What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect position at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center?
The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners, and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The enterprise architect helps the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability. The enterprise architect will have significant business knowledge of multiple industries, such as healthcare, financial services, the management consulting environment, and how technology can be introduced to enable workflows and functionality.
Key focus areas include data and analytics, the Internet of Everything (IoE), artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent hospital architecture, security, cloud technologies, applications, frameworks, and governance. Collaborates with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions and blueprints align with the overall Enterprise strategic plan within IT. Partner with business architecture, enterprise architecture, product capabilities, and other senior IT leaders to plan the overall innovation pipeline, including capital investment and the associated business case.
The enterprise architect must have the following:
- Facilitate alignment between business and IT across the democratized IT landscape.
- Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships.
- Adapt to changing business and operating models.
- Analyze trends and disruptions and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
- Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
- Support various operating models, such as project-centric and product-centric.
- Communicate the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services.
- Drive the evolution of the EA team services and operating model.
- Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers, and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.
- Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
- Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, able to respond professionally and diplomatically.
- Highly collaborative and supportive of business and its ideals and strategies.
- Highly innovative with an aptitude for foresight, systems thinking, and design thinking.
- Vendor- and technology-neutral; more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences or vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Masters preferred. Advanced degree in relevant field may be required. 12 years of relevant experience required. 15 or more years of relevant experience preferred.
- A minimum of 12 years collaborating with the business leaders in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant
- A minimum of 12 years of experience in at least 5 disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, data & analytics, applications, cloud, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment.
- Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
- Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organizational goals.
- Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
- Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Ready to think, behave, and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.
- Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Hiring for two positions.
