Director, Enterprise Architecture

NMDP•Minneapolis, MN

10h

About The Position

The Director of Enterprise Architecture leads the development and evolution of NMDP’s enterprise-wide technology blueprint and multi-year roadmap, ensuring that technology decisions and investments align with organizational goals and strategic direction. This role oversees a team of enterprise architects, providing strategic guidance and solution leadership across all major technology initiatives. This leader partners closely with business leaders, product management, and IT teams to define and guide the future-state architecture, modernize core platforms, and solution design across the enterprise. Acting as a key strategic thought leader and influencer, the Director communicates complex architectural concepts in clear business terms, builds strong cross-functional relationships, and drives adoption of architecture standards throughout the organization. This leader ensures that NMDP’s technology landscape is coherent, future-ready, and able to support enterprise growth, innovation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

Experience architecting and integrating enterprise solutions on Salesforce and Oracle platforms (e.g., CRM, ERP, data, and workflow modernization) and aligning these platforms within a broader enterprise architecture and cloud strategy.
Software development and testing methodologies along with experience in regulatory oversight is required.
Solid understanding of operational processes and the ability to discuss technological terminology in business terms.
Advanced knowledge supporting business capability development through application architecture.
Strong understanding of current application technology trends, and overall IT industry trends and advanced knowledge of business, systems, and information modeling techniques.
Advanced technical expertise in architectural design, development, and implementation with specialization in multiple technology disciplines, platforms, and applications.
Expertise in IT business architecture including business process design and governance.
Application of framework architecture, application servers, application security, distributed application security, database environment, data-driven application methodologies.
Thorough understanding of the enterprise architectural blueprint requirements and the impact on business functions.
Demonstrate effective organizational and cultural leadership to drive and implement major re-engineering efforts; strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
Exceptional written and oral communication skill; strong teamwork and collaboration across the organization; advanced planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Foster organization changes through multiple channels, influence at all levels, manage organization-wide change driven by significant innovation and remain neutral toward technology choices.
Direct, lead and mentor project team/team members comprised of direct and indirect reports.
Manage/support enterprise architecture roadmap.
Apply knowledge of system integration and business process modeling.
Demonstrate program implementation skills including project portfolio management, and the planning, reporting and directing the work of others across multiple initiatives.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or Engineering/Business with an emphasis in Information Technology. However, upon evaluation, equivalent related experience and/or education may be substituted for the degree requirement.
10+ years technical work experience in a software development environment which must include:
5+ years leading technical teams.
5+ years' experience as a Solution Architect or an Enterprise Architect and a minimum of 3 years as an Enterprise Architect with experience analyzing and creating artifacts describing the architecture from the business, information, application, and technology viewpoints.
Demonstrated experience implementing solutions.
Experience designing application architectures including both in-house and COTS (Commercial, off-the-shelf) solutions.
Experience in establishing and executing multi-year application migration roadmaps.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the healthcare, clinical, life sciences, or health technology domains, including familiarity with healthcare workflows; data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR); regulatory considerations (HIPAA, PHI); interoperability challenges; patient journey mapping; and the unique architectural needs of healthcare ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Define and continuously evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint and multi-year roadmap in alignment with business strategy.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend modernization opportunities.
Promote shared platforms, integration patterns, and reusable architecture components.
Ensure architectural coherence across application, data, and technology portfolios.
Industry trends in cloud, AI, automation, data platforms, integration technologies, DevSecOps, and modern engineering practices.
Collaborate with solution architects to define scalable and adaptable enterprise solutions.
Lead enterprise architecture governance, standards, and design reviews.
Ensure architecture documentation standardized and maintained.
Balance near-term delivery with long-term architectural direction.
Embodies leadership competencies, effective behavioral and performance standards, and nurtures relationships within the architecture team and among peers/colleagues across IT.
Hires, mentors and develop architects across domains.
Plans and manage architecture consulting and advisory engagements.
Manage architecture-related budgets and forecasts.
Maintain expertise in emerging technologies and EA industry trends.
Continuously assess the applicability of new technologies.
Other duties as assigned.