Sr Director, Enterprise Architecture

Ascension Health Alliance; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascension Health Alliance seeks a Sr. Director for Enterprise Architecture to lead the Macro Architecture team. This role involves driving strategic technology initiatives across various business verticals, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and modernizing technology platforms. Candidates should possess extensive IT and architecture experience, with a focus on healthcare technology.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Health insurance options

Retirement benefits with employer match

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT and architecture with increasing responsibility.
• 3+ years in people management and architecture leadership.
• Healthcare IT experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Macro architecture team and drive strategic technology initiatives.
• Engage in strategic planning and influence technology investment decisions.
• Perform architectural gap analysis and develop standard architecture reference models.

Skills

Cloud Strategy

Micro Services

APIs

Data Strategy

AI Strategy

Critical Thinking

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or Associate's degree

High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of experience

Tools

Architecture modeling tools

Job description

Details

• Department:Clinical Experience
• Schedule:Monday - Friday, 8 hour shift
• Location:Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the interconnected domains of business, information, application, infrastructure, and security architectures that collectively implement the business capabilities required to accomplish business goals. Ascension Technologies Enterprise Architecture’s vision is to:

• Unify and drive the strategic plan through innovative, competitive, secure, resilient technology in alignment with Ascension’s mission.
• Advocate for positive change and innovation to achieve Ascension’s targeted business outcomes.
• Organize and drive efficiency across the current state architecture and architecture organization.

Ascension Technologies is seeking a Sr. Director - Enterprise Architecture to join the Enterprise Architecture team as the Lead for Macro Architecture, reporting to the AVP, Head of Architecture within Ascension Technologies. The successful candidate will direct the Macro architecture team, partner with the business and other Ascension Technologies teams, bringing broad healthcare experience, strong architecture and technology knowledge, thought leadership and ability to deliver in a complex healthcare organization possessing a highly complex and diverse technology ecosystem.

Role Summary:

The candidate will lead Enterprise Architecture (and the macro architecture team) focus across multiple business (verticals) and technology service (horizontals), establishing the Domain Vision and Strategies.

This includes driving the holistic multi cloud strategy, Micro Services strategy, AI Governance strategy and oversight for Enterprise Architecture Significant Initiatives.
The candidate will provide Executive Level Consulting and Guidance to Ascension senior leadership leveraging value-added scientifically based and technologically sound business and technology based insights and experience.

The candidate will also seek to modernize technology platforms and systems, simplify application inventory to standardize technology solutions as well as reduce the overall technology portfolio based on key performance metrics and other business drivers.

The candidate works closely with Executive Leadership, the broad architecture community and external sources as required to drive tangible outcomes.

Accountabilities:

• Provide oversight and leadership regarding strategic direction, activities and resources for assigned departments. Influence direction of assigned new and existing programs and systems.
• Engage early as part of strategic planning efforts or when a complex business technology need is first identified.
• Help assess the need, employing an enterprise level view, looking through a business-capability lens, leading and documenting key architectural, process, integration and cost considerations.
• Create a unified point of view to inform and guide technology investment decision-making and address unnecessary technology sprawl.
• Employ a consistent approach, leading the Macro Architecture team in the development of standard architecture reference models, capturing strategic goals and objectives, value drivers, KPIs, metrics, business capabilities and other foundational components that can enable Ascension strategic imperatives.
• Perform architectural gap analysis, as part of capturing the current (‘as-is’) and target (‘to-be’) architectures.
• Leverage detailed Points of View (POV), employing a domain centric collaborative approach, providing architectural perspective and technology pattern recommendations for Enterprise Architecture Significant initiatives and other significant bodies of work as needed.
• Supports the creation of strategic roadmaps that sequence technology initiatives based on business priorities and technical dependencies, aligning to the overall enterprise strategy.
• Provides Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for Architecture Review Board (ARB) Governance and Standards.
• Applies strong expertise in multiple areas of architecture, including:
  
  • Business Architecture
  • Information & Data Architecture
  • Application Architecture
  • Technology Architecture
  • Security Architecture

Fundamental Skills & Abilities:

• Strong Cloud, Micro Services, APIs, Data and AI strategy skills.
• Ability to lead C-level conversations with client stakeholders to ensure technology solutions that align with customer needs, while also leveraging existing enterprise capabilities and adhering to Key Enterprise Architecture Principles (KAPs).
• Ability to be hands on as well as direct the team to drive time to value, clear business outcomes and value.
• Strong ‘presentation, communication and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to act as a thought leader in understanding consumer needs, experience and business objective to champion end to end solutions on an enterprise scale and drive digital transformation.
• Strong understanding of technology platforms and modern technologies/approaches to drive technology that is innovative, competitive, secure and resilient.
• Ability to quickly evaluate options, unlock enterprise challenges, make technology recommendations, and recommend solutions within a diverse technology environment with multiple stakeholders inside customers’ environments.
• Ability to communicate broad business initiatives and translate them into measurable objectives and concrete goals for other architects.
• Familiarity with working in an product model and agile development based environment
  Comfortable working with ambiguity and gray spaces.
• Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, conflict management, prioritization and relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple work commitments, producing high quality work products under pressure and within deadlines.
  
  

Requirements

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management.

Additional Preferences

• Ten plus years in information technology and architecture with increasing responsibility.
• Three plus years in people management and architecture leadership.
• Healthcare IT experience is preferred.
• Industry Cloud and AI certifications preferred.
• Product model and Agile experience preferred (at scale).
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and architecture modeling tools (e.g. Abacus, IBIS, Orbus iServer, MEGA, LeanIX, etc.) preferred.

Why Join Our Team

When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 134,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.

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