Chief Technology Officer / Vice Chair - Enterprise Architecture

The Vice Chair of Enterprise Architecture provides strategic leadership for enterprise architecture services across Mayo Clinic, including clinical, research, education, administration, and business units. This role is responsible for translating the technology vision and strategy established by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) into enterprise architectural requirements, standards, and roadmaps that can be implemented by engineering and product teams across the Digital Technology Organization. The Vice Chair leads the development and governance of architecture frameworks, reference models, and enterprise standards that ensure alignment with Mayo Clinic’s strategic objectives, technical direction, and regulatory requirements.

This role collaborates closely with the CIO, peer Vice Chairs, and cross-functional technology and business leaders to ensure architecture enables innovation, interoperability, scalability, and business value. The Vice Chair reports to the CIO and is a member of the Department of Information Technology’s Executive Leadership team. The scope includes Mayo Clinic Rochester, Mayo Clinic Health System, Florida, Arizona, and all Mayo Clinic business entities.

Reports to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and serves as a member of the IT Executive Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Create and execute an enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap, in alignment with organizational strategy and technology priorities, that defines standards, guardrails, and principles. This vision must deliver the needed flexibility and speed to serve both the operational needs and innovation aims of Mayo Clinic.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance activities in service to the Technology Enablement Committee  and in partnership with other technology leaders.
• Ensure architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), multi-cloud environments, data management, microservices, APIs, DevOps, and containerization are leveraged to support organizational objectives.

Architecture Development & Governance

• Define and maintain enterprise, domain, solution, and application architectures aligned to Mayo’s business and technology goals.
• Establish and chair the architecture review functions to ensure architectural integrity, reuse, and alignment across all technology initiatives.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, reusable design patterns, and standards to accelerate solution delivery.
• Oversee architecture compliance, ensuring designs meet cybersecurity, data governance, and regulatory (HIPAA, SOX, GDPR) requirements.
• Partner with engineering and delivery leaders to ensure architectural direction is implemented effectively and consistently.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborate with peer Vice Chairs (in Information Technology, Center for Digital Health, Risk/OIS) to ensure alignment between enterprise architecture and technology delivery.
• Work closely with physician and administrative partners, business owners, and shield leaders to ensure architecture decisions meet clinical, research, and business needs.
• Build trusted relationships with technology vendors and strategic partners to advance Mayo Clinic’s architectural capabilities and innovation agenda.
• Work jointly with Finance, HR, and administrative teams on architecture-related strategy execution, ensuring transparency and cross-functional collaboration.

Architectural Operations & Excellence

• Ensure the delivery of effective and efficient enterprise architecture services, processes, and governance that enable timely and high-quality technology outcomes.
• Establish and monitor architecture maturity, value metrics, and performance indicators to drive continuous improvement and transparency.
• Collaborate with the CIO and technology finance leaders to ensure architectural investments and standards drive cost-effective and sustainable operations.
• Champion technology simplification and modernization initiatives that reduce complexity, enhance performance, and improve interoperability across Mayo’s technology ecosystem.

Team Leadership, Culture, and Talent Development

• Inspire, mentor, and guide architects and engineers across enterprise, solution, domain, and application roles to build a world-class architecture community.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning, emp