Solution Architect

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota • MN and WI Remote, MN

46d • Remote

About The Position

The Solution Architect is a subject matter expert responsible for the platform architecture, solution design, capability mapping, and technical roadmap within their specific area of focus. This role translates the overarching enterprise architecture strategy and standards into practical, detailed solution architectures for projects and initiatives within the assigned domain. The Domain Architect provides deep technical leadership, ensuring that domain-specific solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with both business needs and the enterprise technology direction. This role collaborates closely with Enterprise Architecture, other Domain Architects, and solution delivery teams to ensure cohesive and effective technology implementation that supports organizational goals. We are seeking a versatile and experienced IT professional with a strong foundation in data center architecture and cross-domain infrastructure technologies. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on expertise in server operating systems (Windows Server, Linux variants), enterprise storage solutions (SAN, NAS, DAS), and storage networking protocols (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF). Familiarity with platforms such as NetApp, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere is essential, along with proficiency in automation and scripting tools like Ansible, PowerShell, Python, and Terraform. Candidates should demonstrate a solid understanding of infrastructure orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm), backup and disaster recovery strategies (Commvault, Zerto), and high availability configurations. Experience with patch management, performance tuning, OS deployment, monitoring, and configuration management tools is highly valued. This role spans multiple IT disciplines and requires a collaborative mindset, adaptability, and a passion for optimizing and automating enterprise infrastructure.

Requirements

• BA/BS/MS or equivalent work experience, including 7+ years of infrastructure experience. Position requires formal education or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in Information Technology, with at least 3-5 years in a technical leadership or architecture role focused specifically within a relevant domain: Infrastructure, Public Cloud, Data and Analytics, Software Engineering, Networking and Connectivity, ITIL and Service Delivery, Modern Workforce, Endpoint and Mobile, or Information Security.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and implementing complex technical solutions within the specified domain.
• Demonstrated ability to translate high-level requirements and enterprise architecture guidelines into detailed, practical solution designs.
• Experience working directly with development/engineering teams to guide implementation and solution delivery.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture concepts.
• Deep technical expertise and hands-on experience in the specific domain
• Strong solution design and modeling skills (e.g., UML, sequence diagrams, data models relevant to the domain).
• Excellent analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical details to diverse audiences, including technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team environment and across different functional groups.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in Microsoft Office365 environment is required.
• Experience working within a ServiceNow incident management (ticket) environment is desired.
• Experience with infrastructure observability, logging, monitoring and tracing platforms is preferred.
• Experience with disaster recovery architectures, high availability, redundancy, failover/failback processes, backup solutions, etc. is preferred.
• Experience managing vendor relationships is desired.
• Experience collaborating on procurement and contract negotiations is desired.
• Experience working in a Healthcare environment is desired.
• Demonstrated experience developing strategic technology roadmaps and enterprise-level architecture blueprints.
• Hands-on expertise in server operating systems (Windows Server, Linux variants), enterprise storage solutions (SAN, NAS, DAS), and storage networking protocols (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF).
• Familiarity with platforms such as NetApp, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere is essential, along with proficiency in automation and scripting tools like Ansible, PowerShell, Python, and Terraform.
• Candidates should demonstrate a solid understanding of infrastructure orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm), backup and disaster recovery strategies (Commvault, Zerto), and high availability configurations.
• Experience with patch management, performance tuning, OS deployment, monitoring, and configuration management tools is highly valued.
• Collaborative mindset, adaptability, and a passion for optimizing and automating enterprise infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the platform architecture
• Responsible for solution design
• Responsible for capability mapping
• Responsible for technical roadmap within their specific area of focus
• Translates the overarching enterprise architecture strategy and standards into practical, detailed solution architectures for projects and initiatives within the assigned domain
• Provides deep technical leadership, ensuring that domain-specific solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with both business needs and the enterprise technology direction
• Collaborates closely with Enterprise Architecture, other Domain Architects, and solution delivery teams to ensure cohesive and effective technology implementation that supports organizational goals

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• retirement
• other fringe benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees