Enterprise Architect

Vizient•Chicago, IL

About The Position

In this role, you will serve as a strategic, cross-domain technical leader supporting non-D&D business units as part of Vizient’s Enterprise Architecture function. You will partner with business, product, CorpIT, engineering, data, and shared services leaders to shape scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions; define reference architectures and guardrails; make enterprise tradeoffs visible; and guide modernization efforts across applications, integrations, platforms, and technology domains. This role helps preserve enterprise coherence in a federated delivery model by providing early architecture engagement, technical leadership, and governance support through the Architecture Review Committee.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
10 or more years of progressive experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture across complex business and technology environments.
Proven experience designing and guiding architectures across multiple domains, including applications, integrations, platforms, cloud, and enterprise technology services.
Demonstrated success partnering with business leaders, product teams, delivery organizations, and shared services to shape and influence enterprise-impacting decisions.
Strong understanding of architecture patterns and methods, including APIs, event-driven architectures, integration patterns, cloud-native services, security-by-design, and modernization approaches.
Experience creating architecture artifacts such as solution overviews, system context diagrams, container views, integration/data flow views, decision records, and target-state roadmaps.
Ability to assess and communicate technical tradeoffs, technical debt, operational impacts, and enterprise risks to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence, mentor, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
Working knowledge of modern enterprise architecture practices, including governance, reference architectures, agile engagement models, and AI-aware architecture planning.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-domain architecture for complex initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise principles, standards, and target-state direction.
Partner with business units, CorpIT, product, engineering, and shared services teams to translate business goals and technical needs into practical architecture guidance.
Create and maintain reference architectures, reusable patterns, and decision frameworks across application, integration, platform, and technology domains.
Guide solution shaping early in the lifecycle by identifying enterprise dependencies, integration implications, technical risks, and reuse opportunities.
Support modernization efforts involving cloud platforms, API-first design, event-driven patterns, automation, platform simplification, and emerging technologies.
Surface and evaluate architectural tradeoffs across cost, risk, speed, supportability, scalability, and long-term flexibility.
Identify, communicate, and help prioritize technical debt, duplicated capabilities, and architectural risks across business-unit portfolios.
Represent Enterprise Architecture in governance forums, including the Architecture Review Committee, by clarifying enterprise impact, exceptions, and standards alignment.
Mentor architects, engineers, and analysts while helping build architectural maturity, stronger decision quality, and greater enterprise consistency across teams.