Principal Solution Architect

Job Posting Title:

Principal Solution Architect

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Hiring Department:

Dell Medical School

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

AUSTIN, TX

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Job Details:

General Notes

The Office of Information Technology at the Dell Medical School is looking for a Principal Solution Architect.

Under the direction of the CTO, this position is a strategic leader for the technology department and the broader University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by the Dell Medical School organization, facilitating the overall solution architecture, design and implementation of platforms and capabilities to meet the needs of a new Academic Medical Center.

Key to the role is the ability to translate vision into tangible roadmaps and drive subsequent action by building the right coalition across the institution.  Assignments will run the spectrum of education, research, clinical, administrative, digital, IT transformation, and hospital build, with the ability to effectively lead changes to accomplish both short-term and long-term objectives. Of special importance are the multi-year EHR, ERP, Digital and IT transformation programs, both individually and together.

The Principal Solution Architect with work directly with the leadership and staff throughout the technology organization as well as with research and clinical leaders. Collaboration with UT Austin main campus IT, UT System, and other healthcare organizations across UT is a key part of this role.  Occasional travel to UT locations can be expected.

The right candidate is a continuous learner, has architecture and platform leadership experience from complex environments, and is accomplished in managing architecture activities across multiple large transformation programs. Independent stakeholder management and coalition building is expected, enabled by great communication skills. 

Core architecture tradecraft deliverables, the creation of which the Principal Solution Architect will lead, include: 

• Tangible architecture principles to be followed by the rest of the technology organization, associated escalation model for the (few) cases where agreement cannot be achieved on the ground in a project.

• Architecture and technology roadmap as the tangible embodiment of our platform milestone roadmap. 

• Current and complete technology solution catalog (including all UT Medical Center sourced, main campus sourced and research team sourced solutions) 

• Mapping and triaging all current technology solutions against our platform landscape, creating a roadmap for what to phase out and when.

• Informed triage of new technology requests, including vendor technology evaluations and platform strategy fit.

• Standards and templates for solution and integration architecture designs. 

• Solution and integration architecture designs for the EHR, ERP, Digital and IT transformation initiatives.

• Solution architectures and technology designs to serve human health research needs acro