Senior Enterprise Architect (Hybrid)

American Medical Association•Chicago, IL

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Enterprise Architect joins the American Medical Association’s Digital Strategy team and provides a centralized, accurate view of how business capabilities, applications, technologies, data, vendors, and integrations work together across the enterprise. The role stewards the enterprise architecture repository, collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to maintain architecture information, identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities, and support governance, portfolio management, technology rationalization, and strategic planning through research, analysis, and recommendations. This hybrid role is based at the AMA’s Chicago corporate office and requires three days per week in the office. The position is exempt and eligible for participation in an incentive plan.

Requirements

At least five years of experience in enterprise architecture, business architecture, IT architecture, application portfolio management, technology portfolio management, IT governance, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience managing enterprise architecture information, business capability models, architecture repositories, or comparable portfolio-management systems.
Strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
High school diploma or equivalent education is required, or equivalent work experience.
A bachelor’s degree is preferred, or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

Maintain the enterprise architecture repository, including information about applications, business capabilities, technologies, vendors, interfaces, business units, and other architecture elements.
Create, update, and maintain relationships among capabilities, applications, technologies, vendors, owners, and integrations; analyze application dependencies and data-sharing needs to inform recommendations.
Apply data standards, naming conventions, classifications, lifecycle definitions, and required attributes to maintain consistent architecture information.
Monitor repository information for gaps, outdated or duplicate entries, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies; coordinate corrections with responsible stakeholders.
Conduct recurring reviews and certification activities with business and IT owners to keep architecture information current.
Maintain architecture views, dashboards, reports, and other repository content that communicate the enterprise’s current state.
Develop and refine business capability maps and hierarchies with business and IT stakeholders.
Facilitate the identification, definition, decomposition, and alignment of business capabilities across business functions.
Map business capabilities to applications, organizational units, processes, information, and other architecture elements to establish traceability between business needs and technology.
Identify overlaps, gaps, redundancies, and inconsistent capability definitions; analyze findings and develop recommendations for stakeholder review.
Establish and execute routine processes for collecting, validating, and maintaining enterprise architecture information from business and IT stakeholders.
Monitor data-quality metrics, reconcile information with authoritative enterprise sources, and coordinate resolution of data-quality issues.
Analyze application portfolio information, including licensing and utilization considerations, and develop recommendations based on identified trade-offs.
Maintain and evolve architectural principles, patterns, and reference models as advisory guidance.
Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards and identify areas requiring exception handling.
Document and track architectural exceptions and ensure visibility into their long-term impacts.
Advise teams adopting platforms, integration patterns, or data models by researching and analyzing options and recommending solutions.
Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to support coherence across domains.
Inform roadmap development through assessment and research of technical debt, modernization opportunities, and lifecycle considerations; develop recommendations.
Perform other responsibilities as assigned.