The Enterprise Architect Senior provides advanced solutions and domain architecture leadership for complex clinical, operational, and administrative initiatives within a healthcare system. This role translates business and clinical requirements into well-defined architectural designs and works closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Enterprise Architect Senior serves as a technical mentor and escalation point for architects and engineers while supporting enterprise architecture governance and consistency. Essential Job Function: • Leads architecture across multiple related initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and approved patterns. • Translates business, clinical, and operational requirements into detailed architecture designs spanning applications, integrations, data, and supporting infrastructure. • Reviews and approves solution designs produced by project teams, identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse or standardization. • Produces and maintains architecture artifacts, including system diagrams, integration views, and design specifications that support implementation and operations. • Serves as a regular reviewer in architecture governance and design reviews, providing recommendations and ensuring compliance with established standards and principles. • Influences delivery teams and vendors to ensure architectural intent is maintained. • Provides domain-level architectural oversight for healthcare interoperability solutions, ensuring reliable and secure data exchange across clinical and operational systems. • Identifies and mitigates architectural risks related to performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance. • Mentors Enterprise Architects and engineers, promoting architectural best practices and consistency across initiatives. • Contributes to refinement of standards and patterns. • Evaluates impact of strategy on domain architecture. • Performs other duties as assigned. Education: • Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field • Preferred: Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Science, or related field Experience: • Required: • 7 years of total IT experience • 5 years of experience with IT architecture, systems design and analysis in healthcare. • 5 years of experience with Enterprise Architecture modeling techniques to create the right-sized specification to which teams can design or implement within the business and IT ecosystem. • 5 years of clinical experience drives a better understanding of the stakeholders and customers benefiting from the solution in the context of healthcare delivery. • 5 years of strong experience in designing and working with n-tier and cloud architecture • 5 years of strong technical background in software development, infrastructure management, databases, security, networking, and systems integration. • 5 years of experience with organizational change management and aligning technology roadmaps with business strategies. Licensure/Certification/Listing: Preferred: • The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) 1 or 2 certification • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification • Platform-centric certification at architect level