Enterprise Research IT Architect

IT@JH Research IT Solutions is seeking an Enterprise Research IT Architect who will be the senior-most technical expert in the research IT organization. The architect ensures the organization’s technical architecture aligns with the core principles of Johns Hopkins and incorporates value, security, performance, compliance, diversity and inclusion, and reproducibility and rigor.

This leader develops and manages the technical standards, patterns, and architectures for the University research IT group. Works to continuously improve the program and actively communicate it to the broader community. They also work closely across the Hopkins environment, including with researchers, research administration, compliance and information security, healthcare IT, all components of IT@JH, and school IT organizations, to establish a university-wide set of patterns and technology sets.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Partners directly with all levels of the organization, including healthcare IT, research leadership, research administration, and investigator teams, and works closely with the community to understand requirements, design principles, and workflow. They document and evaluates information for patterns to inform strategy and roadmap.
• Serves as the technical lead on projects and major initiatives, ensuring quality and excellence throughout their lifecycle in order to lead to successful outcomes. In many instances, they will be deployed to high priority University/Medicine initiatives as well as program grants and initiatives.
• Serves on the University IT’s leadership team. In this role, they contribute to all aspects of the organization design and operations to help ensure it aligns with Hopkins strategy and objectives as well as ensuring its high performance.
• Sets strategic plans, foster a collaborative culture, facilitate budget management, respond to high priority issues, and find and converge on opportunities.
• Leads research into innovative technologies and engineering practices to determine opportunities and challenges. They work with their program and technical partners to make recommendations, and as appropriate, implement them.
• Engages the Hopkins community as well as peer institutions in advancing the state of research IT principles and technologies.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on information security and compliance regulations and translates the regulations into technical implementations.
• Assists with conceptualizing solutions for proposals and facilitates implementations for research awards as required.
• Participates in education opportunities, including class lectures and presentations, workshops, and community sessions.

Specific Devices, Software, Projects

Research IT overall technical architecture

• The architect leads the development of the Hopkins Research IT architecture and its associated components.
• This involves multiple best-in-class enterprise applications and associated components.
• The architect works with key technologists within the organization to incorporate their patterns and components in the architecture as appropriate.

Research IT applications and services

• The architect leads the technical design and implementation of the suite of supported IT services and applications.
• These include discovery, laboratory, electronic data capture, training grants, research portal, and cloud-based research platforms.

IT standards

• Champions and implements IT standards for research IT across the enterprise to enable greater consistency and interoperability.
• Integration patterns: develops and operationalizes best practices for integrating multiple information technology systems together to enable data integrity, data timeliness, and data quality.

Compliance

• Facilitates the federal, state, local, and international compliance regulations for research IT solutions, based on the sponsor and institution’s requirements.

Artificial Intelligence

• Evaluates and recommends opportunities to leverage AI for research IT implementations.
• Also looks at technical patterns and opportunities to enable the use of AI in a responsible and ethnical manner.

Modernizing research IT platforms

• Serves as a technical expert to help investigators and their teams modernize their IT solutions, where appropriate, to ensure a greater level of security, minimize risk to the institution, and facilitate greater opportunities for analysis and research.

Community Engagement

• Facilitates the engagement of these communities of practices around the use of resea