Sr Applications Architect

Entity: Corporate Services

Department: IS-EPIC

Location: Remote (3550 Market Street)

Hours: (must live reasonable distance from location) M-F, Daylight

Provides leadership in developing the product integration strategy, overall suite architecture and design, best in class user experience, availability and scalability. Provides a balanced perspective of technical, architectural and business considerations while being a catalyst for transformation and future-proofing the architecture. Drives recommendations for technology adoption from a total-enterprise perspective.

Accountabilities

• Manages the application development life cycle including definition and documentation of project scope and implementation plans.
• Mentors product architects across the suite and implements a decision making and architecture governance process.
• Ensures appropriate resources are identified for all project activities including design, development and testing.
• Evaluates and identifies appropriate technology platforms for delivering the organization's services.
• Drives adoption of integration patterns and technologies, considering application, data and business integration.
• Identifies technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.
• Leads solution design, builds consensus and executes the recommended solutions.
• Recommends appropriate and proactive courses of action to analysts and management on technical and infrastructure issues.

Minimum Requirements

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree is required (preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or allied disciplines)
• 7+ years working directly with the application suite on technical/workflow build, maintenance and project related tasks is required.
• 5+ years of experience in software architecture is required.
• 5+ years leading technical application projects ranging from simple to complex.
• Core application proficiency across multiple areas is required.

Required Skills and Abilities

• COMMUNICATION: Ability to communicate technical information and ideas
• COMMUNICATION: Demonstrated interpersonal/verbal communication skills
• COMMUNICATION: Able to translate complex information into simple explanations
• PROJECT/CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Ability to manage concurrent projects while meeting project deadlines
• Ability to manage projects from inception to successful implementation.
• Fluent understanding of vendor application infrastructure and design, able to articulate how data flows through application to downstream systems.

Additional Information:

As part of our COVID-19 response, this position may currently be offering partial or full remote work. However, in the near future this position will require full or partial on-site work.

Because growth is essential to continuing to meet the current and future needs of patients, Penn Medicine continues to expand its capabilities.