UMass Chan Medical School is hiring an Enterprise Architect for ForHealth Consulting. You will be responsible for designing, managing, and optimizing enterprise technology and solution architecture to support our strategic objectives. This role works collaboratively across departments to ensure effective integration of systems, processes, and technologies.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain relationships as a trusted advisor, enabling cross-organizational collaboration.
- Partner with executive, business unit, and technology leaders to understand priorities and provide strategic guidance on technology standards and solutions.
- Support business development and client relationship management, representing Digital Solutions in sales opportunities, proposals, and client meetings.
- Define and propose architecture and solutions for new client and market opportunities.
- Support the capture process by collaborating with business units, proposal teams, IT solution teams, and subject matter experts.
- Provide oversight and supervision of the Capture Team’s activities.
- Design end-to-end architectures (business, data, application, and tech layers) for related ecosystems.
- Contribute to proposal responses, statements of work, estimation, pricing, and presentations with technical expertise.
- Develop and maintain an up-to-date enterprise architecture road map aligned with ForHealth’s goals and client objectives.
- Collaborate with IT solution teams to identify, select, design, and deliver solutions that enhance system interoperability, scalability, and security.
- Continuously assess ForHealth’s technology portfolio; identify opportunities for consolidation, modernization, innovation, and improved interoperability.
- Lead strategic technology decisions, including analysis and recommendation of platform, capability, or common solution opportunities, and build/buy options.
- Develop, document, and promote enterprise architecture frameworks and strategies to deliver a cohesive, efficient technology portfolio.
- Develop, communicate, and enforce enterprise architecture standards, policies, guidelines, and governance.
- Define architecture standards to support interoperability and enable system integration across disparate systems for real-time data exchange.
- Collaborate with Business Intelligence to define data architecture to support enterprise analytics and evolving market opportunities.
- Provide architectural oversight for major IT initiatives, projects, and vendor/partner engagements; assist with business case development and risk assessments.
- Monitor and evaluate emerging technologies and trends; assess potential impacts and benefits to ForHealth Consulting.
- Identify opportunities for technology to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and create competitive advantage.
- Prepare detailed technology and architecture analysis, diagrams, documentation, and recommendations; present complex concepts to stakeholders.
- Work closely with Security Architect to integrate privacy-by-design and secure-by-default principles.
- Participate in and support IT planning, governance, and budgeting processes.
- Support change management, communication, and adoption efforts related to IT initiatives.
- Continuously assess and improve the enterprise architecture to adapt to changing health care and market landscapes.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience in IT architecture, design and delivery
- Proven ability to architect enterprise solutions in complex environments
- Business development and capture experience, including solutioning, proposal development and presentation
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective partnerships and serve as a trusted advisor
- Deep experience with current technology trends, architectures, platforms, data, and security requirements
- Excellent analysis, communication, facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Proven ability to influence and lead in a matrixed environment
Nice to Have
- Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect)
- Background and experience in human services, healthcare, and public sector markets
- IT architecture experience in consulting, product or service delivery organization
- Demonstrated history of successfully leading technology transformation and optimization projects
- Familiarity with relevant industry, state, federal and international security and compliance standards
Team & Environment
This role reports to the Digital Solutions Managing Director and provides supervision to the Capture Team.
UMass Chan Medical School is an equal opportunity employer.
