Distinguished Enterprise Architect

Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

This hybrid position must be located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus to accommodate occasional on-site expectations based on business needs. The Distinguished Enterprise Architect provides enterprise-wide architecture leadership for strategic initiatives and complex technology challenges, serving as a trusted advisor to Architecture leadership and senior executives. The role helps define enterprise strategy, target-state direction, standards, technical doctrine, and multi-year direction within a strategic technology specialty, and advises on decisions with enterprise-wide impact and long-term organizational implications.

The role establishes specialty strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technical direction, and helps resolve complex challenges spanning organizational and technology boundaries. Through strategic advisory work, technology evaluation, architecture governance, and collaboration with executive leadership, the architect helps shape long-term enterprise technology direction. The position also mentors architects and senior technical leaders, contributes to architecture excellence, and represents Mayo Clinic in strategic engagements with vendors, research collaborators, standards organizations, and professional communities.

This is an individual-contributor appointment for exceptional, recognized expertise in a named strategic technology or architecture specialty. It sets enterprise specialty strategy, technical doctrine, target-state direction, standards, and precedent; solves unprecedented or systemic problems; and advises Architecture leadership and senior executives on decisions with enterprise-wide and multi-year consequences. Distinguished is a cross-cutting technical-authority overlay rather than routine ownership of a portfolio, platform operating backlog, or governance service.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or another relevant degree.
• 15 years of relevant technology experience.
• TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner or TOGAF 9 Certified certification required within 12 months of employment.
• Authorization to work and remain in the United States without Mayo Clinic sponsorship now or in the future.
• Demonstrated technical experience and architecture or technical leadership as a Principal, Chief, Distinguished, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or another relevant degree.
• Demonstrated architecture or technical leadership as a Principal, Chief, Distinguished, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority.
• TOGAF EA Leader credential.
• Experience defining enterprise-wide technology and architecture strategy.
• Experience developing standards, reference architectures, and technical guidance.
• Experience leading complex cross-organizational technology initiatives.
• Experience advising senior executives on technology direction, risk, and investment decisions.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and guiding adoption decisions.
• Experience solving highly complex technical and architectural challenges.
• Experience building alignment across multiple technology domains and stakeholder groups.
• Experience mentoring architects and senior technical leaders.
• Experience representing an organization in strategic vendor, research, and professional engagements.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-wide architecture leadership for strategic initiatives and complex technology challenges.
• Advise Architecture leadership and senior executives on enterprise-wide decisions and long-term technology direction.
• Define enterprise strategy, target-state direction, standards, technical doctrine, and multi-year direction within a strategic technology specialty.
• Establish specialty strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technical direction.
• Help resolve complex, unprecedented, or systemic challenges across organizational and technology boundaries.
• Evaluate technologies and guide technology choices with long-term organizational implications.
• Contribute to architecture governance and collaborate with executive leadership to shape enterprise technology direction.
• Mentor architects and senior technical leaders and contribute to architecture excellence.
• Represent Mayo Clinic in strategic engagements with vendors, research collaborators, standards organizations, and professional communities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior