Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sentara Health is a healthcare organization seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to provide strategic and technical leadership in enterprise architecture. The role focuses on clinical systems, defining target-state architectures and technology roadmaps, evaluating IT environments and investments, and advising leadership on cloud adoption and emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- The Principal Enterprise Architect 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
- This role enables improved efficiency, scalability, and productivity across the organization by ensuring technology investments support current and future business and clinical objectives
- The Principal Enterprise Architect 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
- This role evaluates system interactions, dependencies, total cost of ownership, and return on investment to inform architectural decisions and technology direction
- With a primary focus on Clinical Systems, and supporting other enterprise initiatives as capacity allows, the Principal Enterprise Architect collaborates across application, domain, solution, infrastructure, and security architecture teams to deliver balanced, enterprise-wide architectural outcomes
- The role provides governance oversight, mentors architects and engineers, and serves as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural strategy, cloud adoption, and emerging technologies
Skills
- 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
- Bachelor's Degree Preferred
- 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
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
- The opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met
- Remote work available
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