Associate Technical Architect

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The EA Associate Technical Architect will contribute to the development, planning and implementation of architecture in specific areas across Application, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Emerging Technologies domains enabling enterprise architecture strategies and solutions. This role involves understanding business and technical requirements to assist in all phases of architecture development including vision and concept development, design, implementation, governance, and composition of architectural artifacts.

Requirements

Associate degree in computer science or combination of equivalent education and experience
3 years of experience in an IT domain or sub-domain
2 years of industry experience
1 year of architecture experience
Demonstrated experience working in rapid-paced work environment and agile delivery

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in computer science or related field
4 years of experience in an IT domain or sub-domain
3 years of industry experience
2 years of architecture experience
Architecture Framework Cert (TOGAF)
AWS
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
EPIC Certification
Experience with clinical technologies (e.g. Patient monitoring, Nurse Call, Clinical Communications.)

Responsibilities

Understand and diligently apply EA methodology, framework, and process to contribute to the development of a single, cohesive architecture for the IT enterprise.
Collaborate with other architects in the EA practice and provide input to help derive architecture priority from IT strategy.
Articulate EA priority, purpose and scope of work within a domain, and identify domain resources required to develop architecture.
Seek input from domain SMEs to identify direct dependencies within a domain that is required to develop architecture and propose a work plan to EA.
Develop As-Is and To-Be views of domain architecture as an integral component of architecture for the IT enterprise, including: Target outcomes translated into business capabilities, IT services, and technologies. Work plan across all required IT teams to develop architecture. Architecture vision, business, data, application, and technology layers. Deployment plan (12-18 months) for target architecture that fits within overall roadmap for architected IT. Cybersecurity and IT standards that are incorporated into the architecture. Workforce impact assessment and recommendation to achieve target state. EA peer-review and formal endorsement of solutions and designs.
Create architecture views, artifacts for architecture analysis and documentation, and management plan using the tools and templates prescribed by the EA framework.
Contribute to EA review and analysis within the domain for architecture design in a manner that enables domain leader to make choices for technologies or services.
Translate vendor roadmaps for current technologies into LCM plans.
Upload architecture development plan and documentation into online living architecture and EA repository to enable reference and use across Fairview.
Contribute to domain activities to promote awareness of EA, technology choices, knowledge and expertise within domain to achieve operations target KPIs.
Effectively contribute to improvement efforts within EA to mature the practice, develop architecture expertise and promulgate EA thinking and use across IT.