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Ascension · 11 hours ago

Sr. Director, Enterprise Solution Architecture

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$146K/yr - $248K/yr

5+ years exp

Ascension is a healthcare organization committed to providing compassionate care. They are seeking a Sr. Director of Enterprise Solution Architecture to lead the design of solution architecture for large enterprise-wide programs and manage a team of Enterprise Solution Architects, ensuring successful deployment and alignment with business goals.

CharityHealth CareHospitalNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

The Sr Director, Enterprise Solutions Architect will be the overall responsible leader for 'Enterprise Solution Architecture' - Designing the solution architecture for large Enterprise wide programs and initiatives across Ascension Technologies

The Sr Direct will manage a team of Enterprise solution architects

Enterprise Solution Architects (ESAs) are solution architects focused on broad, cross cutting Enterprise level initiatives. They work on identifying and designing holistic technology solutions to enterprise grade business problems, working collaboratively across the organization and in tandem with key sponsors, business leaders, program leaders, architects and delivery leads

ESAs need a high level understanding of healthcare business to capture both functional and nonfunctional requirements for high level solutioning. ESAs provide the conceptual and logical frameworks that are executed by project teams. This role provides the continuity from early conception to solutioning to deployment. In the latter area, the ESA is responsible to set the project teams up for success with a strong technical structure and to provide guidance if issues present that deviate from the solution principles

ESAs also work with technical and business focused portfolios to evaluate the backlog of work, and recommend the technical sequencing of future work

ESAs work across COTS products, infrastructure, data, internal product development, integration, security and AI as needed per assigned solution work

As a player and coach, working collaboratively, the candidate will partner with Portfolio Executives, Portfolio Leaders and Enterprise Architects to provide technical leadership for a portfolio of work and/or large, complex enterprise initiatives

The candidate also drives efforts 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

Candidates need to be comfortable working in a highly matrixed environment and self-driving on deliverables. There is tremendous opportunity for self-starters to influence the templates and deliverables that will drive value for Ascension Technologies business customers

ESAs are exposed to the most important and complex initiatives at Ascension. As such, the ability to conduct executive level conversations and presentations is required

As a player-coach provide overall leadership for enterprise solution architecture; manage a team of ESAs

Problem solving abilities spanning COTS systems, cloud infrastructure, data and AI

Identify pain points and modernization opportunities

Creates detailed Points of View (POV), employing a domain centric collaborative approach, providing architectural perspective and technology pattern recommendations for various Enterprise Architecture initiatives and other significant bodies of work as needed

Compares and contrasts different enterprise level architecture configurations and patterns based on business value, operational resilience and cost considerations

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 including serving as an AT representative on organization AI governance bodies and forums

Possesses strong architecture modeling skills, experienced in leveraging Enterprise Architecture (EA) data models. Demonstrated ability to develop various diagrams and visuals leveraging data sets within the EA data model

Applies critical thinking for the development of nuanced architecture views to meet specific needs given complexities of the existing technology ecosystem, providing actionable insights

Applies strong expertise in multiple areas of architecture, including: Business Architecture, Information & Data Architecture, Application Architecture, Technology Architecture, Security Architecture

Responsible for architecting solutions crossing multiple domains or business areas

Accountable for an understanding of enterprise's architecture, ie. MDM products, Integration Engines and ESL, microservices, key platform capabilities, hyperscaler/cloud capabilities

Works closely with partners inside and outside IT and across business communities in understanding and assessing technology requirements, identifying potential technology solutions, always assessing existing technology investments as a first step

Participates in cross-functional teams for developing and implementing new architectural patterns and standards. Works in conjunction with Enterprise Applications & Platforms, Data Delivery & Governance, Security, Legal, Compliance, Infrastructure, Product Engineering and other areas as necessary

Qualification

Enterprise SolutioningArchitecture ModelingHealthcare IT ExperienceTechnical LeadershipAgile MethodologiesTOGAF FamiliarityPeople ManagementExecutive PresenceExceptional CommunicationCritical ThinkingProblem Solving

Required

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