LIS Beaker Solution Architect

About the position

The Solution Architect serves as a member of the leadership team responsible for defining the strategic technology roadmap to support the vision and goals for a specific area of focus. They are responsible for working with all levels of the organization to understand the business need and advise on technology solutions, and sequencing, that promote industry best practice and sustainability. The architect will partner with leaders responsible for budgeting, staff planning, implementation oversight and ongoing application support.

Responsibilities

• Serves as technical expert on the assigned team and in product selection
• Maintains an understanding of short and long-term strategy for the organization or assigned area of focus. Provides expert advice on solutions and industry standards to provide capability to meet business needs of the organization
• Stays up to date on industry best practice. Uses expertise to understand, modify and apply knowledge to solutions and processes internally.
• Develop and maintain relationships with team members at all levels of the organization, including executives
• Expert at facilitation, preparing materials to support collaborative discussion, and driving groups to consensus
• Prepares documents, diagrams, models, and other artifacts as required to communicate solution design, rollout strategy, and business needs and expected customer impact for solution selection and handoff to the implementation team
• Understands project lifecycle, post go live support requirements for downtime and disaster recovery
• Promotes adherence to Architectural standards and develops documentation of standards or guidelines for our organization. Actively contributes to internal repository to promote knowledge transfer.
• Promotes collaboration and establishes clear expectations around timelines and delivery
• Supports other architects by participating/coordinating in architecture reviews and architecture assurance boards
• Collaborates with all teams as required (e.g. Infrastructure, DBA, Network, HL7 Messaging, etc)
• Reviews business and technical requirements to develop and maintain solution designs throughout the project lifecycle
• Provide technical design direction and solutions for architectural and functional requirements so software is written or purchased with consistent forethought and support of enterprise standards.
• Evaluate the maturity and appropriateness of existing application portfolio, gauge viability against industry best practices and alignment with strategic business goals and requirements and recommend future state portfolio and roadmap.
• Serve as an expert and mentor for team members
• Peer review design deliverables for quality, consistence, thoroughness, and application of lessons learned from past reviews.
• Ensures solution designs adhere to cybersecurity best practices
• Assists with budget preparation and cost analysis for designed solutions
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in related field or 2:1 relevant experience.
• 5 or more years of experience.
• 2 or more years of leadership or management experience.
• Experience as an analyst, administrator, or developer implementing and supporting applications.

Nice-to-haves

• Masters Business Administration in related field.
• 8 or more years in related information systems field.
• Experience with Healthcare IT environment.
• Vendor experience developing or installing applications.