Solution Architect

About Children’s Minnesota

Children’s Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and not‑for‑profit system since 1924, Children’s Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two free‑standing hospitals, nine primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites.

As The Kids Experts™ in our region, Children’s Minnesota is regularly ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top children’s hospital. Find us on Facebook @childrensminnesota or on Twitter and Instagram ase visit childrens

MN.org.

The Solution Architect is a subject matter expert responsible for the platform architecture, solution design, capability mapping, and technical roadmap within their specific area of focus. This role translates the overarching enterprise architecture strategy and standards into practical, detailed solution architectures for projects and initiatives within the assigned domain. The Domain Architect provides deep technical leadership, ensuring that domain‑specific solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with both business needs and the enterprise technology direction.

This role collaborates closely with Enterprise Architecture, other Domain Architects, and solution delivery teams to ensure cohesive and effective technology implementation that supports organizational goals.

We are seeking a versatile and experienced IT professional with a strong foundation in data center architecture and cross‑domain infrastructure technologies. The ideal candidate will bring hands‑on expertise in server operating systems (Windows Server, Linux variants), enterprise storage solutions (SAN, NAS, DAS), and storage networking protocols (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe‑oF). Familiarity with platforms such as Net App, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere is essential, along with proficiency in automation and scripting tools like Ansible, Power Shell, Python, and Terraform.

Candidates should demonstrate a solid understanding of infrastructure orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm), backup and disaster recovery strategies (Commvault, Zerto), and high availability configurations. Experience with patch management, performance tuning, OS deployment, monitoring, and configuration management tools is highly valued. This role spans multiple IT disciplines and requires a collaborative mindset, adaptability, and a passion for optimizing and automating enterprise infrastructure.

Location (e.g. remote or on‑site):
Remote – Must be MN or WI resident

• BA/BS/MS or equivalent work experience, including 7+ years of infrastructure experience. Position requires formal education or equivalent work experience.

• Experience working in Microsoft Office
  365 environment is required.
• Experience working within a Service Now incident management (ticket) environment is desired.
• Experience with infrastructure observability, logging, monitoring and tracing platforms is preferred.
• Experience with disaster recovery architectures, high availability, redundancy, failover/failback processes, backup solutions, etc. is preferred.
• Experience managing vendor relationships is desired.
• Experience collaborating on procurement and contract negotiations is desired.
• Experience working in a Healthcare environment is desired.
• Demonstrated experience developing strategic technology roadmaps and enterprise‑level architecture blueprints.
• Minimum 7‑10 years of experience in Information Technology, with at least 3‑5 years in a technical leadership or architecture role focused specifically within a relevant domain:
  Infrastructure, Public Cloud, Data and Analytics, Software Engineering, Networking and Connectivity, ITIL and Service Delivery, Modern Workforce, Endpoint and Mobile, or Information Security.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and implementing complex technical solutions within the specified domain.
• Demonstrated ability to translate high‑level requirements and enterprise architecture guidelines into detailed, practical solution…