Solutions Architect, Digital Consumer Products

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

1,001-5,000 employees

Hospitals

About the position

The Solutions Architect at Northwestern Medicine plays a crucial role in addressing business and clinical challenges through innovative technology solutions. This position involves researching, designing, and implementing solutions while collaborating with various teams to ensure alignment with architectural standards and organizational goals. The role emphasizes a patient-first approach and aims to enhance healthcare delivery through effective use of technology.

Responsibilities

• Execute the relevant portions of the architecture program with assigned solution development teams.
• Ensure that projects and product development conform to architectural standards.
• Participate in the architecture community of practice.
• Educate non-architecture team members on the 'why' behind standards and reference architectures.
• Contribute to the creation of product and capability roadmaps.
• Support architectural governance by conforming to review requirements.
• Ensure that relevant solution design documentation is created, maintained, and stored for reference purposes.
• Ensure that technical debt reduction is included in the backlog of each assigned team.
• Contribute to capturing and analyzing ESA metrics.
• Actively collaborate with architects in other domains during solution design and development.
• Prioritize composability and digital-first in solution design.

Requirements

• 1 - 3+ years in enterprise, application, technical, or information architecture design.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information Technology, or other degree with significant related IT and leadership experience.
• Demonstrate strong technical knowledge of application delivery methods and familiarity with how portfolios of systems work together to create enterprise solutions.
• Demonstrated results managing and/or influencing team members and serving as role model/mentor.
• Demonstrated expert knowledge on a variety of domain-specific areas such as coding languages (C, C++, JAVA, .NET, C#, Python, SQL), applications (Epic, Sitecore, ServiceNow), and technology (Microsoft, AI/ML, Orchestration).
• Understanding of current IT trends, key vendors, and their impact on business strategies, including Cloud technologies, Mobile applications, BI architecture, agile IT processes, usability architecture, and front-end design.
• Demonstrate ability to learn new technologies and leverage available tools to expand knowledge in areas outside existing scope of knowledge.
• Pragmatic, articulate, persuasive to execute architectural solutions from conception to deployment, including change management with key stakeholders.
• Demonstrate ability to mentor & guide junior team members for both solution architecture & professional development.
• Ability to effectively translate and present technology solutions in business or management terms.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years in healthcare information technology.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Loan forgiveness
• Tuition reimbursement