Enterprise Systems Architect

SSM Health • MO-REMOTE, MO

8d • Remote

About The Position

As an Enterprise Systems Architect, you’ll play a critical role in designing, evolving, and optimizing the core infrastructure that supports mission‑critical systems across the organization. This is a highly visible opportunity to influence enterprise architecture decisions while partnering with IT leaders and technical teams to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. We’re seeking candidates with strong technical infrastructure experience, including compute platforms, network protocols, storage technologies, data centers, and cloud environments. You’ll bring expert‑level knowledge of virtualization and cloud platforms, with a proven ability to translate business needs into modern, efficient architectural designs. Experience in cloud strategy and hybrid environments is key, with AWS expertise highly valued—an AWS Solutions Architect certification is preferred. If you’re driven by solving complex problems, shaping enterprise technology direction, and building forward‑looking infrastructure solutions, this role offers the scope, impact, and visibility to take your career to the next level.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent years of experience and education
• Seven years' experience
• Strong technical infrastructure experience, including compute platforms, network protocols, storage technologies, data centers, and cloud environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of virtualization and cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into modern, efficient architectural designs.
• Experience in cloud strategy and hybrid environments.

Nice To Haves

• AWS expertise highly valued
• AWS Solutions Architect certification is preferred

Responsibilities

• Develops an overall view of the organization's IT technology and operations in relation to its IT strategy.
• Oversees multiple architecture domains like application, data, security and technology and ensures they align with the organization's standards.
• Works with systems architects to create roadmaps for all domains, determine operational gaps and develops methods for improvement.
• Creates, maintains and enforces technology standards and processes for multiple IT domains.
• Review goals, processes and resource expenditures and recommends what level of resources are needed to support the organization's mission and strategy.
• Reviews existing process and proposes process improvements to help alignment of organizational strategies with the IT teams.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• One week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Instant access to earned, unpaid base pay before payday through DailyPay (fees may apply).
• Upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

What This Job Offers

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