Solutions Architecture Senior Technical Lead - McLean, VA - Hybrid Working (Mon & Fri remote) - FT, Permanent - $180,000 - $210,000 + Benefits and Bonus

Solutions Architecture Senior Technical Lead
McLean, VA – 3 Days Onsite – Monday’s and Friday’s remote
FTE, Permanent
$180,000 - $200,000 + Benefits + Relocation (If Required)

Job Description

At our company, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation. 

As part of the company’s return to the office pilot, all employees, contingent workers and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to be on-site unless they have an approved accommodation.

Position Overview:

Are you a transformation champion? Are you passionate about technology transformations? Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the latest and greatest technologies? Do you have demonstrable record of enabling enterprise change through architectural leadership?

The company's Multifamily Business Unit is seeking a portfolio lead to provide leadership and oversight associated with the Solutions Architecture for Business Applications! You will lead a number of highly visible initiatives to support Multifamily Business and Engineering teams! You will help your team through transformation into Agile Architecture and will align with the Modern Delivery methodology within our company.

Our Impact:

·         Introduce the overall technical vision for a particular solution by defining and establishing the solution architecture

·         Define High Level Solution Intent, target state architectures and their roadmaps for portfolio products by collaborating with Business Architects, CPOs, POs, CDL and other business and IT partners to ensure alignment in visions, goals and objectives

·         Define and create reference architectures and architecture/design patterns to ensure consistent implementation of the architecture roadmaps

·         Own and drive development and maintenance of detailed solution intent, product architecture for a responsible ARTs (information, application, technology, security and deployment viewpoints) that addresses functional and non-functional requirements and ensures alignment in implementation

·         Plan and Develop Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities

·         Identify solution alternatives and/or new technologies to meet new business needs or tackle existing business concerns, such as customer experience, operational efficiency, performance and cost effectiveness

·         Participate in pre-deployment, deployment and post-deployment activities to ensure successful deployment

·         Participate in incident resolution process to help trouble-shooting, identify issue resolution and impact assessments

·         Build Reference Application/Implementation for reusability and accelerated adoption of new architectural standards/patterns

·         Develop/Maintain Application Design pattern catalog

Your Impact:

·         Collaborate with Business Architects, Chief Product Owner, Product Owner, Agile Coach to ensure Solution and Technical Architecture creation for a given requirement/feature/initiative

·         Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Risk & Security groups to ensure new and existing solutions are aligned with enterprise standards

·         Partner with business and IT customers to drive product research, RFP/vendor interview from technical perspective and POCs activities for COTS solution in a buy decision and is responsible for communicating business cases for TAWG/ARB approvals

·         Work with development leads on design brainstorming and design review to ensure alignment with architecture, patterns and standards

·         Work with ART members to resolve implementation issues from business or technical requirements, design, code, testing, to technology/platform

Qualifications:

·         Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required; Advanced degree preferred

·         10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture and Business Application development

·         Extensive experience in Solution Architecture patterns such as micro-front ends, microservices, 12 factor applications etc.

·         Prior Software development background

·         5+ years of relevant task management experience

·         Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures is required, as well as demonstrable record of leading architects through organizational transformations

·         3+ years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience as relates to architecture preferred

·         Prior experience in the primary or secondary mortgage industry is desirable

·         Deep knowledge of various enterprise level Platforms widely used in the industry preferred

·         Keys to Success in this Role:

·         Highly motivated and energetic self-starter with solid organizational and time management skills; demonstrable experience operating at high standards of quality and accuracy within a fast-paced changing environment

·         Superb communication, leadership, and relationship management skills, that enable partnering with and influencing key team members in an open, collaborative environment at all levels in an organization

·         Technical and Architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud based distributed systems

·         Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to succinctly present sophisticated subject matter, specifically translating technology problems/solutions to business team members

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Solutions Architecture - USA, San Francisco - $170,000 to $200,000

Solutions Architecture

USA, San Francisco

$170,000 to $200,000

Job Summary:

As the Solutions Architect on the New Hospital at Parnassus Heights (NHPH) Experience and Design Team, you will be at the front line of creating the next generation of healthcare delivery.

This position involves conceptualization, planning, designing, and implementing complete and integrated information technology (IT) solutions for the New Hospital at Parnassus Heights. Work is based on implementing the vision of the NHPH Experience and Design Team to establish an IT conceptual architecture that is time-independent but allows for the implementation of specific technologies over time with the ability to smoothly transition technology changes. Demonstrates a keen understanding of institution-wide and/or multi-organizational needs and long-term goals. Researches and prototypes emerging technologies and approaches. Works on issues that impact project success or address future concepts, products, or technologies. Understands and coordinates with NHPH team members, and other operational partners when appropriate, and understands various IT technology standards, best practices, and strategies for infrastructure growth. Define and prioritize opportunities to test new technologies and workflows that can be deployed in existing hospitals prior to the opening of the NHPH.

This position is responsible for leading the architecture of new health-related IT systems for a highly complex project - the new UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights, a state-of-the-art 21st-century adult-care hospital designed and equipped to provide an unsurpassed level of care for patients scheduled to open in 2030.

The new 15-story, 875,000 gross-square-foot (GSF) hospital will enable UCSF to provide much-needed capacity for additional acute, emergency, and intensive care beds, meet the state’s seismic requirements and provide an optimal healing environment that addresses social, psychological, spiritual, and behavioral components of health in one place. The holistic focus on the needs of patients reflects UCSF’s integrated research, education, and care delivery mission at Parnassus Heights. The new hospital will incorporate the latest innovations in technology and equipment for advanced complex care and bridge scientific research discoveries from bench to bedside leading to accelerated innovative treatments and therapies to benefit patients.

