Senior Clinical Enterprise Architect - Healthcare

Position Overview:The Senior Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic architecture leader and deputy-level partner to executive technology leadership. This role represents and applies enterprise architecture strategy across the organization, ensuring business and clinical initiatives align with enterprise direction, principles, and long-term target state intent.The Senior Enterprise Architect provides architectural leadership for large-scale enterprise and clinical transformations, including electronic health record platform transitions, application portfolio modernization, and capability-driven roadmaps. The role leads multiple architecture teams, including clinical solution architects, and operates with enterprise-wide influence comparable to a Chief Enterprise Architect in environments where the formal EA practice is still maturing.Responsibilities:Represent and apply enterprise architecture strategy across assigned business and clinical domains, ensuring initiatives align with enterprise direction, principles, and long-term target state intent.Serve as the architectural leader for major electronic health record transformations, including Cerner to Epic transitions, ensuring clinical, operational, regulatory, and technical alignment.Act as a senior deputy to executive technology leadership, providing architecture guidance, challenge, and decision support comparable to a Chief Enterprise Architect role.Partner directly with executive, business, and clinical leaders to understand objectives, constraints, and priorities, translating strategy into enterprise capabilities, roadmaps, and architectural implications.Identify, assess, and shape enterprise initiatives to ensure architectural coherence, appropriate sequencing, and measurable value realization.Lead and mentor multiple architecture teams, including clinical solution architects and domain architects, ensuring consistent application of enterprise standards and architectural practices.Ensure enterprise capabilities and roadmaps are synchronized across clinical, infrastructure, data, security, and business domains, proactively surfacing conflicts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.Collaborate with domain, solution, and clinical architects to guide architectural decisions, ensuring solutions remain fit for purpose while conforming to enterprise standards.Provide architectural insight and executive-level decision support to enable informed trade-offs related to investment, risk, and execution.Contribute to enterprise-level learning and continuous improvement by sharing patterns, outcomes, and lessons learned to inform the evolution of the enterprise architecture practice.Qualifications:Ten or more years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technical leadership roles within complex, multi-domain environments.Demonstrated experience operating at a senior or deputy enterprise architecture leadership level, with accountability similar to a Chief Enterprise Architect in practice.Proven experience leading large-scale healthcare transformations, including enterprise electronic health record transitions such as Cerner to Epic.Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring multiple architecture teams, including clinical solution architects, within federated or matrixed organizations.Strong experience aligning enterprise, business, and clinical strategy to technology execution, including translating objectives into capabilities, roadmaps, and architectural direction.Proven ability to partner with executive, business, and clinical leaders and influence decision making across organizational boundaries without direct authority.Experience operating within a federated or matrixed architecture model, balancing enterprise standards with business and clinical autonomy.Strong architectural judgment across application, infrastructure, integration, data, security, and cloud platforms.Experience supporting large-scale initiatives involving multiple teams, vendors, and technologies with accountability for enterprise coherence and outcomes rather than delivery ownership.Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical, business, and clinical audiences.Tools and Technologies:Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ISO/IEC 42010Epic electronic health record platforms and surrounding clinical ecosystemsCerner electronic health record platforms and enterprise transition experienceFHIR-based integration architectures and clinical data platformsApplication portfolio management and rationalization practicesCapability-based planning and multi-year enterprise roadmap development