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Senior Enterprise Architect (Hybrid)

Chicago, IL

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the nation's largest professional Association of physicians and a non-profit organization. We are a unifying voice and powerful ally for America's physicians, the patients they care for, and the promise of a healthier nation. To be part of the AMA is to be part of our Mission to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

At AMA, our mission to improve the health of the nation starts with our people. We foster an inclusive, people-first culture where every employee is empowered to perform at their best. Together, we advance meaningful change in health care and the communities we serve.

We encourage and support professional development for our employees, and we are dedicated to social responsibility. We invite you to learn more about us and we look forward to getting to know you.

We have an opportunity at our corporate offices in Chicago for a Senior Enterprise Architect (Hybrid) on our Digital Strategy team. This is a hybrid position reporting into our Chicago, IL office, requiring 3 days a week in the office.

As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will provide the organization with a centralized, accurate view of how business capabilities, applications, technologies, data, vendors, and integrations work together across the enterprise. This role stewards the enterprise architecture repository, working with business and IT stakeholders to maintain information on business capabilities, applications, data, technologies, vendors, integrations, ownership, and lifecycle. The role facilitates alignment, identifies dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities, and supports governance, portfolio management, technology rationalization, and strategic planning through research, analysis, and recommendations. .

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Enterprise Architecture Information Management

• Maintain the AMA’s enterprise architecture repository, including applications, business capabilities, technologies, vendors, interfaces, business units, and other applicable architecture information.
• Create, update, and maintain relationships among business capabilities, applications, technologies, vendors, owners, integrations, and analyze application dependencies and data-sharing needs to inform architecture recommendations.
• Apply established data standards, naming conventions, classifications, lifecycle definitions, and required attributes to ensure consistent architecture information.
• Monitor the architecture repository for incomplete, outdated, duplicate, inconsistent, or inaccurate information and coordinate corrections with responsible stakeholders.
• Conduct recurring reviews and certification activities with business and IT owners to ensure architecture information remains current.
• Maintain architecture views, dashboards, reports, and other repository content used to communicate the current state of the enterprise.

Business Architecture & Data Governance

• Develop, maintain, and refine business capability maps and associated capability hierarchies in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
• Facilitate the identification, definition, decomposition, and alignment of business capabilities across business functions to ensure appropriate scope, granularity, and consistency.
• Map business capabilities to applications, organizational units, processes, information, and other relevant architecture elements to establish traceability between business needs and technology.
• Identify capability overlaps, gaps, redundancies, and areas where capabilities may be inconsistently defined or represented across the organization; perform analysis and develop recommendations for stakeholder review.
• Establish and execute routine processes for collecting, validating, and maintaining enterprise architecture information from business and IT stakeholders.
• Monitor data-quality metrics, reconcile information with authoritative enterprise sources, and coordinate resolution of data-quality issues with responsible stakeholders.
• Analyze application portfolio information, including licensing and utilization considerations, identify trade-offs, and develop recommendations.

Advisory Governance & Standards Support

• Maintain and evolve architectural principles, patterns, and reference models as advisory guidance.
• Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards and highlight areas requiring exception handling.
• Document and track architectural exceptions, ensuring visibility into long‑term impacts.
• Provide consultative support to teams adopting new platforms, integration patterns, or data models including researching and analyzing integration options and recommending solutions.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to ensure coherence across domains.
• Inform roadmap development through independently assessment and research of technical debt, modernization opportunities, and lifecycle considerations, and develop recommendations.

May include other responsibilities as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

• Education: Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience and HS diploma/equivalent education required (P1-P4/M1-M2)
• Years of experience: 5+ years in enterprise architecture, business architecture, IT architecture, application portfolio management, technology portfolio management, IT governance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise architecture information, business capability models, architecture repositories, or comparable portfolio-management systems, with strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.

The American Medical Association is located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 and is convenient to all public transportation in Chicago.

This role is an exempt position, and the salary range for this position is $115,523.42-$150,972.44. This is the lowest to highest salary we believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s pay within the salary range will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to business consideration and geographical location, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan. To learn more about the American Medical Association’s benefits offerings, please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.

THE AMA IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE NATION