UCSF Health is a growing regional health system that includes UCSF Medical Center, the top-ranked hospital in California and among the top five nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report. The new hospital will be embedded within a campus that includes leading clinicians and scientists focused on translating discoveries into treatments and cures. UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center will be part of a planned broader revitalization of the Parnassus Heights campus that also will modernize facilities supporting our research and education priorities.

As a key member of the multi-disciplinary NHPH Experience Team, you will be at the front line of creating the next generation of healthcare delivery. By understanding needs today, and trends and innovations of tomorrow, you will facilitate the creation of future state workflow and service designs. This is an architecture position that defines business and technical architectures for digital enablement of health care needs, within the new hospital and enterprise as a whole. It involves the definition of health care business capabilities, customer journey maps and technology architectures, evaluation of and experimentation with digital technologies, hands-on development of prototypes, and review of architecture from others.  

To ensure a successful opening, the NHPH Experience Team will define and prioritize opportunities to test new technologies and workflows that can be deployed earlier in existing hospitals. Through this continuous learning approach, you will help prepare our frontline staff and operations, and design for patients and families a seamless care experience between UCSF Health and partner care facilities, as well as pre-and post-procedure at home.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will define and communicate health care business and technology capabilities that require digital integration, provide architecture leadership to the NHPH project and connect them with UCSF's digital roadmap and technology strategy, perform solution architecture review & technology solution alternatives analysis, and produce hands-on proofs of concept for technologies and business capabilities.

This position is a 3-year contract of employment with UCSF, inclusive of full-time benefits. This position will be required to work on-site at least 3 days per week. 

Clinical Systems and Health Informatics are responsible for all aspects of the clinical and business software applications of UCSF Health hospitals, practices, affiliates, and community partners. This includes the Electronic Health Record (APeX), which supports the clinical, revenue cycle, and clinical operational functions of the health system and its affiliates, and approximately 95 other software applications involved in patient care and operations.
 
Incumbent must be able to adhere to and emulate Clinical Systems and Health Informatics culture and core values as stated below: 
 
“People First: Patients are healthier and families happier with Clinical Systems to support them. Our solutions enable providers and staff to pioneer care, train the next generation of clinical leaders, and secure UCSF’s future. We use talent, creativity, and diverse skillsets to tackle tough problems.  We strive to be proactive, and make time to innovate, appreciate and connect. When something big is needed, we deliver. 
 
Clinical Systems Core Values include:
 
Judgment: Makes wise decisions, identifies root causes, thinks strategically, and prioritizes what to do now and what can be improved later.
 
Communication: Listens well, is concise and articulate in speech and writing, treats people with respect independent of their status, and maintains calm poise in stressful situations.
 
Impact: Accomplishes amazing amounts of important work, colleagues can rely upon you, focuses on results,
exhibits bias-to-action, and avoids analysis-paralysis
 
Innovation: Finds practical solutions to hard problems, suggests better approaches and new ideas that prove useful, and stays nimble by minimizing complexity and finding time to simplify.
 
Collaboration: Understands that work cannot be accomplished solely as an individual contributor; works through others to develop holistic solutions that meet our customer needs and the goals of the organization.

 

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

• 8 years of related experience in a medical center environment

• Experience in web/mobile/cloud software, web/mobile software language, and object-oriented software concepts. Knowledge of network protocols and how they are used on a large (campus / medical center / OP-wide, institution-wide, or beyond) network. May require advanced knowledge of API/ESB/middleware, data interoperability standards in clinical research and healthcare, cloud computing platforms, data storage, processing analysis, and visualization technologies, and how they are used in administrative and/or academic endeavors at a large, top-tier research university or medical center.

• Significant experience with the integration of highly complex, diverse, internally and externally developed implementations of business functions to build enterprise-class, scalable systems.

• Expert at estimating technology capital and operating costs.

• Expert knowledge of data storage, processing, and analysis and how they are used in administrative, medical, and/or academic endeavors.

• Expert knowledge of information management, and campus / medical center / OP business processes and strategic goals.

• Expertise relating to the design and development of information technology architectures across the organization

• Knowledge of software, database, infrastructure, and other IT functions. Knowledge relating to the design and development of software across an organization.

• Knowledge of other related areas of IT. Ability to apply department processes and procedures to work.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information and instructions to all levels of clinical application users in a specific, clear, and concise manner.

• Ability to understand business needs and how business systems can support those needs.

• Demonstrated ability to work with others from diverse backgrounds.

• Self-motivated and works independently and as part of a team. Demonstrates problem-solving skills. Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.

• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions. Expertise relating to the design and development of software across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Enterprise-level understanding of and experience with key modeling and description languages used to map highly complex business processes to architectural components, develop common, large-scale data resource architectures, and create reference frameworks.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Informatics

Why we're a great company

At UCSF Health, our mission of innovative patient care, advanced technology and pioneering research is redefining what’s possible for the patients we serve – a promise we share with the professionals who make up our team.

Consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals nationwide by U.S. News & World Report – UCSF Health is committed to providing the most rewarding work experience while delivering the best care available anywhere. In an environment that allows for continuous learning and opportunities for professional growth, UCSF Health offers the ideal atmosphere in which to best use your skills and talents.

Pride Values:

UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence – also known as our PRIDE values.

In addition to our PRIDE values, UCSF is committed to equity – both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available at diversity.ucsf.edu

Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The University of California San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.