the IT strategic technology direction over technical domains and developing the IT enterprise architecture, while ensuring alignment on IT architecture and technology direction across business and IT leaders.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

• Leads development of the architecture strategy and technology direction over technical domains by collaborating with executives to translate business and IT objectives into architectural approach.

• Provides expertise and shares an understanding of current capability gaps, architectural gaps, and market and industry trends that can be used to set future direction.

• Leads the definition and communication of architecture standards, guidelines, and statements of direction by providing expertise and guidance to architects on the design and establishment of architecture standards to ensure alignment with IT strategy and target architecture.

• Reviews, contributes to, and approves architecture standards or controls which allow business needs to be met.

• Develops and establishes architectural best practices that guide the design of technology solutions.

• Develops and maintains the architecture for assigned domain(s) (for example, data, infrastructure), and takes accountability for ensuring alignment with IT strategy and target state architecture.

• Provides the vision for strategic roadmaps to align business, applications, data, integration, and/or infrastructure architecture.

• Manages the development of transition plans for moving from the current to the target state architecture.

• Provides consulting to architects on developing architecture designs.

• Helps create the vision for adopting new high-impact technologies by researching technical trends and developments.

• Partners with IT and business senior leadership to facilitate and influence decisions regarding technology investment.

• Drives innovation across the team using a deep understanding of how enterprise architecture works within the organization.

• Takes accountability for ensuring adoption of architecture best practices for assigned domain(s) and educates others throughout the organization on the function of architecture methodologies, governance, and standards by serving as a subject matter expert across business and/or IT teams, and presenting to internal and external audiences, including senior leadership.

• Builds partnerships with architects and other stakeholders to facilitate the continuous development and drive consensus on changes to the companys architecture practices.

• Takes accountability for ensuring appropriate reporting to executives, business leaders, and IT management to communicate the impact of architecture practices.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

• Attention to Detail

• Business Knowledge

• Communication

• Critical Thinking

• Cross-Group Collaboration

• Decision Making

• Dependability

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support

• Drives Results

• Facilitation Skills

• Health Care Industry

• Influencing Others

• Integrity

• Learning Agility

• Organizational Savvy

• Problem Solving

• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall

• Teamwork

• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Analytical Skills

• Application Design, Architecture

• Business Acumen

• Client Focus

• Client and Domain Knowledge

• Creating Architecture Clarity

• Demonstrating Personal Flexibility

• Information Architecture

• Information Gathering

• Innovative Mindset

• Managing Diverse Relationships

• Mentoring and Coaching

• Modeling

• Organizational Skills

• Prioritization

• Project Estimation

• Project Management

• Software Development Life Cycle

• Solution Delivery

• System and Technology Integration

• Technical Communication

• Technical Documentation

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience with modeling techniques (e.g., BPMN, UML, ER).

• Minimum four (4) years experience translating solution requirements into technical architecture requirements.

• Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, Business, or related technical field and Minimum ten (10) years IT experience delivering technical solutions, including at least Minimum four (4) years in IT architecture. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years supervisory experience.

• Three (3) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Healthcare Technology Solutions Architect

LOCATION: Portland, Oregon

REQNUMBER: 1443265

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.