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At Franciscan, our IS Enterprise Digital Solutions Architect ("Architect") is a strategic and hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and delivering enterprise-grade digital solutions across data analytics, automation, interfaces, and AI domains. In this role you will be accountable for creating a cohesive architectural strategy that unifies the organization's technology stack to solve complex business challenges and advance digital transformation. You will play a key role in shaping the technical direction for developing integrated business and enterprise data product solutions, providing technical expertise to project teams, and ensuring that new and existing software solutions are strategically aligned and effectively developed.
WHO WE ARE
Franciscan Health is a leading healthcare organization dedicated to providing exceptional patient care and promoting health and wellness in our community. Our mission is to ensure that every patient receives the highest quality of care through innovation, compassion, and excellence. With 11 ministries and access points across Indiana, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers who provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Working in close partnership with other IS architects and colleagues, lead the architectural vision, reference models, and standards for several domains including data, AI, and automation, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and IT strategies.

• Serve as the Product Owner for prioritized digital, AI, and solutions dev initiatives, working across clinical, operational, and administrative teams.

• Increase the analytics, AI, and solutions development maturity for the organization. Drive best practices and continuous improvement in domains including business applications, open API-based architecture, data lifecycle management, interoperability, information delivery, closed loop analytics, and vendor/partner integration.

• Effectively lead, in partnership with other FA colleagues, to promote, deliver, and adopt mature and robust solutions and capabilities for data segmentation, data security, privacy, compliance, monitoring, and auditing.

• Define, articulate, and update the guiding principles that drive the technical standards for the organization across assigned areas. Endorse technical standards and ensure that they are aligned with technical vision, architecture, and roadmap.

• Prescribe and optimize the use of modern platforms and capabilities, effectively integrating cloud-native and third-party systems, services, and technologies into FA tech stack.

• Drive reuse of components, modular architecture, and standardized practices across business units and solution teams through technical leadership in designing integrated data pipelines, orchestration workflows, model deployments, and automation frameworks.

QUALIFICATIONS

• RequiredBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, Computer Programming, Engineering (Computer, Mechanical, Network, or Electrical), Information Security

• Preferred Master's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, Computer Programming, Engineering (Computer, Mechanical, Network, or Electrical), Information Security

• 10+ years Hands-on solutions development and architecture across cloud and on-prem environments Required

• 8 years Custom development experience with deep understanding of IT systems, applications, data structures, and infrastructure, including end-to-end system mapping across data, digital, or business solutions areas. Required

• 8 years Software development/engineering and programming with one or more industry standard languages such as SQL, Python, Java, C++ etc. Required

• 7 years Progressive experience in enterprise architecture or IT strategy roles through technical leadership at an architect or solutions lead level Required

• 5 years Experience with cloud-native tool and technologies on Microsoft Azure platform with solid technical knowledge of relevant data architecture, metadata management, AL/ML and automation frameworks. Required

• 5 years Experience with healthcare enterprise platforms such as Epic, Workday, ServiceNow etc. Preferred

• 5 years Healthcare technology experience, particularly within hospital systems or integrated delivery networks Preferred

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

It is the policy of Franciscan Alliance to provide equal employment to its employees and qualified applicants for employment as otherwise required by an applicable local, state or Federal law.

Franciscan Alliance reserves a Right of Conscience objection in the event local, state or Federal ordinances that violate its values and the free exercise of its religious rights.

Franciscan Alliance is committed to equal employment opportunity.

Franciscan provides eligible employees with comprehensive benefit offerings. Find an overview on thebenefit section of our career site, jobs.franciscanhealth.org.