Sr. Enterprise Architect Principal - EHR
About The Position
GDIT is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Architect Principal to serve as the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Service Chief Engineer, providing senior level technical leadership, architectural oversight, and engineering governance across a complex, largescale EHR ecosystem. This role supports mission-critical health IT operations and modernization efforts, guiding the design, integration, performance, and security of enterprise EHR services. As an Sr. Enterprise Architect Principal, you will act as the highest-level engineering consultant to program leadership and customer stakeholders. You will define and orchestrate technical strategy, drive innovation, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure systems meet reliability, interoperability, and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise health IT, EHR systems, or complex systems engineering.
- Demonstrated experience supporting major commercial EHR platforms (Cerner/Oracle Health, Epic, etc.) required.
- Expertise in system architecture, cloud engineering, interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM), and infrastructure modernization.
- Experience leading engineering strategy in large, regulated, mission-focused environments.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- Must be able to travel up to 25%.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience with federal healthcare agencies (VA, DoW, DHA, CMS, etc.).
- Prior experience as a chief engineer on a large-scale EHR deployment.
- Relevant certifications: AWS/Azure Architect, ITIL, CPHIMS, CISSP, PMP, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with GDIT engineering frameworks, governance processes, and lifecycle methodologies.
- Strong analytical, communication, and technical advisory skills.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority for engineering, integration, and architecture across the EHR service portfolio and/or EHR customers.
- Develop and maintain enterprise-level engineering strategy, roadmaps, and modernization plans.
- Lead technical reviews, architectural governance, and engineering decision-making for major initiatives.
- In coordination with customer-side engineering leadership, define the engineering process and gates for the program.
- Drive and mentor systems engineering rigor across the program for new deployments, capabilities, enhancements and change.
- Provide engineering oversight of EHR platforms, including workflows, infrastructure, cloud services, interfaces, and data exchange.
- Ensure the environment meets standards for availability, performance, scalability, and cybersecurity.
- Direct root-cause analysis for critical incidents and drive implementation of long-term corrective actions.
- Assess emerging technologies and recommend strategic enhancements aligned with mission and program goals.
- Collaborate with product owners, system integrators, cybersecurity teams, and operations leads to resolve complex technical challenges.
- Mentor engineering teams and provide guidance to support workforce development and technical excellence.
- Support proposal development, technical briefings, program reviews, and customer engagements.
Benefits
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
- Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
