Executive Job Description | Key Responsibilities ? Through independent R&D, define strategic business direction tied to technology. Work in collaboration with executive and business management as well as with development teams tied to projects, identify new products and techniques that will improve our quality and timeliness. Own R&D related to products, tools, methodologies, Best Practices for EA and techniques. ? Define, set, own and enforce standards for tools, techniques and methodology for our strategic technologies; maintain up-to-date standards repository; provide some oversight in standards adherence through reviews of project work. ? Maintain close working relationships with executives and business management to understand corporate and architecture goals and requirements. Convey common technology vision between IT and Business units identify areas to increase operational efficiencies through reuse realize the benefits of integrated enterprise knowledge and evangelize the portfolio of technologies, focus on flexibility to increase business solution capabilities and time to market. ? Function as steward of our migration toward approved architectural directions, ensuring that project teams understand and utilize concepts of reuse and services. ? Support and maintain our repository of reusable components, providing consulting to project teams on the availability and use of these components. ? Publish and maintain documentation to be used by application development teams, lead in the development and on-going maintenance of the EA Framework including technical, and application, information, security and infrastructure strategies. Experience and Education:? Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 10 plus years of experience as an IT Architect. ? Proficient in architecture modeling, integration, practices, governance and reference patterns. ? Knowledge and understanding of the health care business as a whole, product knowledge is a plus. HIPPA highly desired ? Knowledge and understanding of conceptual architectures. (Web,Client-server,Real-time Integration, and SOA). ? Certification or experience with TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, COBIT, ITIL or Gartner Framework a plus. |