Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sentara Health is seeking a Clinical Systems Domain Architect to join their growing Clinical Systems Architect team. This role is responsible for providing strategic leadership, architectural guidance, and technical expertise across the Population Health portfolio, ensuring technology investments align with organizational goals and improve patient outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain application and capability roadmaps aligned to organizational strategy
- Partner with operational and clinical leaders to identify opportunities for innovation and workflow improvement
- Lead technology discussions that support population health, care management, ambulatory operations, and value-based care initiatives
- Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations to leadership
- Serve as the primary architect for assigned domains and applications
- Participate in governance, architectural review, and strategic planning activities
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, and long-term technology strategy
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve system integration, and optimize application portfolios
- Build strong partnerships with operational leaders, clinicians, project teams, and vendors
- Facilitate workshops, strategic planning sessions, and business acceleration initiatives
- Translate operational needs into technology solutions and architectural recommendations
- Provide mentorship and guidance to analysts and project teams
- Support major initiatives through planning, design, and implementation phases
- Assess impacts across workflows, applications, integrations, and reporting solutions
- Ensure solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles
- Assist with prioritization and strategic alignment of project portfolios
Skills
- 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree (Required)
- 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree (Required)
- Epic Ambulatory certification or Healthy Planet or Compass Rose (Required)
- Experience with Population Health, Arcadia, Health Plan, Healthy Planet, Care Management, Community Connect, Case Management or value-based care programs (Required)
- Minimum 5 years of healthcare information systems experience (Required)
- Experience supporting Epic Ambulatory or related ambulatory healthcare applications (Required)
- Strong understanding of population health workflows and healthcare operations (Required)
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional discussions and influence stakeholders (Required)
- Experience developing strategic recommendations and presenting to leadership (Required)
- Epic Cogito (Preferred)
- Experience with enterprise architecture, application rationalization, or technology road mapping (Preferred)
- Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and integration technologies (Preferred)
- Nice to have TOGAF, PMP, Agile, or related professional certifications
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
- Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
- Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
- Emergency Backup Care
- Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
- Life Insurance
- 401k/403B with Employer Match
- Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
- Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
- Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
- Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met
Company Overview
Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission - "we improve health every day." Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. It was founded in 1988, and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, US, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.sentara.com.