Sr. Director, Enterprise Solution Architect - Ascension : Job Details

• Department: Clinical Experience
• Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8 hour shift
• Location: Remote

Paid time off (PTO) Various health insurance options & wellness plans Retirement benefits including employer match plans Long-term & short-term disability Employee assistance programs (EAP) Parental leave & adoption assistance Tuition reimbursement Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance, location and salary range at the time of the offer.

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.

Role Summary 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.

Accountabilities: Detail by Level

• 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.

Fundamental Skills & Abilities

• People management
• Enterprise Solutioning
• Executive presence
• Strong understanding of technology platforms and modern technologies/approaches to drive technology that is innovative, competitive, secure and resilient
• Exceptional communicator and presenter with excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to lead and influence cross functional teams to deliver and meet organizational needs in compressed timeframes
• Ability to quickly evaluate options, unlock enterprise challenges, make technology recommendations, and recommend solutions within a diverse technology environment with multiple stakeholders inside customers' environments
• Familiarity with working in an agile-based environment
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and gray spaces
• Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, prioritization and relationship management skills
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, conflict management and decision making skills
• Ability to manage multiple work commitments, producing high quality work products under pressure and within deadlines

Education:

• 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.

• 10 or more years of architecture experience; experience working in a large global IT environment strongly preferred
• Five or more years experience in an information technology discipline with increasing responsibility
• Healthcare IT experience is highly preferred, ideally encompassing a broad range of business areas, care delivery settings, including related processes, integration and solution exposure.
• Product Model and Agile experience preferred (at scale)
• Familiarity with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and architecture modeling tools (e.g. Abacus, IBIS, Orbus iServer, MEGA, LeanIX, etc.

When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 134,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.

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