Principal Applications Architect

Role Description

The Principal Application Architect serves as a strategic leader within the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence, responsible for shaping the application technology landscape across Sanford Healthcare. Drives innovation by identifying and recommending solutions that enable critical business capabilities, ensure scalability and security, and align with the enterprise’s long-term vision.

• Acting as a trusted advisor, partners with stakeholders, application teams, and technical teams to deliver robust, future-ready application architectures that support organizational growth and transformation.
• Responsible for driving transformational opportunities through the strategic adoption of application technologies across the enterprise.
• Identifies critical business capabilities while ensuring alignment with evolving business and information systems requirements.
• Designs and oversees the implementation of enterprise-level application solutions that align with business objectives and adhere to technical standards.
• Ensures that systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable, while guiding development teams in applying architectural best practices.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and technology leaders to evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms that address current and future business needs.
• Works closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security Architects to ensure seamless integration of application solutions with underlying infrastructure and cloud environments, maintaining compliance with organizational security standards.
• Reviews application technologies for fitness to purpose and defining iterative paths toward strategic architecture goals.
• Develops high-level plans to bridge gaps between current and target states, aligning with IT budgeting and capital planning cycles.
• Analyzes system performance and implements improvements to enhance scalability, reliability, and overall efficiency.
• Must have the ability to work with leaders at all levels across the organization.
• Works with technical and non-technical stakeholders to clarify/discover requirements.
• Partners with Application Owners to confer with end-users, clients, or management to define business requirements for complex systems and technology evolution.
• Collaborates within Architecture and across IT disciplines to identify, establish, and maintain principles, policies & technical standards.
• Collaboratively authors, publishes, and socializes these principles, policies & standards as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required. Consideration will be given to candidates with a minimum of six years work experience in lieu of degree.
• Expert level experience aligning purchased software with capabilities and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud integration patterns (SaaS, PaaS).
• Leading or facilitating application selection processes (RFPs, RFIs).
• Experience connecting purchased solutions to existing systems within the environment.

Requirements

• Ability to work with leaders at all levels across the organization.
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to clarify/discover requirements.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $53.00 - $87.50
• Pay starts at $53 and increases according to years of applicable experience.
• Union Position: No

Company Description

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.