Principal Enterprise Architect

Change Healthcare is a leading healthcare technology company with a mission to inspire a better healthcare system. We deliver innovative solutions to patients, hospitals, and insurance companies to improve clinical decision making, simplify financial processes, and enable better patient experiences to improve lives and support healthier communities.
Work Location:• Fully Remote - U.S.Core Responsibilities:
- Work with product managers, domain architects and engineers to develop modern, high-performing, cloud-native software architectures. The nature of these project will vary from enterprise platform component development to new product development and existing product re-platforming initiatives to cloud-native architectures.
- Drive incubation and innovation projects including the prototyping and development of proof-of-concepts and delivery of new technology components and products to market
- Development of enterprise architectural patterns and reference architectures that define best practices for software design and development as well as recommended use of enterprise technologies and services for application architecture, Change Healthcare Platform services and cloud environments
- Lead technical aspects of sensitive business advancement initiatives such as M&A, partner evaluations, 3rd party technology assessments and alignment with technology trends
- Lead tactical technology initiatives and architecture development for special or highly complex engineering projects and new engineering projects requiring senior leadership
- Provide architectural "governance" across the organization ensuring technology teams are adhering to best practices and established engineering disciplines
- Lead complex, cross-cutting, cross-functional IT projects
- Analyze trends within IT and providing recommendations to the enterprise
- Drive technology alignment, leverage, and synergy across the organization ensuring that engineering teams are aware of and aligned with each other's activities in order to maximize efficiency and reduce expense
- Establish and maintain relationships and a broad knowledge of the businesses, products and technologies across the organization
- Establish technical standards and ensure adherence through governance
- Collaborate with the executive team and all facets of the business in order to assess and recommend technical direction and/or technologies in support of company needs
- Develop and communicate business/technology alignment plans to executive team, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders
- Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for technology spending and initiatives
- Periodic industry contributor through active engagement in communities, white paper development, industry conferences and symposia while promoting the organization's objectives, services and relevant projects
- Coordinator of engagement with technology partners, vendors and 3rd parties
- Senior educator on industry trends and their business impact; new technologies and their application and applicability to the company; strategic design concepts
- Individual contributor or small team leader
Requirements:
- Proven ability to develop modern, cloud-native architectures for e-commerce scale, SaaS-based products
- Demonstrable ability to develop software, write and test code via modern programming languages and deploy cloud-native solutions. This assumes principal software engineer/developer or sr. software engineer/developer competency
- Proven ability to analyze and compose business and technical requirements and work with project leadership to formulate architectures and plans for execution
- Ability to research, compose, deliver and defend technical presentations to audiences of varying size
- Ability to participate in multiple, simultaneous projects and move with agility to new projects as required.
- Ability to rapidly ramp-up on new technology and become oriented to new projects in order to be effective in leading and participating as a senior architect and technologist
- Must possess excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to process complex information and deliver results and recommendations at levels consumable by both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This includes the ability to communicate, strategize and lead other (domain) architects
- Ability to present and defend technical proposals in front of audiences of varying size
- Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
- Strong leader skills - works well with people; able to determine roles needed to complete a project; ability to manage project and self effectively; comfortable communicating up & down the org chart
- Must demonstrate technology leadership skills, demonstrating the importance of good decision making and strategic discipline through example and mentorship
- Technical and IT expertise with the ability to communicate, strategize and lead other (domain) architects
- Expert in architecture design principles and system integration methodologies for geographically dispersed systems operating at e-commerce scale
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 8 years of experience working as an enterprise architect
- At least 8 years of recent experience working as a Software Engineer (able to write code today)
- At least 5 years analyzing business and technical requirements and data and working with project leadership to formulate cloud-native application architectures and plans for execution
- Proven planning skills and the ability to work with limited supervision and as part of an executive team
- Ability to engage with and bootstrap initiatives via hands-on engineering support including software development/coding, 3rd party tool analysis, provisioning and configuration is a plus
- Very articulate and polished communicator both through oral and in written form
- Experience coordinating and managing distributed teams of varying size and skill set and working with or as part of an executive team/matrixed organization
- A degree in information technology or engineering is preferred.
Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:
- Fully remote - U.S.
- Ability to effectively work as a remote employee (work-from-home)
- Online virtual meetings via tools such as Microsoft Teams
- Member of a distributed, geographically dispersed team
- Travel 5% (TBD)
Unique Benefits*:
- Flexible work environments
- Ready, Set, Grow Career Development Center & access to Change Healthcare University for continuous professional learning & development with more than 5,000 training assets
- Volunteer days, employee giving and matching gifts programs, community awards and dollars for doers, community partnerships
- Employee wellbeing programs and generous health plans
- Educational assistance programs
- US 401(k) or Group RRSP (Canada) savings plans with matching employer contributions
- Be sure to ask our Talent Advisors for more information on location specific benefits and paid time off policies
- Learn more at https://careers.changehealthcare.com
*Eligibility for some benefits may be limited or not available for part-time employees, be sure to speak with your Talent Advisor.
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Change Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicant will reveive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, or veteran status.