We are seeking a Vice President, Enterprise Architecture to design, implement, and lead our Enterprise Architecture Program, ensuring our SaaS platforms are secure, reliable, and cost-effective at scale. This role will play a strategic leadership role in guiding architectural decisions, standardizing engineering practices, and integrating AI into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to drive measurable improvements across the organization.
Key Responsibilities- Build and Operate the Enterprise Architecture Program
• Establish and lead enterprise architecture strategy to ensure long-term alignment between technology and business goals.
• Define and enforce architectural principles focused on Security, Reliability, and Cost Effectiveness.
• Continuously assess and evolve systems architecture for scale, compliance (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST), and cloud efficiency.
- Act as a strategic advisor to business and technology leaders by guiding technology investments and architecture decisions.
- Defines world-class guiding principles, standards, and patterns to create a multi-tiered architecture that is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
- Define and roll out architectural standards, documentation frameworks, and decision-making processes across all engineering teams.
- Drive cross-functional alignment and visibility on technical initiatives by working with product, security, operations, and compliance.
- Drives high adoption of standards and tools among architects and stakeholders.
- Act as a technology ambassador with leadership, customers, and the board-clearly articulating architectural decisions, risks, and trade-offs
- Leverage AI to Optimize the Software Development Lifecycle
• Envision and communicate future-state architecture aligned with business goals, including a vision document and a strategic technology roadmap.
• Identify and implement AI/ML tools and practices to improve code quality, automate testing, enhance observability, and reduce technical debt.
• Drive adoption of AI across the SDLC to accelerate delivery while improving system resilience and reducing long-term operational costs.
• Lead internal education and governance around AI tooling, model use, and risks in production environments.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate on cloud infrastructure optimization, including cost modeling, observability, and infrastructure-as-code standards.
- M&A platform integration architecture and design.
- Act as a mentor, conflict mediator, and facilitator of design sessions to capture and resolve all relevant architecture issues.
- Guide the design and implementation of platform architecture, including microservices, event-driven patterns, and data flows.
Required Qualifications- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in senior architectural or platform leadership roles.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining enterprise-grade SaaS platforms in regulated industries (preferably healthcare).
- Strong grasp of cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure), modern SDLC practices, DevOps, and security architecture.
- Demonstrated success in building and managing architectural frameworks and governance in large, distributed environments.
- Effective communicator capable of influencing C-level leaders, technical teams, and external stakeholders.
- Experience integrating or building AI/ML solutions to enhance software engineering outcomes or platform capabilities.
- Demonstrated high trust and credibility with business and technology leadership.
- Ability to effectively facilitate high-level discussions, resolve conflicts, and guide creative sessions.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in healthcare, supply chain, or both.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, CodeWhisperer, AI test generation.
- Understanding of regulatory and data exchange standards like HL7, FHIR, EDI
Expected Salary Range: $161,000 - $230,000 plus Bonus
