Department

INFORMATION SYSTEMS - 108231

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Work Shift

Pay Grade

813

Job Description

The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the Valley Health System (VHS) leaders, clinical and business, who are representing the feature and functionality of technical and application solutions (product owners), and the distributed clinical and business applications delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business and clinical strategy, outcomes and capabilities. The Enterprise Architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability, with a focus on development of the business and IT strategy and Information Technology enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

Responsibilities and Duties

Facilitates alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape.

Engages business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.

Adapts to changing business and operating models.

Analyzes trends and disruptions and assesses their impact on targeted business outcomes.

Tells stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.

Supports various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric.

Communicates the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services.

Drives the evolution of the EA and leading Solutions Architects in support of their clinical or business solutions and services and operating model within the Open Group Architecture Framework. (TOGAF)

Coaches and mentors solutions architects, clinical and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking when evaluating existing or new solution strategies.

Brings Alignment Across Operations and IT

• Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Works with the CIO, CMIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives.
• Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business, informatics and IT.

Works with Leadership Stakeholders to Develop Strategy

• Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces. Understands the healthcare landscape and business’s economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s technology strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of technical roadmaps to align to healthcare business strategy.
• Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state architecture business models leveraging the TOGAF Framework.

Connects Strategy to Execution

• Facilitates clinical, business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.

Builds the EA Value Proposition and Structures Business Engagement

• Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal consultancy and leader, developing the competency of the Solutions Architects in supporting service design and framework skills across a Community of Practice of Solutions Architecture that will support the development and