Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Location: Remote (Eastern or Central Time Zone Preferred)

Employment Type: Full-Time

W2 Candidates only, No 3rd party calls or emails will be returned.

Industry: Healthcare Technology

Our client is seeking an Enterprise Architect to join a growing Enterprise Architecture practice supporting enterprise-wide technology strategy, governance, and modernization initiatives. This role will play a key part in helping define future-state architecture, support strategic technology planning, maintain enterprise architecture repositories, and ensure alignment between business capabilities and technology investments.

This is an excellent opportunity for an architect who enjoys balancing strategic planning, architecture governance, and cross-functional collaboration while helping shape the organization's technology roadmap and enterprise architecture capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Enterprise Roadmaps

• Translate business goals, strategic initiatives, and business capabilities into clear current-state and target-state architecture views
• Contribute to enterprise technology roadmaps by identifying dependencies, sequencing activities, and promoting reusable architecture patterns
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, capability models, roadmaps, and supporting documentation within LeanIX and related tools
• Support strategic planning initiatives by providing architecture guidance and decision-ready insights
• Evaluate solution impacts across applications, infrastructure, security, data, and business operations
• Ensure architectural designs align with security, resilience, disaster recovery, backup, compliance, and business continuity requirements

Enterprise Architecture & Governance

• Lead and support Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Architecture Advisory Board (AAB) activities
• Review architecture proposals and solution designs while facilitating discussions and documenting decisions, risks, and action items
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
• Maintain current-state and future-state architecture models, including application portfolios, technology capabilities, system relationships, and dependencies
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles

Architecture Repository & Solution Analysis

• Own and maintain LeanIX and associated architecture repositories to ensure data quality, completeness, accuracy, and traceability
• Create architecture diagrams, topology views, capability maps, integration diagrams, and technology landscape documentation
• Identify and resolve integration and compatibility challenges by mapping interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and system ownership
• Analyze technology lifecycle, capacity planning, scalability, and operational considerations in partnership with domain architects and engineering teams
• Facilitate architecture workshops and collaborative planning sessions with business and technology stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Business Architecture, Systems Architecture, or related technology leadership roles
• Experience developing current-state and future-state architecture models
• Experience creating architecture artifacts, diagrams, roadmaps, and technical documentation
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems, integrations, dependencies, and technology planning
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions and influence stakeholders across multiple teams
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter with a consultative mindset and the ability to work independently

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare IT experience
• Experience with LeanIX or similar Enterprise Architecture platforms
• Experience supporting Architecture Review Boards (ARB) or architecture governance processes
• Experience with Lucidchart, Visio, or similar architecture modeling tools
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps and Agile delivery environments
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms and architecture patterns
• Exposure to Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or similar methodologies
• Experience with business capability modeling, application portfolio management, and enterprise governance practices

Why This Opportunity?

• Direct visibility into executive-level technology initiatives
• Opportunity to contribute to a multi-year enterprise technology roadmap
• Significant involvement in architecture strategy, governance, and modernization efforts
• Collaborative leadership team with strong support for professional development
• Opportunity to grow within a mature and evolving Enterprise Architecture organization
• Remote work environment with preference for Eastern and Central Time Zone candidates