Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 40 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 71 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers, and ambulatory surgery centers.
Summary:
As an Enterprise Architect, you will be a key member of our architecture team, responsible for providing strategic direction and technical expertise across multiple domains or technology areas. You will play a crucial role in shaping and optimizing the application and technology landscape within your domain, ensuring alignment with the organization's business goals and objectives. This position requires a deep understanding of the domain, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and scalable solutions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Enterprise Architecture: Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the overall IT application and technology architectures including industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, and other architects to define the domain's technology strategy and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the overall enterprise architecture.
- Solution Design: Lead the design and architecture of complex solutions across multiple domains, considering scalability, security, performance, and other architectural principles.
- Standards and Guidelines: Establish and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in solution delivery.
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them in implementing solutions that adhere to the domain's architectural principles.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and challenges across the organization and develop mitigation strategies to address them proactively.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with other domain architects, enterprise architects, and stakeholders to ensure cross-domain and cross-functional alignment of architecture efforts.
- Vendor and Technology Evaluation: Assess third-party solutions and technologies within your domain, making recommendations for adoption or integration.
- Documentation: Create and maintain architectural documentation, including diagrams, design specifications, and technical documentation to support development teams.
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and relevant certifications to enhance your expertise within the domain.
Minimum Qualifications:
Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Required Experience:
- 7-10 years or more of experience in a similar role BS/BA degree in IT, or equivalent level of work experience.
- 5-7 years of experience related to application, solution, or enterprise architecture.
Preferred Experience: Enterprise Architect in a large Healthcare organization.
Preferred License/Registration/Certification: EA Framework certifications such as TOGAF.
Computer Skills Required:
- Knowledge in Microsoft Word and Google Suite.
- Experience with SQL, data sourcing, enterprise data management, modeling, business strategy, auditing and compliance, enterprise architecture frameworks and tools.
Physical Demands:
In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:
- The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
- The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.
- The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office or administrative work.