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Details

• Department: Applications and Platforms

• Schedule: Full-time, 8 hour day shift, Monday - Friday

• Location: Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Role Purpose

The Sr. Solution Architect strategically designs and implements medium, complex, and highly

complex technology solutions that meet business requirements that are fully aligned with

enterprise and domain architecture guidelines.

Functional Responsibilities

● Proficient in producing architectures and designs that involve the creation of new design

patterns for moderate to high technological and business function complexity.

● Provides end to end architecture for a project to ensure the detailed design and

development remains consistent with the overall enterprise architecture.

● Leads and advises on architect-initiated quality projects (e.g., scalability, maintainability;

security; extensibility) to bring successful conclusion and implementation.

● Identifies issues between the architecture and vendor solution implementation. Identifies

solutions and formulate implementation and migration strategies.

● Provides expertise in technical knowledge, methodology and framework, data integration

and data flows, Enterprise Architecture, and software development and coding.

● Communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small

technical audiences.

● Defines strategies for networking, server platform, desktop services, and security

required to support relevant technical environments.

● Leads orientation and planning review sessions with the local Information Technology

project managers.

Technical Proficiencies

● Information Systems knowledge

○ Maintains and applies up to date knowledge of discreet and integration

information systems elements.

○ Resolves escalated problems; Identifies root causes; identifies customer needs

and determines the appropriate approach to ensure resolution.

○ Solicits the input of appropriate technical experts.

○ Sets up and integrates new and enhanced information systems

○ Identifies means of integrating technical support requirements with enterprise

processes and strategies.

○ Identifies technological opportunities to meet client needs.

○ Creates information systems solutions to meet the needs of business partners;

Partners with appropriate technical consultants, experts and leaders.

● Foundational Architecture Knowledge

○ Knowledge of the systems architecture used consistently within or across the

organization or enterprise.

○ The architecture is defined and adopted as the standard against which decisions

are made regarding design and development of all IT resources and assists

across the enterprise.

○ Shows understanding of the concept and usefulness of foundation architecture in

the development and deployment of software and hardware; integrates tasks with

foundational architecture.

○ Understanding and adoption of the TOGAF Framework. Applies architecture

principles.

○ Uses relevant tools and techniques in their own work area.

○ Provides guidance on the standards and guidelines to members of the

development community.

○ Consults with development project teams in the design of the fundamental

hardware and software that provides the infrastructure on which applications are

developed and run.

○ Applies the evaluation criteria used for the selection of hardware, software and

tools.

○ Ensures the completeness (Fit for purpose) of the architecture in ensuring

pertinent requirements of stakeholders is inclusive.

○ Research the design of new architectural components. Assesses benefits and

drawbacks of proposed changes.

○ Monitors emerging trends and assesses impact for the company.

○ Consults to multiple project teams in diverse environments.

○ Determines and explains the interrelationships of the various technologies and

their respective roles with the architecture.

● System Development Life Cycle Knowledge

○ Applies knowledge of how technology solutions process through life cycle phases

of requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment and

decommission.

○ Performs required tasks for one or more phases of the SDLC. Prepares status

updates on how work is progressing through a phase.

○ Provides complete and accurate handoffs to others who are responsible for

subsequent phases of work.

○ Meets project plan expectations and participates in resolving handoff issues.

Coordinates required tasks for one or more phases of the SDLC. Consolidates

status updates and resolves handoff issues or other problems.

○ Makes suggestions for shared tools, documentation standards and methodology.

○ Manages the SDLC for existing projects. Tracks and monitors performance

across multiple SDLC phases.

○ Develops shared tools and documentation standards.

○ Participates in creating recommendations for design and implementation of

Methodology.

○ Mentors others.

● Systems Thinking

○ Ability to plan and account for impacts of system development efforts across

architecture system components, critical business processes, data and

Applications.

○ Conceptualizes the impact of changes to system platforms, as a result of system

acquisition, system merger, or implementation of enterprise wide solutions.

○ Investigates the critical relationships between primary business, technology, and

system platforms. Devises approaches that recognize the interdependencies of

the key system components.

○ Researches the critical and underlying relationships between primary business,

technology, and systems platforms. Devises approaches that integrate system

components.

○ Plans improvements that take into account the critical, underlying and less

apparent relationships between business, technology and systems platforms.

○ Devises approaches that integrate system components for assigned clients.

○ Conducts risk evaluations and resolves issues regarding significant changes

and/or upgrades.

● Innovation

○ Improves the organizational performance through the application of original

thinking to existing and emerging methods, processes, products and services.

○ Employs sound judgment in determining how innovation will be deployed to

produce return on investment.

○ Reacts open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Consider different or

unusual solutions when appropriate.

○ Identifies opportunities for innovation and offers new ideas; Takes the initiative to

experiment.

○ Shares new ideas and consistently demonstrates openness to the opinions and

views of others.

○ Identifies new and different patterns, trends and opportunities. Generates

solutions that build upon, adapt, and go beyond transition and status quo.

○ Seeks to involve other stakeholders in developing solutions to problems.

Complexity of Work

● Within the scope of the job, it requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the

ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment.

● 10 years of experience strongly preferred.

● 2 years of leadership or management experience required.

● 5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

● Healthcare provider industry experience is preferred

● 3 or more years of Epic Clinical architect experience preferred

● Epic certification and/or Build experience in three or more clinical modules preferred

Requirements

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management.

Additional Preferences

No additional preferences.

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