Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure

BJC HealthCare • St. Louis, MO

5d • Remote

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across the enterprise. This role owns enterprise direction, architectural coherence, and cross-domain alignment by translating business strategy into architecture principles, guardrails, reference architectures, lifecycle decisions, and roadmaps. The Enterprise Architect guides and governs rather than designing project-specific solutions or performing implementation work. We are looking for an Infrastructure Enterprise Architect. This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in MO or IL.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; master’s degree is a plus.
• 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in architecture roles spanning multiple technology or business domains.
• Demonstrated experience with architecture principles, governance models, reference architectures, portfolio analysis, modernization planning, and business capability-based planning.
• Broad knowledge across cloud, integration, data, security, infrastructure, and applications, with the ability to operate with breadth rather than deep implementation ownership.
• Strong working knowledge of architecture governance, cross-domain dependency management, and arbitrating architectural conflicts.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and influence skills in complex environments.
• Bach Deg and/or Equivalent Exp
• 5-10 years
• No Experience

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree is a plus.
• Bachelor's Degree
• 10+ years
• MS Azure Solns Arch Expert
• The Open Group Arch Framework

Responsibilities

• Collaborates to develop current state, future state architectures and implementation plans.
• Mentors solution architects in architecture development and execution of architecture processes.
• Reviews proposed architectures and provide guidance for mitigation of critical issues.
• Researches and collaborates with teams to identify relevant technology change drivers and opportunities that will impact the enterprise environment.
• Leads and mentors enterprise proof-of-concept efforts to insure alignment with business requirements and key principles.
• Develops technology roadmaps which have organizational support and commitment.
• Develops and presents planning, status and guidance documents that are audience appropriate.
• Develops enterprise and domain reference architectures and processes to provide technical guidance.
• Reviews and mentors architecture reviews and provides guidance for mitigation of critical issues.
• Facilitates and mentors solution development and implementation of strategic efforts as needed.
• Collaborates with technical teams and SMEs in the development, maintenance and publication of technology standards.
• Collaborates with multi-domain technology working groups to identify key issues and develop solution plans.
• Collaborates in events focused on information and perspective sharing with internal and external technology leaders and experts.
• Actively identifies and engages in efforts to assist with process guidance and information evaluation.
• Develops and shares processes that allow for consistent execution of analysis and decision making efforts.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

What This Job Offers

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