Principal Enterprise Architect

Overview

Enterprise Architecture work involves developing high level frameworks that align an organization’s IT applications, infrastructure with business processes/data to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations including:

• Mapping the relationships between information systems components (i.e., end users, business processes, applications, data, IT platform hardware/software, and networks)
• Identifying key interactions and dependencies across separate systems and platforms
• Evaluating the total cost of ownership and return on investment of various architecture alternatives.

City/State: Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift: First (Days)

The Principal Enterprise Architect will support initiatives across different functional areas such as Health Plans, Clinical Systems, Corporate Systems, Technology & Operations.

• Analyze the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Define reference models, standards, patterns, best practices, and position papers.
• Define target state architecture, blueprints, roadmaps for business/technology application portfolios/platforms to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.
• Evaluation and selection of hardware and software product standards and the design of standard configurations.
• Consult with application development projects to fit systems to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Consult with infrastructure development projects to fit the infrastructure to the architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.

• Lead the evolution of the EA function, including coordinating with other architects (e.g., application, domain, solution, security) in pursuit of balanced enterprise architecture viewpoints.
• Assess (via appropriate measurements) and communicate the achievement and impact of the EA.
• Lead and mentor solution architects, engineers, and individuals.

• Contribute to the creation of governing principles to guide enterprise information, technology, and solution decision‑making.
• Guide other Architects and IT teams on the ARB governance structure, processes, and lead compliance activities (exception and exemption handling) associated with ensuring compliance with the EA.

• Promote EA — its processes, outcomes, and lasting results — to other architecture, engineering, project management and operations teams.
• Contribute to the development and execution of a communication (including education) plan for the EA.
• Communicate cross‑functionally on the vision and provide presentations of the proposed solution.

• Lead projects / initiatives to design, and implement cloud‑based solutions, including reference architectures, estimates, and costs.
• Act as a subject matter expert on Cloud best practices within and outside the organization.
• Perform analysis of best practices and emerging concepts in Cloud‑based technologies, both internally and externally hosted.
• Act as a technical liaison between customer support services, product and service engineering teams.
• Review and audit existing solutions, design, and system architecture.
• Perform profiling and troubleshooting of existing solutions.
• Create technical documentation.

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred

8+ years of relevant experience with a degree

10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Preferred AWS/Azure/Google Professional Architect certification

• Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.
• Five or more years of experience in Software development.
• Hands‑on Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) is required.
• Proven experience in designing and architecting solutions and processes, preferably in a large‑scale healthcare organization (Payor or Hospital).
• Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, security, middleware, information analysis, database management or…