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City/State: Saint Louis, Missouri

Categories: Leadership

Job Status: Full-Time

Req ID : 107205

Pay Range: - / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

Title: Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Direct reports: Core EA team (Enterprise Architects) and a federated EA operating model (as established) - provides dotted-line leadership to Federated Enterprise Architects in Security, Data and other business domains in the future.

Team size / scope: Leads a small Core EA team (typically 3-6) and drives alignment across a broader federated architecture community (Solution Architects and Domain Architects embedded in delivery and domain teams).

Overview

BJC Health

BJC Health is one of the largest integrated academic health care organizations in the United States and the largest private employer in the state of Missouri. It serves as a driving force for economic growth, clinical excellence and exceptional patient care throughout the Midwest and beyond. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, BJC and its 47,000 employees operate in two regions as BJC HealthCare in the East and Saint Luke's in the West. Its dedication to improving urban, suburban, and rural communities across Missouri, southern Illinois, and eastern Kansas is supported by more than $1.2 billion in annual community investment. BJC's long-standing affiliation with the nationally renowned Washington University in St. Louis and its School of Medicine powers its academic mission in the East, most notably at U.S. News & World Report ranked Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital; as well as at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the state of Missouri. In the West region, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City serves as a primary training site for UMKC School of Medicine. BJC is consistently recognized as a great place to work, from Newsweek's 'America's Greatest Workplaces' to Forbes' list of 'Best Large Employers.'

Department maintains the network and is responsible for network connectivity.

Preferred Qualifications

Position Summary

The Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA), is a senior technology leader who leads BJC's enterprise architecture function and serves as a trusted technical thought partner to the Senior Leadership Team. The role is accountable for enterprise-wide architectural direction, including principles, governance, strategy, reference architectures, lifecycle management, and cross-domain coherence. The successful candidate will bring broad technology leadership beyond the traditional boundaries of enterprise architecture and engage in significant forward-looking technology discussions to understand the issue, challenge assumptions, develop a credible point of view, and influence direction.

This leader combines breadth across applications, integration, data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, platforms, and engineering with the ability to go deep when the situation requires. The Director leads the Core EA team in a federated operating model and ensures architecture accelerates execution rather than becoming a centralized bottleneck. EA is what this person leads, not the boundary of what this person is capable of doing.

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Core Accountabilities

+ Lead Enterprise Architecture: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing Core EA team. Establish clearaccountabilities, decision rights, operating rhythms, and role clarity across Enterprise, Domain, Solution, Platform, Data, Security, and Infrastructure Architecture.

+ Serve as a Senior Technical Thought Partner: Engage across major technology decisions, rapidly frame unfamiliar or complex issues, test assumptions, surfacechoicesand tradeoffs, and help shape anenterprisepoint of view.

+ Shape Enterprise Technology Strategy: Assess where technology is going,determinewhat matters to BJC and what does not, recommend where BJC should invest, and define how the technology landscape should evolve. Translate that strategy into target states, roadmaps, standards, and investment priorities.

+ Bring Broad and Deep Technical Leadership: Provide credible leadership across applications, integration, data, AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, platforms, resilience, observability, and modern engineering practices. Go sufficiently deep to evaluate architecture, operational implications, dependencies, controls, and tradeoffs.

+ Own EA Governance and Decision Rights: Define andoperatepragmatic governance that promotes speed, coherence, reuse, and value. Ensure decisions are made by the right roles at the right time, with clear escalation and exception paths.

+ Define Principles, Standards, and Reference Architectures: Establishand maintain actionable enterprise principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures that reduce fragmentation and guide consistent solution design.

+ Drive Cross-Domain Alignment: Facilitatedecisions and arbitrate tradeoffs across applications, integration, data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and platforms. Create coherence without undermining domain accountability or delivery speed.

+ Lead Modernization and Lifecycle Strategy: Develop enterprise modernization and lifecycle roadmaps aligned to business capabilities, risk, resilience, financial stewardship, and operational supportability.

+ Enable Delivery: Equip domain, solution, and platform teams with reusable guardrails, patterns, reference designs, and decision support so teams can move quickly while remainingenterprise-aligned.

+ Communicate with Executives and the Board: Translate complicated technical issues for CEO, CFO, clinical executive, and Board-level audiences in terms of business implications, choices, risks, opportunities, investment requirements, and recommended action.

adership mandate: Hire a great technology leader who can lead architecture, not only a great architect who can lead architecture.

Leadership Profile

+ Enterprise technology leader with a demonstrated ability to lead architecture while contributing credibly across a broad technology agenda.

+ Intellectually curious and technically agile, with the aptitude to learn unfamiliar areas quickly, engage deeply with subject-matter experts, synthesize evidence, and form a credible point of view.

+ Balances strategic perspective with current technical depth and can distinguish meaningful technology shifts from hype.

+ Challenges assumptions constructively andinfluencesdirection through judgment, evidence, relationships, and executive p...

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