Director, Enterprise Architecture

Hanger•Austin, TX

About The Position

Why Us? With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom. Could This Be For You? Works with IT/Business leadership and other cross-functional teams to define enterprise level strategies and technical direction. Defines the system, technical, and application architectures, and in some instances, the business systems architecture for major areas of development. Ensures appropriate technical standards and procedures are defined. Leads the creation and/or evolution of the enterprise architecture function/program including coordination of an appropriately balanced pursuit of enterprise business, information, technical and solution architectures. Leads the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to develop enterprise architecture requirements. Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact upon the enterprise. Leads the development of enterprise architecture governance structure based on business and IT strategies. Oversees enterprise architecture implementation and ongoing refinement activities. Directs the development and execution of a communication (including education) plan for enterprise architecture standards. Acts as a sounding board or consultant to IT and business leaders in the development of IT solutions for business needs. Your Impact Provides architectural vision to appropriately align IT to strategic business needs and goals. Maintains an ongoing partnership with the business to apply in-depth knowledge of the business operations, strategies, priorities and information requirements to establish the technical direction and an enterprise view. Defines enterprise level strategies and technical direction. Responsible for providing senior level expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise’s overall systems architecture. Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that guide the design of technology solutions including architecting and implementing solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems and applications across the enterprise. Reviews, advises and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Develops and documents the framework for integration and implementation for changes to technical standards Assists in the development of and manages an architecture governance process. Provides technical guidance to project team areas as appropriate. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise’s architecture needs. Defines the system, technical, and application architectures, and in some instances the business systems/process architecture for major areas of development. Ensures appropriate technical standards and procedures are defined. Manages the development of centers of excellence around key technologies. Ensures best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies. Researches, evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs. Ensures the delivery process and technology strategies are coherent and optimized. Manages multi-project management accountabilities in developing and architecting solutions in a collaborative environment. Oversees the design and delivery of proofs-of-concept for new or improved enterprise-wide technologies that are used across multiple areas of the business. Architects solutions across multiple hardware/software computing environments and system components. Plans and implements process re-engineering or process improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related IT field or equivalent work experience.
10+ years of experience in enterprise projects within the architectural domain.
Expertise in developing and architecting solutions in a collaborative environment, as well as significant experience in multiple hardware/software computing environments and system components.
Experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement involving broad-based information systems, utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change; business systems analysis experience.
Demonstrated experience in translating business strategies, across several business units, into effective solutions.
Possess ability to extract and translate business strategy into architectural requirements.
Demonstrate strong personal and organizational leadership skills.
Display ability to collaboratively produce quality solutions to meet organizational needs.
Comfortable with enterprise level decision making and is results oriented.
Ability to collaboratively participate in large scale multi-disciplined projects.
Ability to design and implement business architecture, processes and strategies.
Strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management.
Excellent analytical, planning, and communication skills.
Visionary in anticipating future IT direction and able to communicate that vision to IT and business partners.
Has 10 to 15 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations, with 3 years of leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
Senior level management.
Participates in the technical aspects of strategic decisions regarding IT for the enterprise.
Implements and manages those initiatives with complete autonomy.
Makes decisions for the organization based on the highest degree of technical complexity and through understanding the far-reaching implications across the IT organization.
Act with integrity in all ways and at all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships.
Keep the patient at the center of everything that you do, building lifelong trust.
Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you.
Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change.
Focus on superior outcomes, and calibrate work processes for outstanding results.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Systems or related field preferred.
Practical experience in the Health Provider and/or Payer industries. The experience should include a broad range of business/clinical solutions for each of those domains.
Working knowledge workflow, web interfaces, SOA, and telephony solutions.

Responsibilities

Works with IT/Business leadership and other cross-functional teams to define enterprise level strategies and technical direction.
Defines the system, technical, and application architectures, and in some instances, the business systems architecture for major areas of development.
Ensures appropriate technical standards and procedures are defined.
Leads the creation and/or evolution of the enterprise architecture function/program including coordination of an appropriately balanced pursuit of enterprise business, information, technical and solution architectures.
Leads the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to develop enterprise architecture requirements.
Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact upon the enterprise.
Leads the development of enterprise architecture governance structure based on business and IT strategies.
Oversees enterprise architecture implementation and ongoing refinement activities.
Directs the development and execution of a communication (including education) plan for enterprise architecture standards.
Acts as a sounding board or consultant to IT and business leaders in the development of IT solutions for business needs.
Provides architectural vision to appropriately align IT to strategic business needs and goals.
Maintains an ongoing partnership with the business to apply in-depth knowledge of the business operations, strategies, priorities and information requirements to establish the technical direction and an enterprise view.
Responsible for providing senior level expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise’s overall systems architecture.
Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that guide the design of technology solutions including architecting and implementing solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems and applications across the enterprise.
Reviews, advises and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits and impact on the enterprise business process and goals.
Develops and documents the framework for integration and implementation for changes to technical standards
Assists in the development of and manages an architecture governance process.
Provides technical guidance to project team areas as appropriate.
Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise’s architecture needs.
Manages the development of centers of excellence around key technologies.
Ensures best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.
Researches, evaluates and selects from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
Ensures the delivery process and technology strategies are coherent and optimized.
Manages multi-project management accountabilities in developing and architecting solutions in a collaborative environment.
Oversees the design and delivery of proofs-of-concept for new or improved enterprise-wide technologies that are used across multiple areas of the business.
Architects solutions across multiple hardware/software computing environments and system components.
Plans and implements process re-engineering or process improvement.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation Packages
8 Paid National Holidays & 4 additional Floating Holidays
PTO that includes Vacation and Sick time
Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
401k Savings and Retirement Plan
Paid Parental Bonding Leave for New Parents
Flexible Work Schedules and Part-time Opportunities
Generous Employee Referral Bonus Program
Mentorship Programs- Mentor and Mentee
Student Loan Repayment Assistance by Location
Relocation Assistance
Regional & National traveling CPO/CO/CP opportunities
Volunteering for Local and National events such as Hanger’s BAKA Bootcamp and EmpowerFest