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We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.\nSummary:\n\nIn this role, you will serve as a strategic technical leader supporting enterprise architecture initiatives across business and technology domains. You will partner with business, product, engineering, CorpIT, data, and shared services teams to develop scalable, secure, and sustainable architecture solutions that align with organizational objectives. You will guide modernization efforts, establish architectural standards and reference patterns, evaluate enterprise tradeoffs, and support governance activities that promote consistency, efficiency, and long-term technology strategy alignment.\nResponsibilities:\nLead cross-domain architecture initiatives for complex enterprise programs and solutions.\nPartner with business units, product teams, engineering, CorpIT, and shared services to align architecture strategies with business goals.\nDevelop and maintain reference architectures, reusable patterns, and enterprise standards.\nGuide solution design activities by identifying dependencies, integration considerations, technical risks, and reuse opportunities.\nSupport modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, API-first architectures, event-driven solutions, automation, and emerging technologies.\nEvaluate architectural tradeoffs related to scalability, security, cost, supportability, risk, and operational efficiency.\nIdentify and communicate technical debt, duplicated capabilities, and enterprise architecture risks.\nRepresent Enterprise Architecture within governance forums, including Architecture Review Committee activities.\nMentor architects, engineers, and technical teams to strengthen architectural maturity and decision quality.\nCreate and maintain architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and technical documentation supporting enterprise initiatives.\nQualifications:\nRelevant degree preferred.\n7 or more years of relevant experience required.\nStrong experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture across complex technology environments.\nExperience designing architectures across applications, integrations, platforms, cloud technologies, and enterprise services.\nStrong understanding of architecture methodologies, API design, integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.\nExperience developing architecture artifacts, diagrams, roadmaps, and technical decision documentation.\nAbility to assess and communicate technical tradeoffs, enterprise risks, and operational impacts to technical and nontechnical audiences.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to influence, mentor, and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.\nWorking knowledge of enterprise architecture governance, modernization strategies, and AI-aware architecture planning.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00.This position is also incentive eligible.\nVizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! 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