This job will connect Children's Wisconsin's clinical and business priorities to practical technology direction and solution designs. Personally develop enterprise roadmaps and standards, architect complex solutions with particular depth in infrastructure, and establish and lead the architecture practice. The role will improve technology investment decisions, reduce unnecessary complexity and risk, and guide delivery of secure, reliable, and supportable services. The position combines principal architect responsibilities with management of a developing enterprise architecture function. Initially performs the architecture work directly, establishing the methods, relationships, and reusable designs needed to support delivery; continues substantial individual architecture work as the team grows. Scope spans business capabilities, applications, data and integration, infrastructure, and cloud, with domain specialists contributing detailed expertise. Partners with the CISO's organization, which retains security architecture and security policy ownership.
Responsibilities
Translate organizational strategy and clinical and business needs into current state assessments, target architectures, and transition roadmaps; Personally lead solution architecture for complex initiatives from discovery through implementation; Provide deep architecture expertise across enterprise networks, compute, virtualization, storage, identity dependencies, resilience, and hybrid cloud; Establish architecture principles, standards, review criteria, and decision records; Evaluate proposed technologies and vendor solutions for enterprise fit, integration, operating cost, lifecycle, and supportability; Build and maintain an architecture repository and establish a repeatable engagement model with project and service teams; Plan architecture workload and staffing, recruit additional architects as approved, and coach and develop staff; Work directly with engineers, application owners, analytics teams, and vendors to test assumptions and resolve design issues; Explain technology choices, costs, dependencies, and risks to clinical, business, and technology leaders; Report roadmap progress and architecture outcomes to the CTO and governance groups
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business, or a related field required, or relevant experience; 7+ years of progressively responsible technology experience, including substantial responsibility for enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and infrastructure design in a complex organization required; 7+ years enterprise architecture experience, including current and target state architectures, technology standards, and transition roadmaps tied to business needs required; 7+ years solution and infrastructure architecture experience, with strong infrastructure architecture depth supported by prior engineering or implementation experience required; 5+ years leadership and execution experience, including leading architecture decisions across teams and mentoring technical professionals required; 5+ years experience establishing an enterprise architecture practice, recruiting or managing architects, or leading architecture in healthcare or another environment requiring continuous service availability required; Demonstrated ability to connect business capabilities, applications, data, integration and infrastructure; Proven ability to work independently as the initial architect; Ability to assume formal people management responsibilities as staffing grows; Demonstrated ability to design across network, compute, storage, identity, resilience and cloud dependencies
Nice to have
Azure solution architecture experience; AWS experience; analytics platform enablement experience; application rationalization experience; data center migration experience; familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and modeling methods; enterprise or cloud architecture certifications; Healthcare or continuous service availability environment experience
Stany Zjednoczone · Milwaukee
