Principal Architect

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, promote, and evangelize the enterprise business capabilities model and the mappings that connect capabilities to processes, applications, data, and strategic outcomes for the organization.
• Own the alignment between business needs and technology, ensuring IT strategy and solutions advance the Company’s business objectives.
• Provide strategic consultation to assigned business customers in designing capability-based solutions, functions, and organizational structures, as well as in identifying enabling capabilities based on business requirements.
• Guide IT in transitioning from an operations-focused team to a business value-driven team, helping teams frame their work in terms of capability uplift and measurable business outcomes.
• Work closely with PMO, business users, and stakeholders across various initiatives to understand functional and business aspects of projects, ensuring adherence to Enterprise Architecture principles.
• Analyze the business and operating environment to detect critical capability gaps, redundancies, and deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Support development of business cases and cost-benefit analysis, while reducing initiative risk through capability-driven prioritization.
• Orchestrate, design, and architect business solutions that leverage the existing investment made in current business and IT capabilities.
• Provide portfolio governance and oversight to drive lifecycle optimization and alignment of initiatives to defined business capabilities.
• Present ideas with qualitative and quantitative findings.
• Articulate business architecture concepts and analytical findings to Executive Management, Business leadership, software developers, and end users.
• Establish standards and processes for capability modeling and business architecture to achieve quality and consistency.
• Build relationships with business units and IT teams to gain an understanding of business processes, capabilities, and required outcomes.
• Influence and guide best practices at the individual performer level, work through business and process challenges faced by the team, and provide solutions.
• Contribute to the growth and maturity of the IT department by providing mentorship, fostering development and knowledge transfer, and thought-leading by example.
• Develop, manage, and publish business capability models, value streams, and business reference architectures.
• Identify and help prioritize business-driven remediation of capability gaps and process debt within the environment.
• Share best practices, lessons learned, and constantly update the business architecture based on changing strategy, market conditions, and organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 8-10+ years of experience in business architecture, business analysis, strategy, or business/IT consulting.
• 2-5+ years of experience working in an architect or business/technical leadership capacity, most recent role included.
• Solid understanding of healthcare provider (ASC) business models, operations, and the strengths and weaknesses of healthcare delivery organizations, with the ability to provide a trusted voice at the decision-making table.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining business capability models and mapping capabilities to processes, applications, and data.
• Familiarity with industry standards and frameworks for business architecture (e.g., BIZBOK) in the healthcare provider sector.
• Strong understanding of value stream mapping, business process modeling, and operating model design.
• Strong background in linking business strategy to technology investment and portfolio prioritization.
• Strong knowledge of business case development, cost-benefit analysis, and value realization methodologies.
• Knowledge of TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITSM, and ITIL required; certification preferred.
• Excellent conceptual modeling skills irrespective of technology, and willingness to assume total ownership of business architecture from inception to delivery.
• Fluency in modern-day IT management concepts, including strategic planning, enterprise architecture, capital planning, business intelligence, and IT portfolio management.
• Experience in creating an effective framework and process model for establishing enterprise-wide business architecture.
• Experience creating a common architecture vision across Facilities and Support Services.
• Demonstrated competency in communicating the value of enterprise and business architecture to stakeholders and senior management.
• Understanding of how business architecture informs SDLC processes, solution patterns, and delivery frameworks.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to develop and conduct executive-level presentations.
• Ability and willingness to document business capabilities, processes, and dependencies for existing operations currently in use at SCA.
• Experience with vendor management and building vendor relationships.
• Self-directed with the ability to work effectively under tight deadlines.
• Experience with Mergers & Acquisitions, in areas of Diligence & Integration, is desirable.

Pay

USD $145,000.00/Yr. USD $175,000.00/Yr.