Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Title: Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Direct reports: Core EA team (Enterprise Architects) and a federated EA operating model (as established) - provides dotted-line leadership to Federated Enterprise Architects in Security, Data and other business domains in the future.
Team size / scope: Leads a small Core EA team (typically 3–6) and drives alignment across a broader federated architecture community (Solution Architects and Domain Architects embedded in delivery and domain teams).

BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.

BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country.

Department maintains the network and is responsible for network connectivity.

Position Summary
The Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA), reports to the VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is the senior leader accountable for BJC’s enterprise-wide architectural direction (principles, governance, strategy, reference architectures, lifecycle management, and cross-domain coherence). This role leads the Core EA team in a federated EA operating model, defines and governs enterprise architecture principles and standards, and ensures coherent cross-domain decision-making across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration. The Director of EA partners closely with business and technology leadership, business relationship management, portfolio/program leadership, and domain capability owners to translate strategy into actionable roadmaps that accelerate delivery while reducing enterprise risk and fragmentation. This role ensures that architecture is a facilitator of execution, not a centralized bottleneck, by establishing clear decision rights, reusable guidance, and pragmatic governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise strategy to architecture translation: Partner with executive leadership and key stakeholders to translate business strategy into enterprise architecture direction, target states, and prioritized roadmaps.
• Own the EA governance model and decision rights: Define and run EA governance to promote speed, coherence, and value; ensure architectural decisions are made by the right role (enterprise, solution, domain) at the right time.
• Define enterprise principles, standards, and reference architectures: Establish and maintain enterprise-wide principles, standards, and reference models that enable consistent solution design and reduce fragmentation.
• Cross-domain alignment and arbitration: Facilitate cross-domain decision-making; arbitrate architectural conflicts and tradeoffs across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration.
• Roadmaps, lifecycle management, and modernization: Lead creation of enterprise modernization roadmaps and lifecycle strategies (e.g., platform and technology lifecycle management) aligned to business capabilities and risk posture.
• Architecture as a force multiplier for delivery: Ensure Solution Architects and Domain Architects have clear guardrails, patterns, and reusable assets so delivery teams can move quickly while remaining enterprise aligned.

Federated Team Structure and Collaboration

• Lead the Core EA team: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing EA core that serves as the custodian of enterprise direction, governance, standards, and best practices.

• Enable the federated architecture community: Establish operating rhythms, forums, and collaboration mechanisms that align Enterprise Architects positioned in other teams (e.g., Security, Data) and architects embedded in delivery.
• Develop architecture talent and role clarity: Maintain clear role boundaries across Enterprise, Solution, and Domain Architects (and Domain SMEs), including expectations, artifacts, and engagement points.
• Stakeholder engagement and influence: Communicate architecture direction in business-relevant terms; build trust with leaders by balancing risk management with delivery pragmatism.

Domain-Specific Responsibilities and Engagement Model

• Steward enterprise capabilities: Ensure enterprise-level ownership exists for critical cross-cutting capabilities (e.g., Integration Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Enterprise Data Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture) and that these capabilities produce actionable standards, patterns, and roadmaps.

• Integration and interoperability oversight: Promote an “interoperability first” mindset; prevent point-to-point sprawl through enterprise integration principles, reference architectures, and governance aligned with data and security.

• Risk, compliance, and resilience alignment: Ensure architecture guidance supports regulatory and privacy requirements (e.g., HIPAA/PHI), cybersecurity posture, resilience, and operational supportability.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and BRM team to shape roadmaps and determine demand scope.
• Guide application lifecycle and modernization roadmaps.
• Partner with other architects to ensure solution designs align to business capabilities, enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and security standards.
• Govern architectural alignment at key solution lifecycle checkpoints.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years in architecture roles with demonstrated enterprise-level impact (enterprise, solution, and/or domain architecture)
• 2-5 years proven leadership of an EA function, including governance, standards, and roadmap development in a complex organization
• Strong understanding across key enterprise domains: applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure (breadth with the ability to go deep when needed)
• Experience designing and operating federated models that embed architecture into delivery without sacrificing enterprise coherence
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management; ability to influence without direct control across federated teams
• Demonstrated ability to balance business value, speed-to-delivery, risk, security/privacy, and operational supportability in architectural decisions

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare industry experience and familiarity with clinical/non-clinical application ecosystems and interoperability needs
• Experience with enterprise integration (API-led, event-driven, messaging, managed file transfer)
• Familiarity with EHR (Epic) integration leveraging tools like Cloverleaf/Rhapsody to manage HL7/FHIR interfaces
• Cloud platform strategy and modernization experience (including Azure), infrastructure lifecycle management, and resilience planning
• Background in data architecture, analytics/AI enablement, and data governance operating models
• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent); security certification a plus.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree - IS/Business/related

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer

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