Enterprise Architect

Terms of Employment

• Contract, 12 months 
• This position is fully remote. 

Overview

Our client is seeking an Enterprise Architect to guide the organization in planning, developing, and applying enterprise architecture to achieve business strategies and drive transformation. This role requires a broad understanding of the enterprise, its business objectives, current capabilities, future needs, and healthcare or technology industry trends. The Enterprise Architect will support business strategy and enterprise architecture development by providing strategic counsel, monitoring industry trends, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. They will offer leadership, mentoring, and guidance to senior leadership and teams, oversee the planning and delivery of enterprise architecture services across multiple business areas, and lead the ongoing development and enhancement of the enterprise architecture practice, including frameworks, methods, processes, and tools.

Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Provide thought leadership in the development and execution of enterprise and domain-specific IT strategies, standards, and guidelines. Engage in business strategy development to identify new business capability and technology-driven opportunities and ensure alignment and prioritization of IT strategy. Define business and operating models to exploit new opportunities and realize strategic goals and objectives. Support due diligence on merger, acquisition, strategic partnership, and investment activities of the enterprise.
• Architecture Practice Development: Lead the development, tailoring, and enhancement of enterprise architecture frameworks, methods, and tools. Ensure the alignment and integration of enterprise architecture processes and deliverables with those of other architecture and SDLC disciplines. Lead the development of enterprise architecture communications and education material for use with business and technical stakeholders or partners. Prepares and publishes formal architecture documents, produces architecture development plans and reports, and presents staff actions to customers (e.g., white papers, briefings).
• Architecture Development: Provide oversight for development, review, approve, and maintain enterprise architecture blueprints and roadmaps. Analyze pain points and opportunities that transcend business areas and propose enterprise strategies or solutions. Provide oversight and ensure the quality of reusable architecture patterns and reference models. Ensure alignment across architecture and business domains and traceability to business and IT strategy.
• Architecture Governance: Represent Enterprise Architecture and provide thought leadership in solution architecture peer reviews and architecture governance forums. Ensure that IT portfolio decisions provide business value and optimize total cost of ownership. Lead operations of the Architecture Review Board.
• Architecture Consulting: Provide guidance to enterprise, domain and solution architects to ensure that solution architectures align with IT strategies and enterprise blueprints, standards, and guidelines. Researches, develops, documents, and analyzes enterprise architectures (including business, enterprise information environment, intelligence processes, and IT) to identify mission capability gaps, overlaps, and shortfalls.
• Solution Assessment: Represent Enterprise Architecture in the identification and evaluation of solution alternatives, including the drafting and/or review of strategic RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation of vendor proposals.
• Planning and Operations: Assess projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture. Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to enterprise architecture.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• 14 years progressive engineering experience leading multiple business facing enterprise level cross domain engineering initiatives OR 12 years progressive experience in multiple Domain Architecture or Solutions Architecture leading multiple business facing enterprise level architecture OR 10 years experience in Enterprise Architecture leading multiple business facing enterprise architecture initiatives.
• In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
• Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high quality solutions. 
• Ability to coach peers and team members. 
• Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration. 
• Expertise with domain related architecture frameworks, methods and tools.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration.
• Healthcare experience
• Adept at technical documentation and reporting. 

nTech is an equal opportunity employer. All offers of employment are contingent upon pre-employment drug and background screenings. Only candidates who meet all of the above client requirements will be contacted by a recruiter.

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