Enterprise IT Architect

IT@JH Office of the Deputy CIO is seeking an IT Enterprise Architect who will shape the future of how Johns Hopkins connects and empowers its global community through cutting-edge enterprise portal solutions. This pivotal role architect's transformative digital experiences for faculty, staff, students, and administrators across the Johns Hopkins ecosystem. The position sits at the forefront of innovation, integrating emerging AI/ML technologies, designing next generation microservices architectures, and creating seamless, intelligent user experiences that impact thousands of users worldwide.

This high-visibility role involves working on mission-critical initiatives where architectural decisions directly influence how one of the world's leading research universities operates and innovates. The Enterprise IT Architect has the autonomy to drive technical strategy, evaluate and implement breakthrough technologies, and solve complex challenges that push the boundaries of what's possible in enterprise portal architecture. Working alongside brilliant minds across IT leadership, this position mentors talented teams, establishes architectural excellence, and builds scalable solutions that will serve as the foundation for Johns Hopkins' digital transformation for years to come.

The role offers the perfect blend of technical challenge, strategic impact, and meaningful purpose for those passionate about creating elegant, powerful architectures that make a real difference in education and research.

Job Scope/Complexity

The Enterprise IT Architect typically involves applications and integration of a broad variety of products, technologies and services, and various architectural styles and domains Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. This role is involved in strategic technology planning and oversees solution architecture using and/or defining enterprise protocols in the design, implementation, performance, and documentation of technologies and systems. Ensures that appropriate technologies and protocols are applied when analyzing and translating business requirements into functional/technical specifications and designs.

Using functional specifications and designs, produces high level framework used by more junior IT staff and partitions large systems into components that enable parallel solution development by multiple teams. The scope of a technology specialization is described in the supplemental, however all IT Architects have a centralized and enterprise breadth. Work complexity is extremely high, spanning the entirety of a specialty for the Johns Hopkins enterprise.

Enterprise IT Architects are the technical experts for their domain and comprehensively understand the Hopkins specifics of the technical implementation.

Where this position is a technology leader for the Enterprise, this position will not have direct reports and performance reviews are not in scope for this role. However, the Enterprise IT Architect will provide feedback for technical staff to their management on performance reviews. The Enterprise IT Architect serves as a senior technical leader and mentor across the TAG and organization, providing architectural guidance and technical direction to development teams, solution architects, and technical staff.

The role encompasses conducting architectural reviews, establishing technical standards, and delivering expert consultation on complex technical decisions. While not maintaining formal supervisory duties, this position significantly influences technical direction and provides valuable feedback to management regarding team members' technical performance and architectural adherence. The architect fosters technical excellence and knowledge sharing across multiple teams through collaborative leadership and strategic guidance.

The scale is enterprise. All Johns Hopkins Medicine and/or all Johns Hopkins University affiliates, including international locales.

• Users: 100,000+
• Systems: 100,000+
• Complexity is at the highest.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy/Leadership

• Collaborate with, and frequently lead, other technical experts, architects and subject matter experts to contribute technology elements for the enterprise.
• Develop guiding principles, standards, and best practices consumed by execution teams.
• Responsible for IT vision, strategy, technology innovations, and architecture services of enterprise infrastructure and applications; design, document and implement a strategic roadmap for assigned technologies.
• Address highly complex problems by meeting with clients to observe and understand current processes and the issues related to those processes. Provide written documentation of findings to share with the client and other IT colleagues.
• Tracks a broad range of emerging technologies to:
• Determine their maturity and applicability to the enterprise
• Assess the relative impact to IT strategy and interprets meaning to senior IT leadership team
• Lead and manage strategic activities, including adoption of…