Required Skills & Experience
Experience:
10+ years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, integration architecture, data architecture, cloud architecture, or comparable technical leadership roles.
Domain Experience:
Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale healthcare, supply-chain, logistics, procurement, inventory, financial management, clinical, or other mission-critical operational environments.
Architecture Expertise:
Experience developing enterprise and solution architectures, reference architectures, current- and future-state models, transition architectures, technical roadmaps, architecture decision records, integration blueprints, and modernization strategies. Ability to apply formal architecture frameworks and modeling approaches, including DoDAF, UAF, TOGAF, and/or equivalent methods.
Integration Expertise:
Demonstrated expertise designing API-led, event-driven, message-based, and batch integrations. Must be able to define reusable enterprise integration patterns; API and data contracts; canonical models; service orchestration; interface-versioning strategies; error handling; auditability; and operational monitoring. Experience with REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, Enterprise Service Bus and Enterprise Application Integration patterns, ETL/ELT, publish-subscribe, XML, EDI, HL7, and FHIR is required.
Data Architecture:
Experience with enterprise data modeling, master data management, data governance, data quality, metadata management, data lineage, authoritative-source management, data lakes, lakehouses, data migration, and modern data-engineering practices. Experience defining enterprise master-data models for items, vendors, contracts, classification references, and related supply-chain domains is strongly preferred. Technical Platforms and Technologies
Demonstrated architecture-level experience with containerized, cloud-native platforms, including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift; cloud platforms and services in AWS and Azure; and hybrid IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. Experience with Red Hat technologies, InterSystems integration technologies, Databricks, API-management and integration platforms, enterprise messaging, and data-platform services is required or strongly preferred.
Application and Legacy Technology Expertise:
Experience modernizing and sustaining legacy enterprise applications, including applications with complex custom-code, database, file-based, or mainframe-era dependencies. Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, .NET, Python, React, Angular, Node.js, and MUMPS-based applications is preferred. Candidates should understand API enablement, service decomposition, code refactoring, re-platforming, re-hosting, data migration, and phased legacy-system retirement.
Artificial Intelligence and Automation:
Experience designing, governing, or integrating AI-enabled systems, including machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, intelligent automation, agentic workflows, natural-language interfaces, workflow orchestration, and human-in-the-loop decision support. Must understand model governance, prompt governance, agent permissions, tool controls, data protection, testing, evaluation, traceability, monitoring, exception management, and responsible AI principles.
DevSecOps and Delivery Automation:
Experience establishing and governing DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, source-control workflows, automated testing, code-quality controls, deployment automation, configuration management, release engineering, and rollback strategies. Experience with GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, and comparable CI/CD and quality-management tools is required or strongly preferred.
Cloud Engineering and Observability:
Experience designing or governing cloud environments that include virtual private cloud networking, subnets, firewalls, load balancers, security groups, identity and access management roles, container orchestration, monitoring, and resiliency controls. Familiarity with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and other application-performance-monitoring tools is preferred.
Security and Compliance:
Experience incorporating Zero Trust, identity federation, access control, encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging, boundary protection, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, vulnerability management, secure coding, and API security into enterprise solution designs. Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, Risk Management Framework, assessment and authorization processes, and federal cybersecurity requirements is strongly preferred.
Identity, Secrets, and Certificate Management:
Experience designing or governing identity and access-management integrations, identity federation, service-account management, credential rotation, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle automation. Familiarity with Entra ID, external secrets-management services, PIV/CAC-oriented access controls, and certificate-management platforms is preferred.
Modernization Expertise:
Proven ability to modernize legacy applications, interfaces, and data pipelines while maintaining continuity of operations, data integrity, cybersecurity compliance, service availability, and user productivity. Must be able to evaluate and recommend refactoring, re-platforming, re-hosting, re-architecting, encapsulation, cloud migration, data migration, consolidation, replacement, or retirement approaches.
Agile Delivery:
Demonstrated success working in a scaled Agile environment and translating architecture into prioritized enablers, epics, features, stories, and release plans. Experience with SAFe, Agile product management, backlog refinement, dependency management, planning increments, architecture synchronization, and technical governance is strongly preferred.
Communication:
Exceptional ability to communicate complex architectural concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to executive leaders, business stakeholders, product teams, engineers, cybersecurity personnel, operations teams, and external partners. Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams, technical standards, roadmaps, decision records, and executive-level briefings is required.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, health informatics, data management, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
Clearance:
Must be able to obtain a Tier 2 / Moderate Risk Public Trust and a VA PIV credential.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Relevant professional certifications, such as:
TOGAF SAFe Architect SAFe Agile Product Manager AWS Certified Solutions Architect Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Red Hat Certified Specialist or Architect in OpenShift or cloud-native applications Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Databricks Certified Data Engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Equivalent architecture, cloud, security, data, or Agile certifications Experience with healthcare interoperability standards, including HL7 and FHIR. Experience integrating inventory, procurement, financial management, enterprise resource planning, clinical, logistics, warehouse-management, or asset-management systems. Experience with API management, enterprise integration, service orchestration, or middleware platforms. Experience with cloud data platforms, data lakes, lakehouses, data engineering, master data management, and modern ETL/ELT tooling. Experience designing or governing enterprise item, vendor, contract, classification, reference-data, or master-data-management solutions. Experience integrating external government, regulatory, manufacturer, supplier, vendor-validation, or product-identification data sources. Experience in a federal, public-sector, healthcare, or other highly regulated environment.
Job Description
The Enterprise Solution Architect (ESA) is the senior technical leader responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise architecture for a large-scale healthcare supply chain and logistics portfolio.
The ESA leads the sustainment and modernization of legacy business applications, inventory systems, procurement systems, financial management integrations, enterprise data capabilities, and shared digital services. This role establishes the architecture for a centralized integration platform that enables secure, scalable, governed, and near-real-time information exchange across supply chain, logistics, clinical, financial, asset-management, and external partner systems.
The ESA serves as the core technical leader responsible for planning, designing, and governing next-generation autonomous, goal-driven AI systems that support supply-chain modernization, operational decision-making, workflow optimization, enterprise data exchange, and intelligent automation.
This position balances continuity of mission-critical operations with deliberate, phased modernization. The ESA ensures that architecture decisions improve interoperability, data quality, cybersecurity, resiliency, maintainability, delivery velocity, and readiness for future digital capabilities.
This is a critical technical leadership role responsible for enabling a secure, integrated, resilient, and modern healthcare supply-chain ecosystem. The Enterprise Solution Architect protects current operational capabilities while establishing the architecture, governance, integration foundation, data discipline, modernization pathway, and intelligent automation capabilities required for future enterprise transformation.
