Sentara Health · 6 hours ago
PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Clinical Systems
Sentara Health is a healthcare organization that provides quality outpatient services to the surrounding community. The Principal Enterprise Architect will lead the development and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks, focusing on clinical systems to enhance efficiency and productivity across the organization.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Provides strategic and technical leadership in the development and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks that align information systems, infrastructure, and applications with business processes and data
Enables improved efficiency, scalability, and productivity across the organization by ensuring technology investments support current and future business and clinical objectives
Leads the analysis of the current IT environment to identify gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities, and defines target-state architectures, reference models, standards, patterns, and roadmaps that guide enterprise transformation
Evaluates system interactions, dependencies, total cost of ownership, and return on investment to inform architectural decisions and technology direction
Collaborates across application, domain, solution, infrastructure, and security architecture teams to deliver balanced, enterprise-wide architectural outcomes
Provides governance oversight, mentors architects and engineers, and serves as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural strategy, cloud adoption, and emerging technologies
Qualification
Required
8+ years of relevant experience with a degree
10+ years of relevant experience without a degree
Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture
Five or more years of experience in Software development
Proven experience in designing and architecting solutions and processes, preferably in a large-scale healthcare organization (hospital)
Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, security, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
Deep knowledge of value stream maps, persona development, design thinking, customer journey, etc
Experience in technologies such as mobile, AI, data center, infrastructure, cloud (Azure, AWS), data streaming, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing and digital experiences technologies
Experience in Patient care, Clinical Support, Pharmacy and Revenue cycle management applications is required (e.g., Epic, PACS, Waystar etc.)
Experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, draw.io, SharePoint, Mural etc
Experience with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman, FEAF etc
Experience modeling architecture viewpoints in EA tools
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree Preferred
AWS/Azure/Google Professional Architect
Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA)
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision plans
Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
Emergency Backup Care
Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
Life Insurance
401k/403B with Employer Match
Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met
Company
Sentara Health
Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission - "we improve health every day." Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S.
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