Enterprise Architect
Denver, CO

Job Description

Job Summary

A leading provider of healthcare and social services for seniors is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect (EA) to support the growth, and transformation of technology to meet the needs of our business. The EA will be responsible for leading the effort to develop, maintain, and evolve the EA program across the enterprise, as well as defining the approach for leading the effective integration of enterprise architecture blueprints with other related business and IT processes.

This role will combine many different skills and experiences to provide the "glue" that connects project and program strategies with business strategies, drivers and management priorities. This "glue" should result in a series of models or blueprints and roadmaps that, at a minimum, define and describe the architecture goals the organization is trying to achieve and the steps needed to fill identified gaps.

Essential Functions and Work Responsibilities

The following represent the key job responsibilities of this role.

Functional Category: Strategize

Estimated Percent of time Spent - 10%

EA should ensure the enterprise strategy is understood and contributes to the creation of the strategy

Identify existing enterprise architecture artifacts across organization by working with IT leads and stakeholders

Review the existing enterprise and solution architecture and perform enterprise architecture gap analysis

Analyze the current business and IT environment to identify critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement

Support the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements

Analyze industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential impacts on the enterprise's strategy and architecture requirements

Understand, advocate, and support the enterprise's business and IT strategies -participating in the strategy creation

Functional Category: Architect

Estimated Percent of time Spent - 25%

This process involves architecting the future state, understanding the current state, and then developing approaches to address the gaps between them.

Coordinate an balanced pursuit of enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture viewpoints

Select/define a framework for enterprise architecture

Develop enterprise architecture models, documentation and best practices

Defines and maintains standard templates that are used to describe the overall enterprise architecture including diagrams (process, data, logical, etc.), standard strategy and roadmap templates.

Works with technical teams to document the architectural requirements in EA blueprints with detailed technical architectural requirements that can be referenced when designing and implementing new technology solutions

Organize the enterprise architecture blueprints and documentation based on the chosen framework

Functional Category: Lead

Estimated Percent of time Spent - 25%

EA must lead the effort to positively influence change by championing support, evolving the enterprise architecture processes to deliver value and strengthening enterprise architecture capabilities within the enterprise.

Conduct enterprise architecture discovery sessions, workshops and white boarding sessions with key stakeholders to present architecture deliverables and obtain feedback

Serve as the point of contact for all things relating to EA

Lead the development of an roadmap for the enterprise architecture, based on business requirements and IT strategies

Oversee enterprise architecture implementation and ongoing refinement activities

Provides ongoing advisement to the Project Management Office to ensure projects are leveraging EA requirements

Functional Category: Govern

Estimated Percent of time Spent - 15%

The EA should ensure the right structures are in place and engaged to support enterprise architecture decisions.

Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture

Collaborate with program/project teams to adhere to, and reconcile solutions to the enterprise architecture

Organize and upload documents to a common repository

Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision making for the enterprise

Align the InnovAge architectural roadmap with key vendor roadmaps (such as Microsoft and critical business application vendors)

Functional Category: Communicate

Estimated Percent of time Spent - 25%

EAs are responsible for ensuring all aspects of the enterprise architecture are communicated effectively.

Inform stakeholders on enterprise architecture practices, frameworks and/or tools

Communicate the successes and business value of enterprise architecture to key stakeholders

Oversee the effective communication of all enterprise architecture artifacts

Participates in Change Management to ensure changes and new IT Services are in alignment with Enterprise Architecture requirements

Travel Requirements

Travel may be required to local PACE sites located in CA, NM, CO, VA and PA to meet with stakeholders and/or conduct workshops.

Estimated Percent of time Spent - estimated < 5%

Travel between local InnovAge work sites

Overnight travel out of state

Relocation

Job location is Denver, CO.

