CHRISTUS Health · 4 hours ago
ServiceNow Architect II-IM Application Development
Irving, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expCHRISTUS Health is focused on providing excellent healthcare services, and they are seeking an IT Architect II to design and implement IT systems. This role involves leading architecture design initiatives, evaluating system acquisitions, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of implemented systems.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Assists in the development of the information system vision and strategy of the organization; assists in the development, implementation, communication, and promotion of strategic and tactical plans
Researches and participates in beta testing of new systems and technologies in order to better evaluate their suitability to the CHRISTUS environment
Evaluates proposed system acquisitions and provides critical input to the decision-making process relative to compatibility, cost, resource requirements, operations, and maintenance; develops plans and recommendations to improve the performance and efficiency of assigned systems; addresses all aspects of assigned systems, including hardware, software, outside services, etc.; considers cost-effectiveness, budget, and other resource issues in addition to technical issues; develops and implements standards and procedures for multiple areas of technology
Participates in development of standards, design and implementation of proactive processes to collect and report data and statistics on assigned systems; performs research and testing to verify impact and advisability of system installations; assists in development vendor support relationships
Maintains in-depth knowledge and current certification in various areas of information technology
Responsible for infrastructure design, performance modeling and capacity planning
Independently provides guidance and leadership on architecture design initiatives
Demonstrates ability to lead team through complex system design and implementation initiatives
Ensures architectures are flexible and support the business needs by maintaining an understanding of business strategies and infrastructure capabilities
Works with various technical resources across the team to facilitate the development of technical standards
Possesses communication skills and ability to develop and present solutions to all levels of management, including executive levels
Participates in requirements gathering, discovery, and interfacing with technical and business teams - establishing credibility in terms of experience, presentation and leadership of solutions development
Evaluates proposed new systems, system changes and additions, provides oversight into the decision process
Quickly and decisively acts in fast changing, unpredictable situations, shows tremendous amount of initiative in tough situations, is exceptional at spotting and seizing opportunities, proactively plans projects and tasks within application
Applies advanced level understanding of assigned clinical/business operations, processes, and workflows. Discusses, and identifies dependencies with project team members and stakeholders. Maintains collaborative customer relationships; Ensures the needs of the customer are fully represented in all updates
Reviews and provides feedback on documentation written by others. Articulates issues and complex concepts in appropriate manner based on the audience
Possesses the skill to develop strong and positive relationships with management at all levels
Demonstrates an advanced level of business strategies understanding, applies expertise to help meet customer goals and outcomes. Tackles new problems using experimentation, including successes and failure experiences. Creative problem solving beyond standard recommendations and practice
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Architecture, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering or related field preferred, or four years of relevant experience required
Extensive technical knowledge of Healthcare Hospital systems, databases, networks, operating systems and Information Management 'Best Practices', including: local and wide area networking, network protocols and routing; network, server, and host operating systems; Interoperability, data storage and retrieval systems; system backup and recovery; IP networking, internet and intranet technologies; email, groupware, office automation and collaboration technologies; voice and/or data communications; voice and/or data networking; video conferencing and telemedicine; server hardware, software, and administration
Project Management
Technical and Analytical
Problem solving
Leadership
Multi-tasking ability
Time Management
Vision
Five years of increasingly responsible Enterprise architecture experience in Healthcare Hospital systems environments with a wide variety of Information Services applications and technologies is required. Also requires specialized technical and procedural knowledge of system hardware/software, system administration, operations, problem identification/resolution, system documentation, and project management
Experience in of SDLC, Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Business process analysis and design, and service delivery, particularly with respect to the use of information, EMR, ERP and CRM systems
Security model understanding and maintenance
Solid understanding of Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse environment with involvement in design and development of database solution in both traditional as well as columnar databases
Experience in data integration with ETL techniques and frameworks
Experience in Big Data querying tools, such as Hive, Impala and Spark SQL
Company
CHRISTUS Health
CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic not-for-profit health care system comprising more than 600 centers, including long-term care facilities, community hospitals, walk-in clinics and health ministries.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
CHRISTUS Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (43)
2024 (35)
2023 (54)
2022 (46)
2021 (22)
2020 (26)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Terry Kyle
CEO and CDO The Children's Hospital of San Antonio Foundation & Friends of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Fnd
Thomas Royer, MD
CEO Emeritus
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