Remote Infrastructure Enterprise Architect — Strategy & Governance

BJC HealthCare; Missouri; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Health insurance

Job summary

BJC HealthCare seeks an Infrastructure Enterprise Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership across the enterprise. This remote role covers MO or IL, guiding architecture principles and roadmaps rather than project-level design.

The position emphasizes governance and cross-domain alignment with business strategy. Ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT with 5+ years in architecture roles, strong executive communication, and broad cloud/data/security/infra knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; master’s degree is a plus.
• 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in architecture roles spanning multiple technology or business domains.
• Demonstrated experience with architecture principles, governance models, reference architectures, portfolio analysis, modernization planning, and business capability-based planning.
• Broad knowledge across cloud, integration, data, security, infrastructure, and applications, with the ability to operate with breadth rather than deep implementation ownership.
• Strong working knowledge of architecture governance, cross-domain dependency management, and arbitrating architectural conflicts.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and influence skills in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates to develop current state, future state architectures and implementation plans. Mentors solution architects in architecture development and execution of architecture processes. Reviews proposed architectures and provides guidance for mitigation of critical issues.
• Researches and collaborates with teams to identify relevant technology change drivers and opportunities that will impact the enterprise environment. Leads and mentors enterprise proof‑of‑concept efforts to insure alignment with business requirements and key principles. Develops technology roadmaps which have organizational support and commitment. Develops and presents planning, status and guidance documents that are audience appropriate.
• Develops enterprise and domain reference architectures and processes to provide technical guidance. Reviews and mentors architecture reviews and provides guidance for mitigation of critical issues. Facilitates and mentors solution development and implementation of strategic efforts as needed.
• Collaborates with technical teams and SMEs in the development, maintenance and publication of technology standards. Collaborates with multi‑domain technology working groups to identify key issues and develop solution plans. Collaborates in events focused on information and perspective sharing with internal and external technology leaders and experts.
• Actively identifies and engages in efforts to assist with process guidance and information evaluation. Develops and shares processes that allow for consistent execution of analysis and decision‑making efforts.

Skills

Architecture governance

Cross-domain architecture

Executive communication

Cloud breadth

Data, security, infra breadth

Portfolio analysis

Reference architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Master's degree is a plus

Tools

Azure

Job description

BJC HealthCare seeks an Infrastructure Enterprise Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership across the enterprise. This remote role covers MO or IL, guiding architecture principles and roadmaps rather than project-level design.

The position emphasizes governance and cross-domain alignment with business strategy. Ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT with 5+ years in architecture roles, strong executive communication, and broad cloud/data/security/infra knowledge.