Director and Enterprise Architect

HealthPartners is currently hiring for a Director and Enterprise Architect. This Director will lead a small team of enterprise architects across digital, administrative systems, care delivery, infrastructure, and data teams, driving enterprise-wide architectural strategy and execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion the implementation of technology standards and lifecycle management practices.
• Lead modernization efforts to enhance integration and development patterns, enabling IT transformation and accelerating value delivery.
• Anticipate and plan technology evolution to align with long-term business strategy.
• Serve as a strategic advisor, enabling both near- and long-term business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain models of technical and business capabilities, building a robust knowledge base.

This role is highly visible and central to HealthPartners’ digital transformation. The Director will collaborate across all areas of IT, translating enterprise strategy into actionable direction for the architecture team. Additionally, the Director will lead an advisory committee composed of leaders from across IT.

The Director reports to the Vice President of Digital Consumer & Sales Systems and is one of nine direct reports, which include fellow Directors, Enterprise Architects, a Project Coordinator, and a Senior Administrative Assistant. This Director leads a team of seven professionals, comprising four full-time employees and three contractors.

We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in healthcare, health plan operations, and healthcare management services. A strong command of both application and infrastructure architecture is essential. This role is pivotal in bridging business goals with technical execution—ensuring our architecture supports and accelerates HealthPartners’ mission.

Required Qualifications:

• Ten (10) years leading change and evolving technologies
• Five (5) years of staff management and leadership
• Fifteen (15) years of technical leadership with increasing responsibility
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating solutions.
• Strong digital business literacy and understanding of digital and emerging technologies
• Continuous learner- actively engaged in courses, webinars, and self-directed learning, and able to articulate key takeaways from these experiences
• Proficient communication skills, listening, and interpreting business strategy to technical strategy.
• Proficient analysis skills
• Strong influencing and persuasion capabilities
• Creative and innovative thinking
• Strong knowledge of agile development, product management and DevOps
• Excellent written and documentation skills
• Experienced presenter to all levels across an organization
• Strong understanding of the business drivers behind technical decisions
• Deep understanding of one tech stack and broad understanding of others
• Ability to communicate with developers at detailed technical level
• Ability to communicate and advocate technical needs to the business
• Ability and desire to inspire and drive change
• Experience with cloud providers and architectures 
• Experience with COTS systems
• Experience with internally developed systems new, and legacy
• Experience owning high availability and performance testing
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence
• Exceptional understanding of security needs
• Exceptional understanding of privacy concerns 
• Exceptional understanding of an engineering culture and how to build it
• Team building and team leadership capabilities
• Ability to mentor and train architects
• Exceptional understanding of vendor relationships
• Strong desire to learn and grow, active consumer of information.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3+) years in Digital Architecture or IT Modern Architecture
• TOGAF certification
• Azure certifications
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity principles (HI Trust, Zero Trust)
• Someone with mid/large complex organization experience

Hours/Location:

• M-F; Days
• This position follows a hybrid work model, with approximately 60% of time spent onsite and 40% remote. Onsite responsibilities are primarily based at 8170 33rd Avenue South, Bloomington, MN.

Responsibilities:

• Consulting across HealthPartners on the current and future architectural vision, digital integration, and service outcomes that underpin HealthPartners business ecosystem.
• Identifying technology, healthcare, and economic trends and assessing the digital impact to HealthPartners services.
• Leading architectural planning and building of a business-driven enterprise architecture; focusing on providing valued business outcomes.
• Communicating and enabling decisions about the impact of emerging technologies for technology enabled business models and operating models.
• Creating visibility and value impact of execution barriers.
• Providing scenario planning analysis and recommendations based on the greatest potential for successful business outcomes.
• Developing future state models of information and technology architecture.
• Promoting value driven digital solutions across HealthPartners for greater HealthPartners outcomes.
• Providing analytics and ongoing metrics for improved value-driven decision making.
• Ensuring defined standards, usable technical standards, identifying where compliance must be non-negotiable vs. flexibility and experimentation.
• Remediating technology problems via an integrated architecture across IT domains.
• Preparing and managing/monitoring budgets and expenditures; analyzing variances, authorizing expenditures, and establishing budgetary controls.
• Supervising staff, which includes having the authority to hire, transfer, lay off, promote, discipline and discharge, train, reward, and review performance of employees. Ensures compliance to organizational and departmental policies and procedures.
• Managing vendors, both project-based and staff-augmentation.
• May provide supervision, training, and oversight to dotted-line reporting relationships.