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Overview:

The Principal Enterprise Architect provides strategic and technical leadership in the development and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks that align information systems, infrastructure, and applications with business processes and data. This role enables improved efficiency, scalability, and productivity across the organization by ensuring technology investments support current and future business and clinical objectives.

The Principal Enterprise Architect leads the analysis of the current IT environment to identify gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities, and defines target-state architectures, reference models, standards, patterns, and roadmaps that guide enterprise transformation. This role evaluates system interactions, dependencies, total cost of ownership, and return on investment to inform architectural decisions and technology direction.

With a primary focus on Clinical Systems, and supporting other enterprise initiatives as capacity allows, the Principal Enterprise Architect collaborates across application, domain, solution, infrastructure, and security architecture teams to deliver balanced, enterprise-wide architectural outcomes. The role provides governance oversight, mentors architects and engineers, and serves as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural strategy, cloud adoption, and emerging technologies.

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred

8+ years of relevant experience with a degree

10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Preferred AWS/Azure/Google Professional Architect, Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA).

• Five or more years of experience in Enterprise Architecture.
• Five or more years of experience in Software development.
• Proven experience in designing and architecting solutions and processes, preferably in a large-scale healthcare organization (hospital).
• Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, security, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Deep knowledge of value stream maps, persona development, design thinking, customer journey, etc.
• Experience in technologies such as mobile, AI, data center, infrastructure, cloud (Azure, AWS), data streaming, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing and digital experiences technologies.
• Experience in Patient care, Clinical Support, Pharmacy and Revenue cycle management applications is required (e.g., Epic, PACS, Waystar etc.)
• Experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, draw.io, SharePoint, Mural etc.,
• Experience with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DODAF, Zachman, FEAF etc.
• Experience modeling architecture viewpoints in EA tools.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is:$106,080.00-$176,820.80. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

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Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

 Medical, Dental, Vision plans

 Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000

 Paid Time Off and Sick Leave

 Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave

 Emergency Backup Care

 Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans

 Life Insurance

 401k/403B with Employer Match

 Tuition Assistance 6 $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education

 Student Debt Pay Down 6 $10,000

Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Independence provides quality outpatient services to the surrounding community. The facility includes an ambulance-accessible emergency room that is supported by board-certified physicians. Sentara Independence houses state-of-the-art medical equipment and highly-skilled physicians and staff. Sentara Independence is now an extension of the quality services at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital including advanced imaging and physical therapy.