Enterprise Architect Senior

Enterprise Architect Senior The Enterprise Architect Senior provides advanced solutions and domain architecture leadership for complex clinical, operational, and administrative initiatives within a healthcare system. This role translates business and clinical requirements into well-defined architectural designs and works closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Enterprise Architect Senior serves as a technical mentor and escalation point for architects and engineers while supporting enterprise architecture governance and consistency. Essential Job Function: Leads architecture across multiple related initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and approved patterns. Translates business, clinical, and operational requirements into detailed architecture designs spanning applications, integrations, data, and supporting infrastructure. Reviews and approves solution designs produced by project teams, identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse or standardization. Produces and maintains architecture artifacts, including system diagrams, integration views, and design specifications that support implementation and operations. Serves as a regular reviewer in architecture governance and design reviews, providing recommendations and ensuring compliance with established standards and principles. Influences delivery teams and vendors to ensure architectural intent is maintained. Provides domain-level architectural oversight for healthcare interoperability solutions, ensuring reliable and secure data exchange across clinical and operational systems. Identifies and mitigates architectural risks related to performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance. Mentors Enterprise Architects and engineers, promoting architectural best practices and consistency across initiatives. Contributes to refinement of standards and patterns. Evaluates impact of strategy on domain architecture. Performs other duties as assigned. Education: Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field Experience: Required: 7 years of total IT experience 5 years of experience with IT architecture, systems design and analysis in healthcare. 5 years of experience with Enterprise Architecture modeling techniques to create the right-sized specification to which teams can design or implement within the business and IT ecosystem. 5 years of clinical experience drives a better understanding of the stakeholders and customers benefiting from the solution in the context of healthcare delivery. 5 years of strong experience in designing and working with n-tier and cloud architecture 5 years of strong technical background in software development, infrastructure management, databases, security, networking, and systems integration. 5 years of experience with organizational change management and aligning technology roadmaps with business strategies. Licensure/Certification/Listing: Preferred: The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) 1 or 2 certification Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification Platform-centric certification at architect level Cone Health