Associate Vice President of Enterprise Architecture

POSITION OVERVIEW

As Associate Vice President of Enterprise Architecture (AVP, EA) you will lead the technical architecture mission and strategy for the organization, ensuring our enterprise architecture evolves in step with our business strategy, assessment product roadmaps, internal staff needs, and emerging technologies. To achieve this, you will partner with business and IT leaders to shape the next generation of NBME business capabilities and technology that enables them. And you will consider how solutions integrate into our current and future enterprise landscape.

This role has been designated as primarily remote, meaning it requires little to no onsite attendance. While this role can be designated as remote, you are offered the flexibility to select if you prefer to work primarily remotely, hybrid, or onsite. We're open to considering candidates residing in the following states: DE, NJ, MD, PA, or VA

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the healthcare community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come.

1. ABOUT THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE TEAM
   

   The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team plays a strategic role in enabling NBME's business outcomes by aligning technology standards and decisions with organizational goals. EA provides guidance that maximizes value to NBME through cost-effective, secure, and sustainable technology solutions. The team fosters collaboration and flexibility across IT and business units, promoting practical governance that supports innovation and agility.

   Enterprise Architects set clear technology guardrails and help establish reusable solutions and patterns that improve architectural integrity and efficiency. They also encourage experimentation and adoption of emerging technologies while balancing enterprise-wide priorities with specific business and technology needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Align architecture with strategy: Develops and maintains relationships with key business leaders across the organization to align technology strategy and standards with NBME's strategic goals and assessment product roadmaps.
• Govern architecture with guardrails, not gates: Develops and maintains enterprise architecture frameworks, patterns, and standards which function as guardrails for implementation teams. Strikes the right balance between ensuring compliance with architectural standards and making tactical exceptions to ensure flexibility required for innovation and optimal business outcomes. Responsible for application policy and architecture governance processes.
• Enable agile delivery: Leads a team of architects embedded within Agile business capability development teams to guide them on the design of solutions within the EA guardrails, ensuring balance between enterprise consistency and team autonomy.