Enterprise Architect - 2262

Valley Health•Winchester, VA

37d

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the Valley Health System (VHS) leaders, clinical and business, who are representing the feature and functionality of technical and application solutions (product owners), and the distributed clinical and business applications delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business and clinical strategy, outcomes and capabilities. The Enterprise Architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability, with a focus on development of the business and IT strategy and Information Technology enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field is required.
(10) years of experience working in the healthcare industry is required.
(10) years of experience in strategic technology planning and execution is required.
(15) years of experience in technology operations management is required.
TOGAF certification is required.
Strong organizational, analytical, and communications skills are necessary.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Information Technology, Informatics, or Business is preferred.

Responsibilities

Facilitates alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape.
Engages business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
Adapts to changing business and operating models.
Analyzes trends and disruptions and assesses their impact on targeted business outcomes.
Tells stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
Supports various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric.
Communicates the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services.
Drives the evolution of the EA and leading Solutions Architects in support of their clinical or business solutions and services and operating model within the Open Group Architecture Framework. (TOGAF)
Coaches and mentors solutions architects, clinical and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking when evaluating existing or new solution strategies.
Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
Works with the CIO, CMIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.
Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business, informatics and IT.
Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces.
Understands the healthcare landscape and business’s economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s technology strategy, direction, and architecture.
Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of technical roadmaps to align to healthcare business strategy.
Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state architecture business models leveraging the TOGAF Framework.
Facilitates clinical, business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.
Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal consultancy and leader, developing the competency of the Solutions Architects in supporting service design and framework skills across a Community of Practice of Solutions Architecture that will support the development and execution of business strategy.
Develops a practice that can align and support the portfolio under the Strategic Project Management Office, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business, clinical and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
Leads and facilitates interaction with business clinical leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
Leads a collaborative community of solutions architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.
Develops the Business Architecture Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business, clinical and IT.
Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy, while maintaining a focus on regulatory, compliance and patient safety.
Develops diagnostic and action-oriented enterprise architectural deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
Assesses disruptive forces affecting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy.
Contextualizes trends based on technological, political, economic, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal, and environmental (TPESTRE) trends to enhance their strategic decision making.
Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the healthcare delivery operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
Runs pilots to create new products and services and integrate the best of these into steady-state operations for the organization.
Maintains the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, (i.e. TOGAG) reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.
Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.
Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Benefits

At Valley Health, we believe everyone is a caregiver, and our goal is to create an environment where our caregivers thrive physically, financially, and emotionally.
In addition to a competitive salary, our most popular benefits for full-time employees include:
A Zero-Deductible Health Plan
Dental and vision insurance
Generous Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance
Retirement Savings Match
A Robust Employee Assistance Program to help with many aspects of emotional wellbeing
Membership to Healthy U: An Incentive-Based Wellness Program
Valley Health also offers a health savings account & flexible spending account for childcare, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and professional development.
In addition, several perks come with working for the largest employer in the region, such as discounts to on-campus dining, and more.
To see the full scale of what we offer, visit valleyhealthbenefits.com.