Chief Architect

Job Posting Title: Chief Architect

Hiring Department: Dell Medical School

Position Open To: All Applicants

Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40

FLSA Status: Exempt

Earliest Start Date: Immediately

Position Duration: Expected to Continue

Location: AUSTIN, TX

Job Details:

General Notes: The Office of Information Technology at the Dell Medical School is looking for a Chief Architect. Under the direction of the CTO, this position is a strategic leader for the technology department and the broader University of Texas Medical Center, facilitating the overall solution architecture, design, and implementation of platforms and capabilities to meet the needs of our emerging medical center. This role additionally serves the overall UT System by providing vision and leadership for the UT System data strategy and data platform.

Purpose: The Chief Architect will work directly with the leadership and staff throughout the IT organization as well as with business and clinical leaders. Collaboration with UT Austin main campus IT, UT System, and other healthcare organizations across UT is a key part of this role. Occasional travel to other UT system sites will be required.

Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of leading technologies and how they work together. Is fluent in all aspects of data and technology used in healthcare with a demonstrated ability to assess multiple factors in formulating recommendations, such as usability, performance, reliability, cost effectiveness, cybersecurity, and integration. Development of data capabilities to serve clinical, research, and education needs will be of primary importance.
• Part of the core team defining the overall technology roadmap. Lead transition and transformation by developing technical designs that meet the needs of the business, as well as usability, performance, cost, cybersecurity, and integration requirements. Regularly conducts research and evaluation of current technology trends and industry practices to inform strategy and works with Business Development on related opportunities. Ability to communicate technical information effectively with business, clinical, technical, and executive audiences. Ability to clearly articulate trade-offs and rationale for recommendations.
• Comfortable working with staff at all levels of the organization. Work style of collaboration balanced with the need to execute and complete priority work.
• Business-driven, people-focused, with exceptional influencing and storytelling skills; excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation, and time-management skills; strong verbal and written communication skills. Serves as a role model and mentor for staff. Takes accountability for individual and group responsibilities.
• Experienced in establishing credibility, obtaining buy-in, and leading multidisciplinary teams to achieve the technical strategy working in a fast-paced and matrixed environment partnering with senior business leaders. Proven track record of delivering integrated solutions in complex environments with multiple delivery teams. Proven ability to lead teams, develop effective relationships, and drive change. Escalates appropriately.
• Ability to develop and foster strategic partnerships with technology vendors, startups, and industry leaders that will enable and accelerate the overall strategy.
• Data driven in decision making and continuous improvement of services. Strong analytic and problem-solving skills in the area of responsibility.
• Sound business and financial acumen and understanding. Contributes to vendor management and contract negotiations in partnership with operational owners.
• Develops, implements, and monitors policies, procedures, and standards in collaboration with other Technology and Risk Management leaders to ensure policies, procedures, and standards are aligned and effective across the organization. Provides leadership in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field and 10 years of related experience including previous experience as a Chief Architect, or similar leadership role. Leadership gravitas. Prior experience developing and overseeing solution architecture and/or at-scale design for an enterprise. Prior experience developing and implementing data platform strategies. Broad knowledge of technology trends and robust technology industry understanding. Robust understanding of cyber threats, cohesive and effective mitigation strategies through architecture and design. Experience in vendor management. Experience leading IT transformational initiatives in complex environments. Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in related field. Experience in hospital, medical education, research, or related fields of healthcare. New facility technology-related technical design and implementation experience. Experience with developing and managing strategic partnerships. Experience in technology strategic planning. Experience with other parts of IT such as applications management. CTO experience is a plus.

Salary Range: OPEN

Working Conditions:

• May work around standard office conditions.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.

Required Materials:

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left-hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled into your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility: Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility: The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks: A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer: The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.