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As a recipient of the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, HSS was the first hospital in New York City to receive the distinguished designation. Whether you are early in your career or an expert in your field, you will find HSS an innovative, supportive and inclusive environment.\nWorking with colleagues who love what they do and are deeply committed to our Mission, you too can be part of our transformation across the enterprise.\nEmp Status\nRegular Full timeWork Shift\nCompensation Range\nThe base pay scale for this position is $173,500.00 - $264,250.00. In addition, this position will be eligible for additional benefits consistent with the role. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to: scope of role, level of experience, education, accomplishments, internal equity, budget, and subject to Fair Market Value evaluation. The hiring range listed is a good faith determination of potential compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.What you will be doing\nPosition Summary\nThe Director of Enterprise Architecture is a senior technology leader responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously advancing HSS's enterprise architecture program. The Director leads a team of enterprise architects and provides strategic and technical direction across network, cloud, cybersecurity, and core systems infrastructure.\nThis role ensures that HSS's technology investments and solution designs are secure, scalable, resilient, interoperable, and aligned with institutional priorities. The Director establishes architecture governance, standards, roadmaps, and review processes while partnering with technology, clinical, operational, research, and executive leaders to translate organizational needs into cohesive enterprise solutions.\nThe successful candidate will bring broad expertise across all four technology domains and deep knowledge in at least one-preferably network architecture or cybersecurity. This leader must combine strategic thinking and people leadership with a hands-on, do-it-yourself approach to solving complex technical problems.\nKey Responsibilities\nEnterprise Architecture Program Leadership\nEstablish, lead, and continuously improve HSS's enterprise architecture program, including its operating model, governance structure, engagement processes, mission, services, performance measures and multiyear roadmap. \nLead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of enterprise architects supporting network, cloud, cybersecurity, and core systems infrastructure. \nDefine and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, design patterns, decision frameworks, technology lifecycle practices and architecture review processes that enable timely, consistent and well informed technology decisions. \nEnsure architectural decisions align with HSS's clinical, operational, research, financial, security, and strategic priorities. \nServe as the primary escalation point for complex architectural decisions and cross-domain technical issues. \nMeasure and communicate the enterprise architecture program's impact, progress, risks, and priorities to senior leadership. \nArchitecture Strategy & Governance\nDevelop and maintain enterprise technology strategies and roadmaps across network, cloud, cybersecurity, and core systems infrastructure. \nChair or lead enterprise architecture review boards and other technical governance forums. \nOversee architecture reviews for major technology initiatives, ensuring solutions meet requirements for security, scalability, reliability, interoperability, supportability, and cost-effectiveness. \nIdentify technical debt, architectural risks, capability gaps, and modernization opportunities across the enterprise. \nDevelop actionable recommendations and investment priorities for executive and technology leadership. \nEnsure architecture standards are practical, clearly documented, broadly understood, and consistently applied. \nPartner with portfolio, project, engineering, and operations leaders to integrate architecture activities into planning and delivery processes. \nMaintain appropriate documentation of architecture decisions, exceptions, dependencies, and risk acceptance. \nSolution Architecture & Delivery\nDirect the architecture of complex enterprise solutions spanning multiple technology domains. \nGuide the design, development, and production deployment of internally developed technical workflows and integrated solutions encompassing at least three of the following domains: network, cloud, cybersecurity, and core systems infrastructure. \nEnsure business, clinical, operational, security, and regulatory requirements are translated into scalable technical designs. \nProvide architectural oversight throughout the solution lifecycle, from requirements and conceptual design through implementation, production deployment, and optimization. \nPartner with engineering and operations teams to ensure approved architectures are implemented successfully and can be supported in production. \nEstablish technical acceptance criteria and validate solutions against architecture, security, performance, availability, and resiliency requirements. \nParticipate directly in complex designs, prototypes, scripting, and technical problem-solving when appropriate. \nPromote the use of automation and scripting through PowerShell, Python, or equivalent technologies. \nTeam Leadership & Development\nRecruit, lead, mentor, and retain highly performing team of enterprise architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, curiosity and continuous improvement. \nDefine clear roles, responsibilities, career paths, and performance expectations for the architecture team. \nAllocate architecture resources across enterprise initiatives based on strategic importance, complexity, risk, and organizational capacity. \nEncourage architects to challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and develop practical solutions to complex problems. \nIntroduce new technologies, methodologies, and architectural practices to the team and broader technology organization. \nEstablish training, mentoring, documentation, and knowledge-sharing practices that strengthen architecture capabilities across HSS. \nFoster strong working relationships between architects and traditional IT engineering, operations, security, application, and support teams. \nSecurity, Risk & Compliance\nEmbed security, privacy, resiliency, and regulatory requirements into enterprise architecture standards and solution designs. \nEnsure technology architectures align with HIPAA, HITECH, and other applicable healthcare security and privacy requirements. \nPartner with cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and risk teams to identify and mitigate architectural and operational risks. \nPromote secure-by-design, least-privilege, defense-in-depth, and zero-trust principles. \nEnsure architecture decisions account for high availability, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident response, and the demands of a patient-care environment. \nSupport risk assessments, audits, remediation planning, and technology control reviews. \nAI, Automation & Emerging Technology\nEvaluate artificial intelligence development and orchestration frameworks for appropriate enterprise use cases. \nGuide the secure, responsible, and scalable adoption of AI-enabled technologies within HSS. \nSponsor proofs of concept and technical evaluations to validate new technologies before enterprise adoption. \nPartner with data and analytics teams on solutions involving data platforms, data integration, data engineering, analytics, and AI capabilities. \nEstablish architectural guardrails that enable innovation while protecting institutional data and technology resources. \nExecutive Communication & Collaboration\nServe as a trusted technology advisor to Digital & Technology leadership and other senior stakeholders. \nTranslate complex technical issues into clear business implications, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations. \nPresent architecture strategies, roadmaps, investment needs, and major decisions to executive and governance audiences. \nBuild alignment among technical teams with different priorities, operating models, and areas of expertise. \nPartner with clinical, research, operational, application, data, engineering, security, and infrastructure leaders on enterprise initiatives. \nCollaborate with vendors and technology partners to evaluate solutions, validate designs, and ensure alignment with HSS standards. \nRepresent the enterprise architecture function in strategic planning, portfolio governance, vendor selection, and major technology investment decisions. \nQualifications\nRequired\n10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise technology, infrastructure engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, or a related field. \n5+ years of leadership experience managing 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