Enterprise Architect

Ardent Health is a leading provider of healthcare in growing mid-sized urban communities across the U.S. With a focus on people and investments in innovative services and technologies, Ardent is passionate about making healthcare better and easier to access. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent delivers care through a system of 30 acute care hospitals, 24,000+ team members and more than 280 sites of care with over 1,800 affiliated providers across six states.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Enterprise Architect (EA) designs and oversees IT infrastructure to ensure alignment with an organization's business goals and strategies. They analyze the current systems architecture, identify areas for improvement, and develop comprehensive plans to integrate new technologies and processes.

• Collaborate with senior leadership and business stakeholders to understand the organization's strategic objectives. Translate these objectives into actionable technology roadmaps and architectural guidelines.
• Ensures IT solutions align with business needs, enhance operational efficiency, and drive competitive advantage. Regularly assess the impact of architectural decisions on business outcomes.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices. Recommend innovative solutions that support business growth and agility.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, principles, and policies. Monitor compliance across projects and initiatives.
• Work closely with vendors, solution architects, infrastructure teams, information security teams, and project managers to design scalable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks related to scalability, security, performance, and data integrity.
• Collaborate with the PMO, stakeholders, IT leaders, and cross-functional teams, including clinical support teams, infrastructure specialists, data specialists, information security, vendors, and external partners, to ensure seamless integration of systems.
• Clearly communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and rationale to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships through active listening, appropriate feedback, sincerity, integrity, and genuine concern for the well-being of colleagues, clinical staff, patients, and leadership.
• Provide guidance to IT team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7 years of overall IT experience.
• 3 years of experience as a technical lead, business architect, or solutions architect.
• Experience with healthcare-specific systems, compliance (such as HIPAA), interoperability standards (like HL7, FHIR, DICOM), and electronic health records (EHR) systems and health information exchanges (HIE).
• Prior healthcare experience preferred.
• ITIL Certification preferred.
• TOGAF 9/10 Certification preferred.
• At least one recent technical certificate is preferred from the following vendors Microsoft, AWS, Google, VMware, Cisco, or Epic.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
• Attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and managerial personnel.
• Experience in enterprise software development.
• Familiarity with architecture roadmaps and strategies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong leadership and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.

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