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Massachusetts General Hospital
Enterprise architect
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An Enterprise Architect is responsible for ensuring that the business mission, strategy, and processes of an organization are aligned with the organization's IT strategy, and documents this using multiple architectural models or views that show how best to meet the current and future needs of the organization.
$152,477 / year median in Massachusetts
+10% projected growth
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Mass General Brigham Incorporated Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham. Job Summary Mass General Brigham Digital is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect with a passion for healthcare, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to shape roadmaps and decisions for digital systems in an academic medical environment. This role is ideal for someone who learns quickly, adapts to changing technology demands, and enjoys collaborating across teams to support a complex healthcare system. Reporting to the Chief Enterprise Architect, the Enterprise Architect will be part of a cross-functional team responsible for stewarding Mass General Brigham Digital's capability model, reference architectures, and platform roadmaps. The ideal candidate will partner with Digital and business leaders, solution architects, and project teams to advance strategic objectives, strengthen architectural governance, and support platform rationalization across the technology lifecycle. Summary The Enterprise Architect provides technical leadership to professionals, is accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams, and develops plans that contribute to departmental strategy, priorities, and outcomes. This role proactively and holistically guides digital leaders, platform owners, product managers, product owners, and Digital experience leaders through new technology initiatives. The Enterprise Architect supports technology strategy development based on business strategies, outcomes, and capabilities, with decisions guided by resource availability and organizational objectives. The Enterprise Architect develops technology strategies and provides high-level architecture for the Digital department, including on-premises environments, cloud hosting, SaaS-hosted third-party applications, network connectivity, device strategy, integration platforms, databases, and DevOps capabilities. This role helps ensure strategies are implemented in accordance with industry-leading practices and established Mass General Brigham principles and governance. Essential Functions- Define and maintain multi-year roadmaps to operationalize infrastructure for new products, services, and platforms in the assigned area.
- Align technology strategy across business and technology leadership.
- Develop high- and mid-level designs that outline the structure and components of solutions.
- Ensure different components and systems work together seamlessly.
- Address security concerns and implement measures to protect solutions.
- Manage relationships with technology partners, including periodic business reviews, collaboration on platform enhancements, and shared roadmap development.
- Support the Chief Enterprise Architect and other enterprise groups to ensure infrastructure meets requirements, policies, and procedures.
- Ensure architecture blueprints are published and communicated across the organization.
- Communicate and educate the organization on enterprise architecture.
- Support innovation at scale by partnering Innovation teams with Infrastructure, Platforms, and Cloud teams.
- Lead the technology proof-of-concept portfolio and backlog to ensure critical innovation activities are coordinated, prioritized, scoped, and executed with clear recommendations.