Must be open to relocation if not currently within driving distance to the Denver Metro area

Job Qualifications

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

REQUIRED

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or a related field

Work Experience and Qualifications

Ten (10) years' IT systems design experience

Seven (7) to ten (10) years of experience in multiple IT disciplines

Five (5) years of previous experience in enterprise architecture role

Experience deploying production IT services

Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation

Strong experience working across organizational units and senior leadership to develop Enterprise Architecture diagrams

Ability to envision and run workshops, white boarding sessions and architecture reviews to align key stakeholders on architecture recommendations

Strong leadership skills

Excellent analytical and contextualization skills (e.g., ability to "connect the dots")

Experience assessing existing architectures and recommending "future state architecture" leveraging business and technical vision and goals and leading practices

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent planning and organizational skills

Excellent understanding of enterprise level systems, infrastructure, security and data architectures

Knowledge of all components of a holistic EA

Knowledge of process improvement

Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches and tools

The ability to balance the long-term (or "big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions

The ability to translate business needs into EA requirements

The ability to estimate and articulate the impact of EA alternatives - both financial and nonfinancial

The ability to identify potentially relevant trends and emerging technologies, forecast their impact and utility, and act accordingly

Proven track record of creating clear, concise deliverables that reflect a deep understanding of business and technical architecture

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

Computer Skills

Experience using standard project and business tools including- Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio etc.

Good experience with MS SharePoint

Must be able to quickly learn specific software and new applications.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze and interpret regulations and other documents.

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively and tactfully present information to, and communicate with, co-workers, employees, and others.

Possess exceptional English written and verbal communication skills, including accurate grammar and business correspondence knowledge.

Ability to read and write memos, reports, and correspondence that conform to prescribed style and format.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collects data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Other Skills and Abilities:

Able to establish and maintain cooperative and positive working relationships.

Organized, detail-oriented, diplomatic, proactive, self-motivated, dependable, and driven by excellence.

Even-tempered and able to balance multiple tasks in accordance with changing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Ability to work sensitively and effectively with individuals of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

InnovAge Service Standards Requirements

Safety

Safety- Maintains a safe work place. Reports all unsafe work conditions to supervisor and/or Safety & Loss Control Manager and works in conjunction with supervisor, Safety & Loss Control Manager, and staff to correct unsafe work conditions. Follows and enforces all safety policies.

Accountability

Commitment - Commits to his/her job and to the success of the company. Continuously puts forth the effort to achieve goals and continuous quality improvement. Degree to which employee goes the extra step to ensure job/task completion. Takes initiative to offer ideas to improve processes or results.

Cooperativeness - Consistently supports management decisions as demonstrated by his/her actions. Demonstrates a "can do" attitude by responding positively to instructions. Follows instructions and works harmoniously with others to complete the job or task.

Attendance - Meets or exceeds punctuality and attendance expectations/requirements. Faithfully reports to work and conforms to scheduled work hours. When necessitated, follows call-in procedures and informs others of absences.

Caring

Customer Service - Embraces the organization's commitment to internal and external customer service and demonstrates a customer-centric approach when interacting with co-workers, participants, clients, and all other business contacts.

Confidentiality - Maintains confidentiality of employee, participant, and client data/information, and any other sensitive organization information as appropriate.

Integrity

Adherence to Company Policy - Follows and enforces guidelines as established by policies. Conforms to company and job standards and requirements. Shows respect for others. Acts in the best interests of the company at all times. Serves as an example for others. Conducts business in an ethical fashion.

Reliability - Completes responsibilities with minimal direct supervision. Follows through with assigned jobs and tasks all the way through completion. Puts forth the effort to achieve goals and objectives under varying circumstances.

Alignment with Company Goals & Objectives - Supports the organization's mission, vision, and values and holding self-accountable for applying these principles daily and personally living them when working with co‑workers, participants, clients, and all other business contacts.

Quality

Quantity of Work / Productivity - Produces at a high volume. Always puts forth the effort to maximize productivity. Meets or exceeds established work deadlines. Engages in a productive work effort whenever possible. Meets goals and objectives.

Quality of Work - Produces work that is accurate and reliable. Accomplishes work quickly and efficiently. Works in a thorough and organized manner while minimizing down time. Results are consistently within acceptable quality standards.

Job Knowledge - Demonstrates a thorough understanding of his/her job processes and procedures. Integrates knowledge to efficiently accomplish job requirements. Efficiently uses resources (including staff and management) to obtain additional knowledge.

Communication - Exhibits good interpersonal skills. Develops and fosters professional relationships with co-workers, participants, clients, and vendors. Keeps others informed as directed by operational demands and need-to-know. Keeps self-informed of announcement made via established company venues