Texas Children's Hospital
Job Description
We're looking for a
Senior Enterprise Architect , someone who's ready to grow with our company. In this position you will have a major role in providing lead technical services to analyze, design, and deliver clinical/business solutions. Lends expertise to answer technical consulting questions, individually or as part of a project team. Serves as a senior subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures associated with enterprise applications plan. Prepares and participates in "deep dive" technical evaluation meetings, investigating processes to understand data and communications flow within Integrated Delivery System. Think you've got what it takes?
Job Duties & Responsibilities • Develop and maintain enterprise cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and service catalogs • Design secure, scalable, and highly available multi-cloud solutions across IaaS, PaaS, serverless, and container platforms • Drive application migration strategies including re-host, re-platform, modernization, and cloud-native deployment patterns • Work closely with cybersecurity to ensure Zero Trust principles, encryption, identity governance, and compliance frameworks are enforced • Implement cost governance through tagging, reserved instance planning, rightsizing, and continuous optimization • Provide direction on infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and automation pipelines (DevOps/GitHub Actions) • Ensure end-to-end observability and reliability • Partner with networking teams on private service connectivity, firewalls, DNS, routing, and bandwidth planning • Assist with architectural design reviews, cloud intake governance boards, and enterprise change management processes • Evaluate and introduce emerging cloud services, managed offerings, and operational improvements • Mentor other engineers and support knowledge transfer to increase cloud adoption maturity across the organization
Skills & Requirements • Required H.S. Diploma or GED • A bachelor's degree may substitute for 4 years of experience • Required 13 years information systems architecture, design, or maintenance experience
About Us
Since 1954, Texas Children's has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city's Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.
Texas Children's comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children's care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children's Health Plan, the nation's first HMO focused on children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children's Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children's Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.
To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.
Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
We're looking for a
Senior Enterprise Architect , someone who's ready to grow with our company. In this position you will have a major role in providing lead technical services to analyze, design, and deliver clinical/business solutions. Lends expertise to answer technical consulting questions, individually or as part of a project team. Serves as a senior subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures associated with enterprise applications plan. Prepares and participates in "deep dive" technical evaluation meetings, investigating processes to understand data and communications flow within Integrated Delivery System. Think you've got what it takes?
Job Duties & Responsibilities • Develop and maintain enterprise cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and service catalogs • Design secure, scalable, and highly available multi-cloud solutions across IaaS, PaaS, serverless, and container platforms • Drive application migration strategies including re-host, re-platform, modernization, and cloud-native deployment patterns • Work closely with cybersecurity to ensure Zero Trust principles, encryption, identity governance, and compliance frameworks are enforced • Implement cost governance through tagging, reserved instance planning, rightsizing, and continuous optimization • Provide direction on infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and automation pipelines (DevOps/GitHub Actions) • Ensure end-to-end observability and reliability • Partner with networking teams on private service connectivity, firewalls, DNS, routing, and bandwidth planning • Assist with architectural design reviews, cloud intake governance boards, and enterprise change management processes • Evaluate and introduce emerging cloud services, managed offerings, and operational improvements • Mentor other engineers and support knowledge transfer to increase cloud adoption maturity across the organization
Skills & Requirements • Required H.S. Diploma or GED • A bachelor's degree may substitute for 4 years of experience • Required 13 years information systems architecture, design, or maintenance experience
About Us
Since 1954, Texas Children's has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city's Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.
Texas Children's comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children's care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children's Health Plan, the nation's first HMO focused on children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children's Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children's Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.
To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.
Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.