Clinical Systems Architect Jobs (NOW HIRING)

City/State
Virginia Beach, VA
Work Shift
First (Days)
Overview:
Sentara is hiring a Clinical Systems Domain Architect!
This role is fully remote.
Overview
Sentara Health is seeking a Clinical Systems Domain Architect to join our growing Clinical Systems Architect team. This role is responsible for providing strategic leadership, architectural guidance, and technical expertise across our Population Health portfolio.
This position serves as the bridge between operational leaders, clinical stakeholders, information technology teams, and vendors to ensure technology investments align with organizational goals, improve patient outcomes, and support long-term strategic initiatives.
The ideal candidate combines strong healthcare operational knowledge with technical expertise and a passion for innovation. This role is well-suited for someone looking to move beyond traditional application support and into strategic planning, enterprise architecture, and transformational healthcare initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
Develop and maintain application and capability roadmaps aligned to organizational strategy.
Partner with operational and clinical leaders to identify opportunities for innovation and workflow improvement.
Lead technology discussions that support population health, care management, ambulatory operations, and value-based care initiatives.
Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations to leadership.
Architecture & Governance
Serve as the primary architect for assigned domains and applications.
Participate in governance, architectural review, and strategic planning activities.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, and long-term technology strategy.
Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve system integration, and optimize application portfolios.
Collaboration & Relationship Management
Build strong partnerships with operational leaders, clinicians, project teams, and vendors.
Facilitate workshops, strategic planning sessions, and business acceleration initiatives.
Translate operational needs into technology solutions and architectural recommendations.
Provide mentorship and guidance to analysts and project teams.
Solution Design & Delivery
Support major initiatives through planning, design, and implementation phases.
Assess impacts across workflows, applications, integrations, and reporting solutions.
Ensure solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Assist with prioritization and strategic alignment of project portfolios.
Education

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree (Required)

or

• 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree (Required)

• Experience in lieu of Bachelor's Degree

Certification/Licensure

• Epic Ambulatory certification or Healthy Planet or Compass Rose (Required)
• Epic Cogito (Preferred)
• Nice to have TOGAF, PMP, Agile, or related professional certifications.

Experience

• Experience with Population Health, Arcadia, Health Plan, Healthy Planet, Care Management, Community Connect, Case Management or value-based care programs (Required)
• Minimum 5 years of healthcare information systems experience (Required)
• Experience supporting Epic Ambulatory or related ambulatory healthcare applications (Required)
• Strong understanding of population health workflows and healthcare operations (Required)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional discussions and influence stakeholders (Required)
• Experience developing strategic recommendations and presenting to leadership (Required).
• Experience with enterprise architecture, application rationalization, or technology road mapping (Preferred)
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and integration technologies (Preferred)

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is: 106,080.00 - 176,820.80. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
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Keywords: Epic Population Health, Epic Ambulatory, Epic Cogito, Epic Healthy Planet, Epic Compass Rose, Clinical Systems Domain Architect, Value-based Care, Ambulatory, Healthy Planet, Cogito, Population Health, interoperability, care management, community connect, case management
Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to 10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance - 5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down - 10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met
Sentara Independence provides quality outpatient services to the surrounding community. The facility includes an ambulance-accessible emergency room that is supported by board-certified physicians. Sentara Independence houses state-of-the-art medical equipment and highly-skilled physicians and staff. Sentara Independence is now an extension of the quality services at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital including advanced imaging and physical therapy.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.