IT Architect 4, Health Infrastructure

Department: Health Sciences IT - Research Systems

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Overview

The IT Architect 4, Health Infrastructure will serve as the senior technical architect for Health Sciences IT, providing technical leadership and architectural direction across cloud, compute, servers, storage, networking, virtualization, data center/colocation, and related infrastructure supporting research, academic, and administrative environments. They will develop infrastructure architecture and technical roadmaps that improve scalability, resiliency, interoperability, lifecycle management, and operational efficiency while aligning with Yale enterprise technology standards and services. Additionally, they will identify and lead opportunities to optimize infrastructure costs and operations by reducing technical debt and duplication, consolidating platforms, improving utilization, retiring legacy technologies, and leveraging enterprise or shared services where appropriate. The IT Architect 4, Health Infrastructure will provide deep technical advisory and solution architecture expertise to HSIT leadership and technology teams, translating complex business and scientific requirements into sustainable solutions and evaluating technology investments based on technical value, cost, risk, and long-term supportability. They will lead technical architecture and coordination for complex cross-institutional initiatives involving multiple teams, vendors, and other partners, identifying opportunities to simplify integrations, eliminate redundant capabilities, and maximize existing institutional technology investments. Provide technical leadership for secure and regulated infrastructure, partnering with Information Security and Compliance to incorporate institutional security standards, risk remediation, data protection and applicable regulatory requirements.

Required Skills and Abilities

• 1. Well-developed consulting skills and adept at working across multiple departments to break down barriers to collaboration and partnership.
• 2. Demonstrated experience in organizing and articulating relationships between multiple complex IT systems.
• 3. Proven experience participating in the design of enterprise architectures or leading large-scale systems integrations.
• 4. Demonstrated team performance skills, service mindset approach, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor.

Principal Responsibilities

• 1. Examine and validate broader subsystems standards and assure that inter-system architectures are both efficient and consistent with existing institutional standards and practices. Identify Technical Gaps / and Technical Debt within your area of formal expertise.
• 2. Establishes new paradigms for their area expertise.
• 3. Develops, documents, and disseminates standard assemblies of technologies to flexibly and efficiently solve University needs.
• 4. Responsible for establishing design decisions and assuring that the implementations are socialized and understood by the effected parties.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree and seven years of experience or equivalent education and experience.

Job Posting Date

10/07/2026

Job Category

Professional

Bargaining Unit

NON

Compensation Grade

GS-4

Compensation Grade Profile

GS-4l

Salary Range

$123,800.00 - $185,675.00

Benefits

A general description of the benefits to be offered with this Managerial & Professional position is available at:

Yale Benefits

Time Type

Full time

Duration Type

Staff

Work Model

Hybrid

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks basedon the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.

Posting Disclaimer

Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties throughtheir hiring department.

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