Director, Architecture

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)The Stanford Medicine Technology and Digital Solutions team was formed to provide the Stanford Medicine community with the most innovative technology services as efficiently as possible. Led by Michael Pfeffer, CIO and Michael Halaas, Chief Operating Officer and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine, the unified organization brings together the best of the School of Medicine and Stanford Health Care IT to enable new opportunities for groundbreaking work and compassionate care. Together, the Technology and Digital Solutions team will work to break down historic organizational barriers to enable even greater collaboration across Stanford Medicine hospital and clinics, and the entire University.

A Brief Overview
Reporting to the Chief Enterprise Architect at Stanford Medicine, the Director of Architecture is responsible for two key functions – Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Solution Architecture (SA).

The Enterprise Architecture function will focus on managing architecture governance including Architecture Review Board (ARB), standards and policies management, managing exceptions and waivers. The EA function also includes managing the applications portfolio data including applications, owners, functions, capabilities – all managed in the EA tool.

The Solution Architecture function will manage a team of solution architects that create blueprints for project/technology solutions. This is a small, centralized team of architects proficient in the EA tool and ArchiMate notion to describe architectures.

In order to perform this function successfully the individual must:

• Engage business and IT stakeholders, creating and building relationships
• Communicate the value of architecture, and its portfolio of services
• Design and build team oriented around internal management consulting
• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
• Coach and mentor practitioners

The role responds to disruptive forces by helping business and IT leaders facilitate the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives and policies to help the organization drive targeted business outcomes. They help business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted business outcomes through the choice of initiatives in which the organization chooses to invest.

The role also helps business leaders achieve business outcomes and understand, monetize and operationalize existing, new and emerging technologies. They build and motivate the architecture team — empowering solution architects — with coaching and mentoring to build a creative and safe learning environment.

The Director of Architecture leads, prioritizes, and develops the overall architecture approach for the organization, and communicates architectural direction. They have purview into (and may directly manage) other architecture-related activities and the respective roles (such as business, information, solution and technical).

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

Evolve the EA Practice

• Leads the development of a value proposition and execution of a communication and education plan for the enterprise architecture practice. Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation.
• Leads the creation and maturing of the enterprise architecture practice into an internal management consultancy.
• Leads the development of the EA service portfolio, ensuring they are aligned to the needs of the organization and EA's key stakeholders.
• Design the EA Operating Mode
• Determines the extent to which the EA program has decision-making (governance) and compliance (assurance) rights. Ensures the role of EA in the project and product governance setting is one of guidance, advice and oversight.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support agility and adaptability.
• Helps the enterprise find the right balance between enterprise risk and agility. Communicates key EA positions to business and IT leaders to get buy-in and mandate.

Evolve the SA Team

• Introduce, coach solution architects to follow a standard architecture methodology
• Get alignment with Applications, Infrastructure and PMO leasers on the role of architecture in the project
• Coach and mentor members of the SA team.
• Hire additional team members, continue to monitor demand/capacity, and make business case for additional roles or headcount

General Architecture Functions

• Connect Strategy to Execution
• Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translates and executes business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues..
• Build the EA Value Proposition and Structure Business Engagement
• Builds the EA practice to become an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
• Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
• Enable Value-Based Messaging and Manage Cross-Functional Relationships
• Provides consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
• Leads a collaborative "guild" of architects and works with a strategic committee/board to resolve conflicts between product lines and enterprise business outcomes.
• Support Solutions Delivery
• Develops and applies standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.
• Facilitates a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams.
• Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Support Portfolio Modernization and Develop Roadmaps
• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture, based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Required.
• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Preferred.

Experience Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Must have created architecture blueprints in an enterprise environment in a hybrid/cloud environment.
• Healthcare (hospital) experience is essential. Academic medical center experience is a plus.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Skills
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Experience with EA Tools
• Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Strong leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.
• Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture, business and IT principles and processes.
• Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Competencies
• Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Balances the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
• Estimates the financial impact of architecture alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization's digital business strategies.
• Understands and speaks the language of the business.

Physical Demands and Work Conditions
Blood Borne Pathogens

• Category II - Tasks that involve NO exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

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Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $ $128.53 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

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