PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Clinical Systems

Sentara Health; United States; On-site; USD 161,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Paid Time Off

Tuition Assistance

Life and disability insurance

401k/403(b) with employer match

Job summary

Sentara Health seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise architecture efforts with a focus on clinical systems. You will define target architectures, standards, and roadmaps, aligning IT with business and clinical objectives while guiding cloud adoption and governance.

The role requires deep experience across IT disciplines, strong leadership, and the ability to mentor teams in a large healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.
• Five or more years of experience in Software development.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Knowledge of TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman or FEAF frameworks.
• Experience with healthcare applications (Epic, PACS, Waystar, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for enterprise architecture.
• Develop target-state architectures, standards, and roadmaps.
• Govern architecture governance and mentor architects and engineers.
• Collaborate across application, domain, solution, and security teams.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud expertise

Architecture frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred

Tools

Confluence

Jira

draw.io

SharePoint

Mural

Job description

City/State Virginia Beach, VA Work Shift First (Days)

Overview

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides strategic and technical leadership in the development and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks that align information systems, infrastructure, and applications with business processes and data. This role enables improved efficiency, scalability, and productivity across the organization by ensuring technology investments support current and future business and clinical objectives. The Principal Enterprise Architect leads the analysis of the current IT environment to identify gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities, and defines target-state architectures, reference models, standards, patterns, and roadmaps that guide enterprise transformation. This role evaluates system interactions, dependencies, total cost of ownership, and return on investment to inform architectural decisions and technology direction. With a primary focus on Clinical Systems, and supporting other enterprise initiatives as capacity allows, the Principal Enterprise Architect collaborates across application, domain, solution, infrastructure, and security architecture teams to deliver balanced, enterprise-wide architectural outcomes. The role provides governance oversight, mentors architects and engineers, and serves as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural strategy, cloud adoption, and emerging technologies.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Certification/Licensure

Preferred AWS/Azure/Google Professional Architect, Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA).

Experience Requirements

Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.

Five or more years of experience in Software development.

Proven experience in designing and architecting solutions and processes, preferably in a large-scale healthcare organization (hospital).

Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, security, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.

Deep knowledge of value stream maps, persona development, design thinking, customer journey, etc.

Experience in technologies such as mobile, AI, data center, infrastructure, cloud (Azure, AWS), data streaming, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing and digital experiences technologies.

Experience in Patient care, Clinical Support, Pharmacy and Revenue cycle management applications is required (e.g., Epic, PACS, Waystar etc.).

Experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, draw.io, SharePoint, Mural etc.,

Experience with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman, FEAF etc.

Experience modeling architecture viewpoints in EA tools.

Compensation

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay range for full-time employment is $160,513.60 - $238,409.60 annually. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call pay, shift premiums, extra-shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. Note: If an annual salary is posted, it is based on a full-time colleague working 2,080 hours annually. Sentara offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off (vacation, sick time, and holidays); paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.

Benefits

Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan

Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Independence provides quality outpatient services to the surrounding community. The facility includes an ambulance-accessible emergency room that is supported by board-certified physicians. Sentara Independence houses state-of-the-art medical equipment and highly-skilled physicians and staff. Sentara Independence is now an extension of the quality services at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital including advanced imaging and physical therapy. Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Sentara Health is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that has been in business for over 131 years. Offering hundreds of sites of care including 12 hospitals, PACE, home health, hospice, medical groups, imaging services, therapy, outpatient surgery centers, and an 858,000 member health plan. The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara ‘Employer of Choice’ for over ten years. U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years. Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!