Senior Enterprise Architect

About You

You are a person who loves to drive enterprise-wide architecture initiatives that align business goals with secure, scalable, and compliant technology solutions. We need someone who can work as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and partner with stakeholders to establish architecture standards, governance processes, and technology roadmaps that support healthcare operations, government requirements, cloud modernization, and innovation. In the role of Senior Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for defining and executing enterprise technology strategy across healthcare and regulated cloud environments, with a strong focus on FedRAMP, HIPAA, healthcare interoperability, security, compliance, and digital transformation

• Tell us about your experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Strategy.
• Are you a team player and a self-motivator?
• What is your experience with conducting business in a way that is credit to a company?
• We are counting on you to manage multiple projects using your problem-solving skills.
• We are looking for someone UNCOMMON. What is uncommon about you?

Are you highly committed? Are you team-oriented? Do you value professionalism, trust, honesty, and integrity? If so, we cannot wait to meet you.

About The Position

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and target-state architecture.
• Develop multi-year technology roadmaps supporting healthcare and government-regulated business objectives.
• Align technology investments with organizational goals, compliance requirements, and operational priorities.
• Lead enterprise modernization initiatives, including cloud transformation and platform consolidation.

FedRAMP & Regulatory Compliance Leadership

• Architect systems and processes compliant with FedRAMP Moderate and High baselines.
• Ensure alignment with NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FISMA, and federal cloud security requirements.
• Collaborate with compliance, security, legal, and audit teams to maintain regulatory adherence.
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) initiatives and security assessment activities.
• Guide implementation of continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation strategies.

Healthcare Architecture & Interoperability

• Design enterprise solutions supporting HIPAA, HITECH, CMS, and state healthcare regulations.

• Lead architecture strategies for healthcare platforms, payer systems, provider systems, population health, and member engagement capabilities.

• Drive interoperability initiatives utilizing:

• HL7

• FHIR

• X12 EDI

• API-based healthcare integrations

• Develop enterprise data architecture supporting clinical, claims, eligibility, enrollment, and member data domains.

• Support data governance, privacy, and healthcare information security initiatives.

Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture

• Develop cloud adoption and migration strategies using:

• Microsoft Azure Government

• Azure Commercial

• AWS GovCloud

• AWS Commercial

• Establish cloud governance, security, networking, and operational frameworks.

• Lead hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architecture initiatives.

• Drive infrastructure modernization and platform standardization efforts.

Security Architecture

• Partner with Security and Risk teams to establish Zero Trust architecture strategies.

• Ensure solutions incorporate:

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Privileged Access Management (PAM)

• Data encryption

• Endpoint security

• Security monitoring and incident response

• Evaluate security architecture designs and ensure compliance with organizational security policies.

Data & Integration Architecture

• Define enterprise data management and integration strategies.

• Develop API-first architecture standards and integration patterns.

• Establish standards for:

• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

• Event-driven architecture

• API Management

• Healthcare data exchange

• Support advanced analytics, AI, machine learning, and reporting initiatives.

Architecture Governance

• Chair or participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB).
• Establish architecture decision records (ADRs), standards, and reference architectures.
• Review solution architectures for alignment with enterprise standards.
• Monitor technology portfolio health and technical debt reduction initiatives.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide leadership and mentoring to Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, and Engineering teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders and executive leadership on strategic technology decisions.
• Collaborate with business and technology leaders to prioritize enterprise initiatives.
• Build strong partnerships with cloud providers, healthcare partners, and government agencies.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or related discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive IT experience.
• 7+ years in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Strategy leadership roles.
• Experience supporting healthcare payer, provider, or healthcare technology organizations.
• Proven experience designing and implementing FedRAMP-compliant cloud solutions.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale cloud transformation and modernization programs.
• Experience working directly with executive leadership and regulatory stakeholders.

Enterprise Architecture

• TOGAF or equivalent architecture framework expertise.
• Business capability modeling and technology road mapping.
• Application portfolio management and rationalization.

Cloud Platforms

• Microsoft Azure Government
• Azure Landing Zones
• AWS GovCloud
• Kubernetes and container platforms
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation)

Security & Compliance

• FedRAMP Moderate/High
• NIST SP 800-53
• NIST CSF
• HIPAA/HITECH
• HITRUST
• FISMA
• Zero Trust Architecture
• SOC 2

Healthcare Technologies

• Facets (preferred)
• Epic, Cerner, or other EHR platforms
• HL7
• FHIR
• X12 Transactions
• Healthcare Data Warehousing
• Population Health Platforms

Modern Technology Practices

• DevSecOps
• CI/CD
• API Management
• Microservices
• Event-Driven Architecture
• AI and Advanced Analytics

Key Competencies

• Executive presence and communication
• Strategic technology planning
• Regulatory and compliance expertise
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Cloud architecture leadership
• Security-first mindset
• Business and financial acumen
• Stakeholder management
• Organizational influence
• Risk assessment and governance
• Innovation and digital transformation leadership

Preferred Requirements:

• Master's Degree preferred.
• TOGAF Certified
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect -- Professional
• AWS Security Specialty
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
• HITRUST CCSFP
• Project Management Professional (PMP)

About Us

You are uncommon. We are, too. We are looking for people to help us in our mission of working hard at lowering healthcare administrative costs for federal government agencies, payers, and providers. At Signature, our mission is to improve the health of our clients' business and make the lives of the people we work with better. As we continue to experience exponential growth, we are looking for uncommon individuals to enhance our vision. We will continue to accomplish our mission by leading with our values of Passion, Courage, Integrity, and Respect in all interactions, making us a consistent annual Best Places to Work organization. We need uncommon leaders with uncommon qualities to shape our uncommon culture and achieve our uncommon mission.

About the Benefits

When you are a member of Signature Performance, you are a part of a solutions-based organization where the values of passion, integrity, courage, and respect are the driving forces behind all our decision-making. We trust you to do important work and bring the best version of yourself to work every day, so we want to help you achieve a work-life balance while consistently challenging yourself. Signature believes in fully developing each one of our Associates. Our performance-driven philosophy boasts competitive pay and additional position specific incentives, where world-class training and development, resources, and events drive our award-winning culture where everyone thrives.

• Health Insurance
• Fully Paid Life Insurance
• Fully Paid Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Professional Development and Tuition Assistance Program
• 401(k) Program with Employer Match