Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture

Ascension Technologies Enterprise Architecture’s vision is to: Unify and drive the strategic plan through innovative, competitive, secure, resilient technology in alignment with Ascension’s mission. Advocate for positive change and innovation to achieve Ascension’s targeted business outcomes. Organize and drive efficiency across the current state architecture and architecture organization.

• Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the interconnected domains of business, information, application, infrastructure, and security architectures that collectively implement the business capabilities required to accomplish business goals.
• Ascension Technologies Enterprise Architecture’s vision is to: Unify and drive the strategic plan through innovative, competitive, secure, resilient technology in alignment with Ascension’s mission.
• Advocate for positive change and innovation to achieve Ascension’s targeted business outcomes.
• Organize and drive efficiency across the current state architecture and architecture organization.

• Strong Cloud, Micro Services, APIs, Data and AI strategy skills.
• Ability to lead C-level conversations with client stakeholders to ensure technology solutions that align with customer needs, while also leveraging existing enterprise capabilities and adhering to Key Enterprise Architecture Principles (KAPs).
• Ability to be hands on as well as direct the team to drive time to value, clear business outcomes and value.
• Strong ‘presentation, communication and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to act as a thought leader in understanding consumer needs, experience and business objective to champion end to end solutions on an enterprise scale and drive digital transformation.
• Strong understanding of technology platforms and modern technologies/approaches to drive technology that is innovative, competitive, secure and resilient.
• Ability to quickly evaluate options, unlock enterprise challenges, make technology recommendations, and recommend solutions within a diverse technology environment with multiple stakeholders inside customers’ environments.
• Ability to communicate broad business initiatives and translate them into measurable objectives and concrete goals for other architects.
• Familiarity with working in a product model and agile development based environment
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and gray spaces.
• Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, conflict management, prioritization and relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple work commitments, producing high quality work products under pressure and within deadlines.

• Paid time off (PTO)
• Various health insurance options & wellness plans
• Retirement benefits including employer match plans
• Long-term & short-term disability
• Employee assistance programs (EAP)
• Parental leave & adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement

Ascension Technologies Enterprise Architecture’s vision is to: Unify and drive the strategic plan through innovative, competitive, secure, resilient technology in alignment with Ascension’s mission. Advocate for positive change and innovation to achieve Ascension’s targeted business outcomes. Organize and drive efficiency across the current state architecture and architecture organization.