Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Overview
BJC Health is a large integrated academic health care organization headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It operates in two regions as BJC HealthCare in the East and Saint Luke’s in the West. BJC is known for its commitment to economic growth, clinical excellence, and exceptional patient care.
Position Summary
The Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA) reports to the VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is responsible for defining and governing enterprise architecture principles and standards, ensuring coherent cross-domain decision-making, and facilitating execution while reducing enterprise risk and fragmentation.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with executive leadership and key stakeholders to translate business strategy into enterprise architecture direction, target states, and prioritized roadmaps.
Own the EA governance model and decision rights to promote speed, coherence, and value; ensure architectural decisions are made by the right role (enterprise, solution, domain) at the right time.
Define enterprise principles, standards, and reference architectures to enable consistent solution design and reduce fragmentation.
Facilitate cross-domain decision-making; arbitrate architectural conflicts and tradeoffs across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration.
Lead creation of enterprise modernization roadmaps and lifecycle strategies aligned to business capabilities and risk posture.
Ensure Solution Architects and Domain Architects have clear guardrails, patterns, and reusable assets so delivery teams can move quickly while remaining enterprise aligned.
Federated Team Structure and Collaboration
Lead the Core EA team to build, mentor, and manage a high-performing EA core that serves as the custodian of enterprise direction, governance, standards, and best practices.
Enable the federated architecture community by establishing operating rhythms, forums, and collaboration mechanisms that align Enterprise Architects positioned in other teams (e.g., Security, Data) and architects embedded in delivery.
Develop architecture talent and role clarity, maintaining clear role boundaries across Enterprise, Solution, and Domain Architects (and Domain SMEs), including expectations, artifacts, and engagement points.
Communicate architecture direction in business-relevant terms; build trust with leaders by balancing risk management with delivery pragmatism.
Domain-Specific Responsibilities and Engagement Model
Steward enterprise capabilities, ensuring enterprise-level ownership exists for critical cross-cutting capabilities and producing actionable standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
Oversight of integration and interoperability, promoting an “interoperability first” mindset and preventing point-to-point sprawl through enterprise integration principles, reference architectures, and governance aligned with data and security.
Align architecture guidance with regulatory and privacy requirements (e.g., HIPAA/PHI), cybersecurity posture, resilience, and operational supportability.
Collaborate with business stakeholders and Business Relationship Management (BRM) team to shape roadmaps and determine demand scope.
Guide application lifecycle and modernization roadmaps, ensuring solution designs align with business capabilities, enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and security standards.
Partner with other architects to ensure solution designs align with business capabilities, enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and security standards.
Govern architectural alignment at key solution lifecycle checkpoints.
Required Qualifications
10+ years in architecture roles with demonstrated enterprise-level impact (enterprise, solution, and/or domain architecture).
2-5 years proven leadership of an EA function, including governance, standards, and roadmap development in a complex organization.
Strong understanding across key enterprise domains: applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure (breadth with the ability to go deep when needed).
Experience designing and operating federated models that embed architecture into delivery without sacrificing enterprise coherence.
Executive-level communication and stakeholder management; ability to influence without direct control across federated teams.
Demonstrated ability to balance business value, speed-to-delivery, risk, security/privacy, and operational supportability in architectural decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
Healthcare industry experience and familiarity with clinical/non-clinical application ecosystems and interoperability needs.
Experience with enterprise integration (API-led, event-driven, messaging, managed file transfer).
Familiarity with EHR (Epic) integration leveraging tools like Cloverleaf/Rhapsody to manage HL7/FHIR interfaces.
Cloud platform strategy and modernization experience (including Azure), infrastructure lifecycle management, and resilience planning.
Background in data architecture, analytics/AI enablement, and data governance operating models.
Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent); security certification a plus.
Benefits and Legal Statement
BJC Total Rewards includes comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date. Disability insurance is also provided by BJC. Employees receive a 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution and a 401(k) plan with BJC match. Tuition Assistance is available on the first day. The BJC Institute for Learning and Development offers health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts. Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays, and personal time. Adoption assistance is also provided. For more information, please refer to our Benefits Summary. Not all benefits apply to all jobs. Equal Opportunity Employer.