Principal Enterprise Architect, Business Architecture

Healthcare’s helping hand.

CHG shook things up in 1979 by inventing the locum tenens staffing model. We connect doctors with patients who need their care. As the largest physician staffing firm in America, our providers treat millions of patients each year.

Our industry is growing and demand is high. This means you’ll have plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in your career. Keeping healthcare healthy can be as fun as it is rewarding

CHG Healthcare's Enterprise Architecture practice is looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect, Business Architecture to join our growing EA team. The Enterprise Architecture team sets the standards, frameworks, and architectural direction that guides how CHG's technology portfolio evolves, enabling our staffing brands to operate with greater alignment, efficiency, and strategic clarity. As the Principal Enterprise Architect, Business Architecture, you will own CHG's business architecture domain, translating strategic intent into capability models, value stream maps, and domain frameworks that connect business direction to technology investment, including helping CHG identify and win with AI. This role reports to the VP, Head of Enterprise Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain CHG's business architecture artifacts, including capability models, value stream maps, and domain decompositions, keeping them current as living references that reflect both the current and target operating states.

• Identify where AI and machine learning create high-value capability leverage across CHG's business domains and define the architectural patterns that enable those outcomes.

• Create Target State Architectures and roadmaps for business domains and establish governance to ensure achievement of business goals.

• Partner with business and product leaders across CHGs business teams to translate strategic intent into structured architecture artifacts.

• Lead architecture reviews for significant initiatives, providing authoritative guidance on capability fit, process impact, and domain boundaries.

• Drive capability gap and redundancy analysis across CHG's brand portfolio, producing clear business cases for platform consolidation and investment prioritization.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in business architecture methods including capability modeling, value stream mapping, and domain decomposition, with hands-on artifact delivery rather than advisory exposure alone.
• Demonstrate competency in Information Security, Cloud, Data and Integration Architecture disciplines. Experience with integrating with SaaS solutions applying secure data and integration patterns and standards.
• Support vendor evaluation efforts and perform research and provide guidance on competitive advantages
• Practical understanding of AI and machine learning concepts as they apply to business capability design, including AI use case identification and AI-enabled process design.
• Demonstrated ability to own a domain, drive standards adoption, and influence without direct authority in a matrixed, multi-brand organization.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead workshops and build alignment among diverse, senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in architecture modeling tools such as LeanIX, Ardoq, or Sparx EA, and familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate.

Education & Experience

• 15+ or more years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or a closely related strategy and technology discipline is required.
• Masters or bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field is required, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

• Experience designing or governing AI-enabled business capabilities in a production enterprise environment.

• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and responsible AI principles.

• Experience in healthcare, healthcare staffing, or a similarly regulated industry

• Experience contributing to an EA practice buildout from early foundation stages through to steady-state operation.

We believe in fair compensation for all of our people, which is why our pay structure takes into account the cost of labor across U.S. geographic markets. For this position, we offer a pay range of $163,700 -- $316,500 annually, with pay varying depending on work location and job-related factors such as knowledge, position level and experience. During the hiring process, your recruiter can provide more information about the specific salary range for the job location.

CHG Healthcare offers starting salaries for sales positions in the form of total target compensation (TTC = base + commission + bonus), which includes base pay, commission, and bonuses. Sales positions receive short-term incentives through commission plans and bonuses. On the other hand, non-sales positions have starting salaries that consist of a base salary and short-term incentives through various bonus plans, which are paid out monthly, quarterly, or annually.

In return we offer:

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Traditional healthcare benefits such as medical and dental coverage, and some unique benefits like onsite health centers, corporate wellness programs, and free behavioral health appointments.
• Flexible work schedules - including work-from-home options available
• Recognition programs with rewards including trips, cash, and paid time off
• Family-friendly benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption assistance, and marriage counseling
• Tailored training resources including free LinkedIn learning courses
• Volunteer time off and employee-driven matching grants
• Tuition reimbursement programs Click here to learn more about our company and culture.

CHG Healthcare values a diverse and inclusive workforce. Interested in this role but not a perfect fit? Apply anyway.

We welcome applicants of any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status and individuals with disabilities as an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are an at-will employer.

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