Job Summary:
Sentara Health is a healthcare organization that provides quality outpatient services to the surrounding community. The Principal Enterprise Architect provides strategic and technical leadership in the development and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks that align information systems with business processes to improve efficiency and productivity across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the analysis of the current IT environment to identify gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities.
• Define target-state architectures, reference models, standards, patterns, and roadmaps that guide enterprise transformation.
• Evaluate system interactions, dependencies, total cost of ownership, and return on investment to inform architectural decisions and technology direction.
• Collaborate across application, domain, solution, infrastructure, and security architecture teams to deliver balanced, enterprise-wide architectural outcomes.
• Provide governance oversight, mentor architects and engineers, and serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural strategy, cloud adoption, and emerging technologies.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree
• 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree
• Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture
• Five or more years of experience in Software development
• Proven experience in designing and architecting solutions and processes, preferably in a large-scale healthcare organization (hospital)
• Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, security, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
• Deep knowledge of value stream maps, persona development, design thinking, customer journey, etc.
• Experience in technologies such as mobile, AI, data center, infrastructure, cloud (Azure, AWS), data streaming, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing and digital experiences technologies
• Experience in Patient care, Clinical Support, Pharmacy and Revenue cycle management applications is required (e.g., Epic, PACS, Waystar etc.)
• Experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, draw.io, SharePoint, Mural etc.
• Experience with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman, FEAF etc.
• Experience modeling architecture viewpoints in EA tools
Preferred:
• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred
• AWS/Azure/Google Professional Architect
• Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA)
Company:
Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission - "we improve health every day." Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Founded in 1988, the company is headquartered in Norfolk, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.