Lead Enterprise Architect

Lead Enterprise Architect

Join a high-impact leadership role at the forefront of healthcare transformation. As the Lead Enterprise Architect, you will shape the future of technology across a complex and rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem spanning payer, provider, pharmacy, clinical, corporate, and digital technology domains.

This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide strategy, drive modernization at scale, and partner directly with executive leadership to deliver innovative, secure, and resilient technology platforms that improve business outcomes and healthcare experiences. You'll collaborate with senior tech domain leaders, product and engineering teams, infrastructure organizations, and cybersecurity stakeholders to define modern architecture standards, accelerate innovation, and enable scalable enterprise capabilities across the organization.

We're looking for a strategic technology leader who combines deep architecture expertise with strong business acumen and healthcare industry knowledge. The ideal candidate is passionate about solving complex enterprise challenges, influencing organizational direction, and building future-ready platforms that balance agility, performance, security, and operational excellence.

If you thrive in transformational environments and want to help shape the next generation of healthcare technology, this role offers the visibility, influence, and scale to make a lasting impact.

The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide technology strategy, architecture standards, modernization roadmaps, and digital transformation initiatives across a complex healthcare ecosystem spanning payer, provider, pharmacy, clinical, corporate, and tech domains.

This role partners with executive leadership, product teams, engineering organizations, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to drive enterprise architecture strategy with a strong emphasis on:

• Software Rationalization
• Technology Domain Strategy
• Application Modernization
• Cloud Transformation
• Platform Standardization
• Operational Resiliency
• Cost Optimization

The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, healthcare domain expertise, architecture governance leadership, and hands-on technology depth to enable scalable, secure, compliant, and efficient enterprise platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Lead development and execution of enterprise architecture strategy aligned to business and digital transformation objectives.
• Establish target-state architecture models across infrastructure, networking, security, quality, and observability domains.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, principals, and engineering teams.
• Drive enterprise-wide architecture governance, standards, reference architectures, and technology lifecycle management best practices.
• Facilitate architecture review boards (ARB), technology governance councils, and strategic planning forums.
• Define measurable architecture KPIs tied to business value, operational efficiency, and technical health.

Software Rationalization & Application Portfolio Optimization

Strategic Initiatives

• Lead enterprise software rationalization initiatives across thousands of applications and platforms.
• Develop application inventory, classification, and lifecycle management frameworks.
• Identify redundant, overlapping, underutilized, obsolete, and high-risk technologies.
• Create modernization roadmaps focused on:
• Consolidation
• Retirement
• Re-platforming
• Refactoring
• SaaS migration
• Cloud-native transformation
• Establish Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Technical Debt reduction strategies.
• Drive reduction in vendor sprawl and unsupported technologies.
• Implement application scoring models using:
• Business capability alignment
• Operational criticality
• Security posture
• Technical fitness
• Compliance risk
• Cloud readiness
• Partner with finance and procurement teams to optimize software licensing and infrastructure costs.

Best Practices

• Adopt capability-based planning methodologies.
• Maintain enterprise application heatmaps and technology risk dashboards.
• Implement standardized lifecycle governance:
• Assess
• Invest
• Migrate
• Retire
• Leverage CMDB and application dependency mapping tools.
• Promote API-first and reusable platform architectures.
• Establish golden-path engineering standards and approved technology patterns.
• Use architecture fitness functions and technical health metrics for continuous evaluation.

Technology Domain Strategy Leadership

Core Technology Domains

Lead strategic architecture direction across domains including:

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy
• Kubernetes/container platform strategy
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
• Resiliency and disaster recovery architectures

Application Architecture

• Microservices and event-driven architectures
• Observability as a design and practice
• DevSecOps enablement
• Platform engineering and developer experience

Security & Risk

• Zero Trust architecture
• Identity and access management
• HIPAA and healthcare regulatory compliance
• Cyber resiliency standards

Architecture Governance & Standards

• Define enterprise technology standards and approved reference architectures.
• Govern technology lifecycle management and exception processes.
• Establish domain roadmaps aligned with business capability maturity.
• Conduct architecture assessments and technical due diligence.
• Ensure alignment with:
• HIPAA
• HITRUST
• CMS interoperability requirements
• PCI
• Internal cybersecurity policies
• Drive standardization of integration patterns, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and telemetry frameworks.

Modernization & Transformation Initiatives

• Legacy modernization
• Mainframe reduction initiatives
• Cloud migration and optimization
• AI-enabled operational automation
• Infrastructure simplification and platform convergence

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive IT and architecture experience.
• 5+ years leading enterprise architecture initiatives within large-scale healthcare, payer, or provider environments.
• Deep expertise in:
• Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF)
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Technology rationalization and modernization
• DevSecOps
• Experience leading software rationalization at enterprise scale.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and large engineering organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred.
• TOGAF, Azure, AWS, or SAFe certifications.
• Experience within Fortune 100 healthcare enterprises.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools:
• LeanIX
• ServiceNow APM

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic mindset with strong business acumen
• Executive communication and stakeholder management
• Influence without authority
• Organizational transformation leadership
• Systems thinking and problem-solving
• Ability to balance innovation with operational stability
• Strong mentoring and team leadership capabilities

Success Metrics

• Reduction in software portfolio redundancy
• Improved technology standardization adoption
• Reduction in technical debt