Patient Room Technology Architect

University of Utah Health•Salt Lake City, UT

42d•Onsite

About The Position

The In-Patient Technology Architect defines and governs the enterprise architecture for technologies used directly by patients and clinicians in exam rooms and patient rooms. The role provides domain ownership for in‑room and bedside solutions, ensuring they are safe, scalable, secure, and consistently deployable across facilities, while aligning technology decisions to clinical workflows, patient experience, privacy, and infrastructure requirements. University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system with five hospitals including a level 1 trauma center, eleven community health centers, over 1,600 providers, and a health plan serving over 200,000 members. University of Utah Health is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. In addition to our clinical delivery system, we have a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Health providing education and training for over 1,250 providers annually. We have over 2 million patient visits annually and research grants exceeding $350 million. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics represents our clinical operations for the larger health system.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or related field or equivalent experience.
Three years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technical design roles (healthcare or regulated environments preferred).
Experience designing solutions that connect physical room‑based technologies with enterprise IT services and clinical workflows.
Strong understanding of privacy, security, and compliance considerations for patient‑facing technologies and environments that handle sensitive data.
Proven ability to operate independently, document architecture decisions, and influence cross‑functional stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Innovation mentality.
Experience with smart room, bedside, or patient engagement technologies and point‑of‑care workflows.
Familiarity with healthcare interoperability and integration concepts (e.g., interface patterns and secure data exchange approaches).
Experience partnering across IT, clinical, and facilities teams in build/renovation or multi‑site deployment contexts.
Software engineering and software prototyping experience.
Hardware and software product management skills.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain enterprise reference architectures, standards, and guardrails for patient‑facing and point‑of‑care room technologies.
Lead solution architecture for exam‑room and patient‑room capabilities (e.g., patient engagement, in‑room interaction, bedside workflows).
Establish repeatable integration patterns between patient‑facing solutions and enterprise platforms (clinical systems, identity, network, infrastructure).
Perform architectural assessments of patient‑facing vendors/solutions and document design decisions, tradeoffs, and target‑state architectures.
Reduce fragmentation and rework by promoting standard designs and shared platforms across facilities and care settings.
Partner with Clinical Operations, Facilities/Construction, Information Security/Privacy, Infrastructure/Network, and Identity teams to ensure designs meet operational constraints and compliance obligations.
Participate in (and help mature) intake, discovery, and architecture review processes for patient‑facing initiatives; ensure decisions are captured and reusable.
Define architectural criteria and governance checkpoints for new patient‑room technologies to ensure consistent deployment, supportability, and risk management.
Translate clinical and patient experience needs into target‑state architectures and a practical modernization roadmap for patient‑facing technologies.
Influence stakeholders through clear architecture rationale, risk/benefit analysis, and alignment to patient safety, reliability, and privacy principles.
Communicate architecture standards and decisions effectively to both technical and clinical audiences; enable adoption through patterns, templates, and guidance.