Principal Infrastructure SME

Position: Principal Infrastructure SME

Location: Pittsburgh/Camp Hill, PA (REMOTE)

Duration: Full-time employment

Job Description:

The Principal Infrastructure SME serves as one of the most senior infrastructure architects and technologists in the company. This person will be instrumental in turning strategy into practical, pattern-based architecture in alignment with business needs. The candidate will regularly interact with senior level leadership, simplifying complex problems and needs into a relatable narrative that enhances decision making. They will act as a driver for infrastructure strategy, championing the direction and synergies across our business units and corporate functions. This job will act as a "technology visionary" for infrastructure, with the ability to influence strategy and behaviors within areas of responsibility and throughout the company. This job requires experience in all areas of architecture with an emphasis on infrastructure and cloud technologies. The ability to communicate and deliver a meaningful story at all levels of the organization and to our customers is essential. This job requires a high level of skill in driving and influencing business outcomes and consensus driven decisions.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the business stakeholders to develop Enterprise Architecture deliverables that articulate the business strategy, business outcomes, business capabilities and other elements needed to support business outcomes such as investment and cost analysis.
• Develop and implement the company's technology innovation agenda to ensure that the company is a leader in the application of technology to our various businesses. Interface with the businesses and executive management on strategies with alignment to technology and innovation.
• Develop and maintain Solutions enterprise-wide technology architecture strategy which catalogues the existing architectures, identifies areas for synergies and provides guidelines to maximize the return on investment across the enterprise.
• Provide leadership and direction to integrate architecture best practices into critical processes and disciplines such as acquisition/purchasing, vendor management, portfolio/program management and project management.
• Develop the solution architecture function to support the companies most important and complex initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 9 years of technical expertise in both mainframe and/or open systems environments (system software, application software, databases, etc.)
• 9 years' experience in the healthcare industry
• 9 years of experience in IT solution delivery
• Large enterprise experience with complex heterogenous IT environments
• Experience in leadership and management of IT environments of appropriate scale and complexity, ideally either leading an architecture organization or a group within an architecture function.
• Experience in all aspects of Senior Architecture roles, including leading the development and execution of comprehensive IT strategies and roadmaps and the development and execution of architectural requirements and technology standards.
• Broad and deep IT platform and application expertise.
• Strong understanding of modern infrastructure practices, including Infrastructure as Code, Containerization, and SD Data Center.
• Excellent ability to engage with senior business and IT leadership to understand the goals of the organization.
• Clearly communicate business strategies and articulate dependencies and requirements to business leaders.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to influence innovation to establish and execute planning processes.
• Excellent organizational skills, strong analytic and conceptual skills and solid financial analysis skills coupled with demonstrated problem-solving skills.
• Highly proficient at influencing the organization at a business, executive and technical level.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of the health care industry trends and directions.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• The Open Framework Group (TOGAF)

Education Minimum: Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field or 6 years of relevant, progressive experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.

Preferred: Master's Degree - Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field.