Senior Technical Architect

Company Description

At Northwestern Medicine, every patient interaction makes a difference in cultivating a positive workplace. This patient-first approach is what sets us apart as a leader in the healthcare industry. As an integral part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to join our quest for better healthcare, no matter where you work within the Northwestern Medicine system. At Northwestern Medicine, we pride ourselves on providing competitive benefits: from tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness to 401(k) matching and lifecycle benefits, we take care of our employees. Ready to join our quest for better?

Job Description

The Senior Technical Architect, reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The primary function of the Senior Technical Architect is to provide facilitation, analysis, design, and execution of solution architecture for an architectural domain and ensure it is leveraged. 

Northwestern Medicine Information Services drives innovative, high-value solutions to transform health care.  

We are committed to supporting the relentless pursuit of better medicine by providing exceptional service to our patients and guests as well as internal clients across the organization. To ensure excellence, our team goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that our systems work together seamlessly. 

Northwestern Medicine understands that technology plays an integral role in shaping the future of health care. Information Services strategically supports the organization by:  

• Leveraging AI, automation and rollout of advanced cyber controls that support digital transformation strategies 
• Implementing advanced technologies in clinical and administrative areas  
• Furthering development of the end user support model to help enhance modern infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor other architects (business, information, application, software, technology). Define key solutions and ensure they are managed.  
• Define principles to guide solution decisions for the enterprise.  
• Define models, including solution patterns, to guide solution decisions for the enterprise.  
• Create, document, and communicate the integration approach of all the components of the architecture.  
• Analyze enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints, to derive the enterprise solution architecture change requirements to guide solution decisions for the enterprise.  
• Research, analyze, determine capabilities and propose solution alternatives that address specific business needs and product/service strategies across Lines of Businesses.  
• Develop road maps describing the evolution of all enterprise solution portfolios from current state to future state.  
• Perform design reviews of solutions to ensure the design aligns and supports the specified architecture.  
• Consult with application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise solution architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the solution architecture to accommodate project needs.  
• Ensure that project management or solution delivery life cycle efforts and project architects specifically leverage all aspects of enterprise architecture (EA) separately by enterprise architecture viewpoint (for example, business, information, application, software, and technology) and via guidance at the enterprise solution architecture level across those viewpoints.  
• Work closely with the leaders of projects and initiatives to ensure alignment of architecture in plans and project delivery.  
• Understand and advocate for the principles of business and IT strategies, as well as of enterprise architecture development and service delivery.  
• Be prepared to "sell" the EA process (overall, not just for enterprise solution architecture), its outcome and ongoing results, and to lead the communication, marketing or educational activities needed to ensure enterprise solution architecture success and use.  
• Review all project and enterprise solution architecture.  
• Demonstrate strong technical knowledge and familiarity with how portfolios of systems work together to create enterprise solutions. 
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust, confidence and intellectual integrity with both Business and IT partners. 
• Support of enterprise tools needed for development and QA processes. 
• Work with each line of business to ensure the successful adoption and use