Senior Solution Architect
Children's National Hospital
Summary
The Senior Solution Architect leads the design and deployment of complex data solutions tailored to meet business objectives. This role includes selecting and implementing the right technology stack, optimizing relational databases, and developing lakehouse strategies.
Job description
The Senior Solution Architect constructs and refines sophisticated data models and defines detailed data structures and nomenclature. They evaluate and integrate new data sources, ensuring they meet high standards of quality. Additionally, the Senior Solution Architect excels in visualizing and presenting data solutions to ensure clarity in addressing the problem and providing actionable insights. They also mentor junior architects and contribute to best practices.
Functional Accountabilities
Information & Data Architecture
- Enforce enterprise information standards, guidelines, and principles.
- Apply expertise regarding solutions information architecture.
- Enforce data architecture standards, working with Business, Application, and Operations counterparts to assure data integrity and consistency.
- Maintain documentation that maps data models to information systems and business applications.
- Aid architects to validate and fix information management issues related to data quality framework (completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, consistency, etc.).
- Manage data dictionary to improve documentation and coordination.
- Participate in building enterprise architecture information blueprints and data models that illustrate how information is stored, processed, and accessed in the enterprise.
- Lead data architecture, data sourcing, data flow, and solution discussions for data initiatives.
- Participate in enterprise information architecture discussions around needs and alignment to enterprise goals.
- Collaborate on data-related business requirements and perform data architecture reviews.
Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Gathering
- Collaborate with clinical, operational, and IT stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements for healthcare technology solutions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and primary interface for requirements refinement.
Solution Design & Architecture Leadership
- Enforce solution design by understanding opportunities and designing the best way to address them.
- Develop and review high-level designs, ensuring scalability, security, interoperability, and compliance.
- Assist in determining the best tool to solve each request.
- Apply expertise in available solutions to choose the right one for every situation.
- Architect robust solutions for patient care, data management, and operational workflows.
Strategic Alignment & Roadmap Development
- Ensure solutions align with organizational goals and technology roadmaps.
- Translate organizational objectives into actionable architectural plans.
Operational Excellence & Optimization
- Oversee tools and processes to enhance system performance and efficiency.
- Drive process improvements to optimize healthcare technology operations.
Innovation & Technology Advocacy
- Evaluate and recommend emerging healthcare technologies.
- Lead initiatives to introduce advanced solutions and future-proof the organization.
Mentorship & Team Leadership
- Mentor junior architects and engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Governance, Compliance & Security
- Advocate for best practices in healthcare data security and regulatory compliance.
- Comply with all policies and standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/statistical or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science)
- 6 years of related experience
- Experience working in a heavily regulated industry
- Advanced knowledge of product management
- Experience working with global distributed multicultural teams
- Experience with agile leadership
- Experience building, delivering and maintaining production ready products
- Knowledge of statistical data analysis and machine learning (linear models, time series forecasting, neural network, random forest, NLP models)
- Expert in Python coding and utilization of machine learning and statistical packages for modeling
- Database skills, SQL, NoSQL, coding for ETL
- Demonstrated analytical skills
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Excellent judgment and decision-making skills
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Great facilitation ability
- Attention to detail
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Adapt to changing priorities
Benefits
- Professional Development
- Continuous Learning
- Career Growth
Company overview
Children's National Hospital is a premier pediatric healthcare institution located in Washington, D.C., recognized as one of the top children's hospitals in the United States. Founded in 1870, it serves as the region's primary pediatric academic medical center, providing comprehensive care across all pediatric specialties. The hospital operates a 323-bed facility and offers advanced medical services including neonatal intensive care, pediatric surgery, oncology, cardiology, and neurology. As an academic medical center affiliated with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Children's National is deeply involved in pediatric research, medical education, and clinical innovation. The institution is particularly renowned for its Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and its leadership in pediatric genomics and precision medicine. Children's National consistently ranks among the top pediatric hospitals nationally, with specialties in cancer, cardiology, neurology, and neonatology receiving particular recognition for excellence in patient care and outcomes.