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), reports to the VP and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is the senior leader accountable for BJC’s enterprise-wide architectural direction (principles, governance, strategy, reference architectures, lifecycle management, and cross-domain coherence). This role leads the Core EA team in a federated EA operating model, defines and governs enterprise architecture principles and standards, and ensures coherent cross-domain decision-making across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration. The Director of EA partners closely with business and technology leadership, business relationship management, portfolio/program leadership, and domain capability owners to translate strategy into actionable roadmaps that accelerate delivery while reducing enterprise risk and fragmentation. This role ensures that architecture is a facilitator of execution, not a centralized bottleneck, by establishing clear decision rights, reusable guidance, and pragmatic governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise strategy to architecture translation: Partner with executive leadership and key stakeholders to translate business strategy into enterprise architecture direction, target states, and prioritized roadmaps.
- Own the EA governance model and decision rights: Define and run EA governance to promote speed, coherence, and value; ensure architectural decisions are made by the right role (enterprise, solution, domain) at the right time.
- Define enterprise principles, standards, and reference architectures: Establish and maintain enterprise-wide principles, standards, and reference models that enable consistent solution design and reduce fragmentation.
- Cross-domain alignment and arbitration: Facilitate cross-domain decision-making; arbitrate architectural conflicts and tradeoffs across applications, data, security, infrastructure, and integration.
- Roadmaps, lifecycle management, and modernization: Lead creation of enterprise modernization roadmaps and lifecycle strategies (e.g., platform and technology lifecycle management) aligned to business capabilities and risk posture.
- Architecture as a force multiplier for delivery: Ensure Solution Architects and Domain Architects have clear guardrails, patterns, and reusable assets so delivery teams can move quickly while remaining enterprise aligned.
Federated Team Structure and Collaboration
- Lead the Core EA team: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing EA core that serves as the custodian of enterprise direction, governance, standards, and best practices.
- Enable the federated architecture community: Establish operating rhythms, forums, and collaboration mechanisms that align Enterprise Architects positioned in other teams (e.g., Security, Data) and architects embedded in delivery.
- Develop architecture talent and role clarity: Maintain clear role boundaries across Enterprise, Solution, and Domain Architects (and Domain SMEs), including expectations, artifacts, and engagement points.
- Stakeholder engagement and influence: Communicate architecture direction in business-relevant terms; build trust with leaders by balancing risk management with delivery pragmatism.
Domain-Specific Responsibilities and Engagement Model
- Steward enterprise capabilities: Ensure enterprise-level ownership exists for critical cross-cutting capabilities (e.g., Integration Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Enterprise Data Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture) and that these capabilities produce actionable standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
- Integration and interoperability oversight: Promote an “interoperability first” mindset; prevent point-to-point sprawl through enterprise integration principles, reference architectures, and governance aligned with data and security.
- Risk, compliance, and resilience alignment: Ensure architecture guidance supports regulatory and privacy requirements (e.g., HIPAA/PHI), cybersecurity posture, resilience, and operational supportability.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and BRM team to shape roadmaps and determine demand scope.
- Guide application lifecycle and modernization roadmaps.
- Partner with other architects to ensure solution designs align to business capabilities, enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and security standards.
- Govern architectural alignment at key solution lifecycle checkpoints.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years in architecture roles with demonstrated enterprise-level impact (enterprise, solution, and/or domain architecture)
- 2-5 years proven leadership of an EA function, including governance, standards, and roadmap development in a complex organization
- Strong understanding across key enterprise domains: applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure (breadth with the ability to go deep when needed)
- Experience designing and operating federated models that embed architecture into delivery without sacrificing enterprise coherence
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management; ability to influence without direct control across federated teams
- Demonstrated ability to balance business value, speed-to-delivery, risk, security/privacy, and operational supportability in architectural decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare industry experience and familiarity with clinical/non-clinical application ecosystems and interoperability needs
- Experience with enterprise integration (API-led, event-driven, messaging, managed file transfer)
- Familiarity with EHR (Epic) integration leveraging tools like Cloverleaf/Rhapsody to manage HL7/FHIR interfaces
- Cloud platform strategy and modernization experience (including Azure), infrastructure lifecycle management, and resilience planning
- Background in data architecture, analytics/AI enablement, and data governance operating models
- Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent); security certification a plus.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree - IS/Business/related
Benefits and Legal Statement
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At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
- Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
- Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
- 401(k) plan with BJC match
- Tuition Assistance available on first day
- BJC Institute for Learning and Development
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
- Adoption assistance
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