Medline · 4 hours ago
Architect IT
Northbrook, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$133K/yr - $199K/yr
5+ years expMedline is a global healthcare company seeking a Generalist Architect for their corporate functions portfolio. The role involves creating solution designs for new capabilities and leading operational initiatives, including technical upgrades and support for outages.
Consumer GoodsHealth CareHospitalityManufacturingMedical
Responsibilities
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings and drive targeted business outcomes while maintaining alignment with the overall enterprise architecture
Collaborates with management, business leaders, IT architecture, and other stakeholders to connect the business roadmap with operational decisions
Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture
Produces expert analysis, research, and designs for technical solutions that enable business capabilities, processes, and functions
Stays abreast of current technology trends both in the industry as a whole and with the applications deployed in the landscape. Leads Technical Design, Analysis, Development and Delivery
Leads evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards
Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all architecture design and analysis work
Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information) in a way that is directly actionable, clear and unambiguous
Works closely with the product owners and project/product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle
Provides consulting support to application teams to ensure the project/product is aligned with the overall enterprise, solution, and application architectures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, systems engineering or a related study
At least 5 years of experience with multiple IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
Experience with Cloud technologies; designing and building applications for the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Experience with ERP and middleware applications (such as SAP, Oracle, SAP IS, SAP AEM, Talend)
Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
Experience with various software development technologies (such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, .NET, PHP, ABAP)
Experience with various database technologies (such as MSSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, HANA)
Experience developing system designs, strategies, evaluations, and roadmaps
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical staff at all levels of the organization
Solid understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
Strong leadership skills
Excellent analytical and technical skills
Excellent planning and organizational skills
Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making
Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security
Ability to understand and apply various diagraming and modeling techniques
Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those technologies to evolving business and operating models
Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams
Strong understanding of the company's processes, organization, customers, and business models
Preferred
Experience in working with multi-site global teams
4+ years of DevSecOps experience –including unit testing, CI/CD, security compliance, functional/performance/stress test automation
Experience architecting secure applications for Healthcare and are familiar with PHI, PII, and HIPAA compliance requirements
Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes
Ability to balance the long-term (big picture) and short-term implications of individual decisions
Ability to remain unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice, and is more interested in results than personal preferences
Understanding and knowledge of an Agile system development life cycle methodology (such as Scrum at Scale, SAFe, Kanban, etc.)
Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams
Ability to understand the long-term ('big picture') and short-term perspectives of situations and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes
Ability to estimate the financial impact of technology alternatives
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of existing, new and emerging technologies that enable and drive new business designs and models
Benefits
Health insurance
Life and disability
401(k) contributions
Paid time off
Company
Medline
Medline is the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$0.5MKey Investors
North Carolina Department of Commerce
2025-12-17IPO
2021-06-05Private Equity
2019-09-12Grant· $0.5M
Leadership Team
Steve Miller
Chief Operating Officer
Amanda Laabs
Chief Product Officer
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