Atrium Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Enterprise Architecture.
Atrium Health is one of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations and the region’s largest primary network. Formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, Atrium Health began as Charlotte Memorial Hospital in 1940 and has grown its network to include more than 50 hospitals and 900 care locations, ranging from doctors’ offices to behavioral health centers to nursing homes.
Atrium Health focuses on delivering the highest quality patient care, supporting medical research and education, and joining with outside partners to keep its community healthy.
Director, Enterprise Architecture Job Overview
The Director, Enterprise Architecture, provides leadership and direction on technology strategy plans for Atrium Health’s technology environment, including the technical architecture, acquisitions, designs, and deployment of complex, integrated and standardized IS solutions to satisfy clinical and business functional requirements.
The CIO, who has been in place since August, is very supportive of this position and the CTO is accountable to make sure the position is both strategic and enterprise wide. The EA will be building out the standard enterprise architecture as well as looking at the next generation of enterprise architecture and bringing that to maturity.
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor’s Degree
6+ years as IS Executive experience managing operations services, teams & vendors
8+ years of experience in IT Service Management and Service Operations
Proven record of ITIL process implementation and continuous improvement
Strong technical knowledge of key platform technologies and infrastructure
Leading an EA program in an organization of similar scope and scale
Preferred and highly desired:
Master’s Degree
ITIL Expert Certification
Experience in quality and performance management
Familiarity with healthcare industry drivers such as Affordable Care Act, Population Health, and Meaningful Use Stages
Epic experience
Familiarity with EA structures (such as COBIT, for example)
Healthcare background
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Atrium Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Assistant Vice President Enterprise Architecture position.
The Assistant Vice President Enterprise Architecture is a Senior IS Executive accountable for providing top-level leadership and direction on technology strategy plans for Atrium Health’s technology environment, including the infrastructure and technical architectures, acquisition, design, and deployment of complex, integrated and standardized IS solutions to satisfy clinical, corporate and business functional requirements.
Atrium Health, formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and is one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations.
Key Network Indicators:
7,600 licensed beds
Over 65,000 employees
11.6 million patient encounters
$9,771,454 million net revenue
Position Description:
Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the AVP Enterprise Architecture is responsible for providing strategic technical direction on the solution architecture designs and systems engineering for infrastructure, middleware, mobile and platform solutions. The AVP Enterprise Architecture will oversee a staff of 14 (11 solution architects and three enterprise architects).
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
Over 10 years of previous IS Executive experience managing operations services, teams & vendors.
Over 12 years of experience in IT Service Management and Service Operations.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Relocation or residency in the Charlotte area.
Strong budgetary management abilities.
Proven background of being visionary and strategic.
Solid project management skills.
Desired:
ITIL Expert Certification strongly preferred.
Proven record of ITIL process implementation and continuous improvement.
A healthcare background is strongly desired.
Strong technical knowledge of key platform technologies and infrastructure, including cloud, WAN, telephony, storage, servers and desktops.
Experience in quality and and performance management an asset.
Ability to quickly and creatively analyze and provide solutions to complex challenges.
Familiarity with healthcare industry drivers such as Affordable Care Act, Population Health, and Meaningful Use Stages would be considered an asset.
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