Sr. Solution Architect - Data (Hybrid)

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

Imagine yourself as part of a world class academic medical center. You walk down the halls of a large new hospital and see the solutions that you helped architect touch the lives of patients, caregivers, and staff. You see the software applications you helped select and solutions you designed being used with medical devices to deliver patient care. You enter a patient room and see the IV pump, the vitals machine, the entertainment system and realize that how you've spent your time at work is making a difference in the lives of so many people, many of whom you may never know. You journey into employee areas and see supply chain at work, see automated robots delivering materials, see pharmaceutical drug packaging and automation and realize that you've been a part of the design. Then you walk into another area and see imaging modalities being used for diagnosis and precision therapies being delivered knowing you were part of the solutions. You meet with professors and principal investigators who are innovating the patient care of tomorrow and you're part of the team. This is what it's like to be a Sr. Solution Architect here. If influencing next generation solutions excites you, then consider joining our Solution Architecture team. We have architected hundreds of solutions that are in use today.

To become part of the team, you will need a strong work ethic, high integrity, and to be intellectually curious, driven, enthusiastic, meticulous and a continual learner. You will lead and be responsible for creating and owning blueprints from ideation through design of new and changing Stanford Health Care applications. You'll work with business, application, and technology owners, as well as researchers and vendors to understand the problems that need to be solved, the requirements that need to be met, and how to architect solutions that are fit for purpose. You'll need to understand architecture principles, techniques and methodologies, and have experience in translating what the business wants or needs into technical solutions. You'll have project objectives and goals that will require collaboration with many others in the Stanford community, e.g., Stanford Children's Health, Stanford University.

You'll need to understand Enterprise Architecture functional and non-functional requirements. You'll need to conduct market research on vendors, evaluate solutions, develop current and future state architecture, as well as the necessary architecture views required of your audience. You'll need to understand how to conduct trade-off analyses, determine pros/cons of solutions, detail architecture risks, recommend a solution, and then present your solution recommendation to an Architecture Review Board. You'll need to know or learn which solutions may be FDA regulated and what data is considered protected health information under HIPAA. If standard modeling tools and notations are new to you, then it will be the first of many things that you'll need to pick up. The Solution Architecture team uses ArchiMate and BPMN to model architecture in our Enterprise Architecture tool. And you may use Visio and PowerPoint to deliver presentations based upon audience. To be successful, you'll need top-notch communication skills.

Because we're all about research and delivery of health care, health care experience is strongly preferred. Familiarity with clinical trials and other research oriented architectures and processes is a plus. Since Solution Architecture is part of Enterprise Architecture, familiarity and practice of applying TOGAF or similar frameworks required. You will need both a broad background and a deep understanding of information technology, applications, tools, and methodologies, as well as a proven track record of designing scalable, manageable, secure and highly available clinical technologies.

You'll need to be highly motivated, and able to define standards, patterns, and best practices. You'll be expected to have mastered the art of developing multiple architecture views in whatever format is required based on audience. You'll need to stay current with emerging technologies, be comfortable leading solution discussions, whiteboarding solutions and options in customer facing situations, and preparing compelling presentations for an executive audience. In addition, you'll be expected to mentor other solution architects.

The following information is the standard job description text for all positions of this type at Stanford Health Care and has not been tailored to this specific position.

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A Brief Overview

The Senior Solution Architect role is primarily responsible for defining infrastructure solutions in support of the objectives corresponding to clinical, administrative, and information technology enterprise initiatives which are following established methodologies, procedures, and guidelines. As a senior member of the team, the highly motivated candidate will also define and refine solution patterns and best practices, as well as mentor other solution architect members.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Oversee solution development and practice by facilitating in-depth technical discussions with subject matter experts for complex problems

• Manage definition and training of solution architecture process lifecycle, standard artifact templates, solution design samples, solution patterns, and best practices

• Mentor fellow solution architects by providing feedback via solution design peer reviews, and coaching related skills and techniques

• Lead program or organizational level work effort demand analysis by providing systematic effort and duration estimations for incoming projects

• Guide portfolios in capability roadmap definitions related to infrastructure impacts and dependencies

• Represent the liaison between infrastructure technology domains and the information and application layers

• Build and leverage relationship with key technology partners and vendors

• Act as the conceptual source for solutions involving more than one area of specialization and/or innovative system design

• Conceive, design, optimize, and integrate information technology based solutions to complex business problems

• Collaborate with customers to analyze and translate business requirements and vendor provided system specifications of the solution into a cohesive design

• Conduct and review detailed technical design with technology subject-matter experts; transition design to solution engineers and assist with implementation plan construction

• Stay aware and informed about scope and requirement changes to the designed solutions; ensure documentation is updated in alignment with the changes

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Experience Qualifications

• Fifteen (15) years of Solution Architecture experience (or equivalent experience in relevant architecture domains); experience in a healthcare IT environment preferable

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Possess breadth and depth of knowledge and experience across the following information technology domains: data center technologies (compute, storage, virtualization, network), and end user devices (workstation, mobile devices)

• Extensive infrastructure experience. Familiarity with prevalent storage technologies and understanding of service oriented architectures

• Expert level experience with public and private cloud services (i.e. VMware, AWS, Google, Azure, etc.)

• Knowledge of clinical applications, e.g. Epic, PACS, Safetrace TX, Ensemble, Nurse Call, Omnicell, Genomics, etc.

• Knowledge of security solutions and security best practices.

• Deep understanding of information technology approaches, applications, tools, and methodologies, as well as a broad background in a variety of technology platforms

• Proficiency with Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, and collaboration tools

• Experience white-boarding solutions and options in customer-facing situations

• Demonstrated success on quickly understanding business requirements and aligning capabilities to solutions

• Proven track record of designing scalable, manageable, and highly available technical solutions

• Excellent communication skills (e.g., active listening, requirements elicitation, oral, written, presentation, group facilitation, consensus building)

• Energetic, self-starter with a hunter mentality and strong work ethic

• Excellent team player, coupled with reliability and dependability

• Remain calm and positive as leader

• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

• Ability to handle multiple parallel activities

• Ability to develop business cases for new technology solutions

• Ability to plan strategically both long-term and short-term

• Ability to apply information technology in a healthcare setting

• Ability to be user-focused, build relationships and communicate effectively

• Ability to collaborate with multiple service providers

• Ability to demonstrate initiative, good judgment and effective decision-making; exhibit strong process improvement orientation, and can achieve results through other programs and individuals

• Ability to lead and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization

• Ability to plan and execute vendor and product selections

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $83.89 - $111.16 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

At Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

As part of our spirit of discovery, we also leverage our deep relationships with luminary Silicon Valley companies to develop new ways to deliver preeminent patient care.

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