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PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Clinical Systems

Sentara
Virginia, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/11/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/11/2026

Overview

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides strategic and technical leadership in the development and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks that align information systems, infrastructure, and applications with business processes and data. This role enables improved efficiency, scalability, and productivity across the organization by ensuring technology investments support current and future business and clinical objectives.

The Principal Enterprise Architect leads the analysis of the current IT environment to identify gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities, and defines target-state architectures, reference models, standards, patterns, and roadmaps that guide enterprise transformation. This role evaluates system interactions, dependencies, total cost of ownership, and return on investment to inform architectural decisions and technology direction.

With a primary focus on Clinical Systems, and supporting other enterprise initiatives as capacity allows, the Principal Enterprise Architect collaborates across application, domain, solution, infrastructure, and security architecture teams to deliver balanced, enterprise-wide architectural outcomes. The role provides governance oversight, mentors architects and engineers, and serves as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural strategy, cloud adoption, and emerging technologies.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred

8 years of relevant experience with a degree 

10 years of relevant experience without a degree 

Certification/Licensure

Preferred AWS/Azure/Google Professional Architect, Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA).

Experience Requirements

  • Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.
  • Five or more years of experience in Software development.
  • Proven experience in designing and architecting solutions and processes, preferably in a large-scale healthcare organization (hospital).
  • Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, security, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
  • Deep knowledge of value stream maps, persona development, design thinking, customer journey, etc.
  • Experience in technologies such as mobile, AI, data center, infrastructure, cloud (Azure, AWS), data streaming, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing and digital experiences technologies.
  • Experience in Patient care, Clinical Support, Pharmacy and Revenue cycle management applications is required (e.g., Epic, PACS, Waystar etc.)
  • Experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, draw.io, SharePoint, Mural etc.,
  • Experience with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman, FEAF etc.
  • Experience modeling architecture viewpoints in EA tools.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is:$106,080.00-$176,820.80. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000

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