Lead Enterprise Healthcare Architect

Life in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh (Allegheny County)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Pittsburgh Tomorrow seeks a highly experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to drive technology strategy and innovation in the healthcare payer domain. You will translate strategic intent into roadmaps, reduce technical debt, and champion rationalization initiatives to deliver scalable and cost-efficient solutions.

Join a cross-functional team to define AI solution strategies and oversee architecture governance while mentoring junior architects and influencing enterprise-wide standards.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or closely related field is required.
Seven years of experience in information technology discipline and seven years in business discipline.
Experience designing and governing complex enterprise architectures, solutions, integration patterns, and technology strategies.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic consultation to business stakeholders in defining and designing processes and structures.
Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development and portfolio planning.
Specify and design large-scale, complex systems and architectures.
Lead reviews of system designs for technology selection and enterprise standards.
Lead AI solution strategy, API management, and security architecture initiatives.
Coach and mentor architects and developers; deliver presentations on complex issues.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Leadership

AI strategy

API management

Integration architecture

Security architecture

Application rationalization

Technical debt reduction

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

IMS

DB2

Oracle

Teradata

Hadoop

SQL

SAS

Cognos

Java

Pega

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Lead Enterprise Healthcare Architect to drive technology strategy and innovation. This pivotal role designs, develops, and optimizes enterprise architecture strategies, with a deep focus on industry-leading technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), API management, integration architecture, and security architecture. The successful candidate will translate strategic intent into actionable architectural roadmaps, proactively reduce technical debt, and champion application rationalization initiatives to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and resilient solutions. This individual will define and drive AI solution strategies and collaborate extensively with other architects to ensure cohesive designs that align with strategic objectives and enable seamless execution. This role requires extensive healthcare payer industry experience, a strong understanding of emerging technologies, and the ability to provide strategic consultation and mentorship. The Lead Enterprise Architect will leverage business and technology insights to enable or transform critical business processes, practices, organizational capabilities, and systems in support of the long-term strategic vision.

Primary Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Business Architecture

Provide strategic consultation to business stakeholders in defining and designing business processes, functions, and organizational structures. Research, identify, and internally champion enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements.
Facilitate development of highly complex enterprise business solutions by combining knowledge of business processes, operational challenges, technology options, and process-facilitation techniques.
Lead and participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value-case development, and business innovation portfolio planning.
Use business and technology insights to enable or transform critical processes, practices, organizational capabilities, and systems.

Architecture, Solution Design & Governance

Specify and design large-scale and highly complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, and processes.
Select appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively across architecture and delivery teams.
Lead reviews of system designs to validate technology selection, efficient use of resources, integration across systems, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Establish policies for the selection of architecture components and conduct impact analysis for major design options.
Ensure system architectures balance functional requirements, service quality, security, operability, and systems-management requirements.
Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to develop complex architectures and translate requirements into detailed solution designs for implementation.
Provide expert guidance on system development and integration, including change requests, deviations from specifications, and adherence to relevant business and technology strategies, policies, standards, and practices.

Requirements, Improvement & Innovation

Select and apply tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate functional and non-functional requirements, user characteristics, and business tasks.
Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environments in which complex products and systems will operate.
Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, assuming accountability for work quality, solution appropriateness, and realization of measurable business benefits.
Modify existing process-improvement approaches or develop new methods to achieve sustainable improvement.
Lead AI solution strategy, API management, integration architecture, security architecture, application rationalization, and technical-debt reduction initiatives.

Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

Lead resolution of complex architecture and business challenges and serve as the technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.
Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and manage expectations across customers, partners, and management.
Participate in customer walkthroughs, planning sessions, design and technical reviews, problem resolution, and decision-making activities.
Collaborate with departments across the organization, including developing and interpreting highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.
Maintain in-depth knowledge of designated technical domains and provide expert advice regarding their application.
Provide architecture leadership, coaching, mentoring, and ad hoc training to architects, developers, management, and business users.
Prepare and deliver presentations on complex issues within the area of expertise and promote consistency with strategic direction.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a closely related field.
No education substitutions are specified.

Experience

Seven years of experience in an information technology discipline.
Seven years of experience in a business discipline.
Demonstrated experience designing and governing complex enterprise architectures, solutions, integration patterns, and technology strategies.
Ability to translate strategic intent into actionable architecture roadmaps and implementation designs.

Required Licenses & Certifications

None.

Preferred Qualifications

Education & Industry Experience

Master's degree.
Healthcare payer or health insurance industry business knowledge.

Certifications

TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
Certifications relevant to Artificial Intelligence, API management, integration architecture, or security architecture.
Technology certifications such as Java Developer, DB2, Cognos, Pega, or Enterprise Architect (SCEA).
Project Management certification.

Technical Skills & Knowledge

The Lead Enterprise Architect is not expected to have hands‑on experience with every technology listed below. The role must demonstrate the capabilities needed to support the assigned application and architecture portfolio. The preferred required skills are listed below:

Architecture & Delivery