About the Role
Serve as the single point of contact for executive leadership on all architecture matters. Own enterprise-wide architectural standards, manage technology risk, and ensure systems, platforms, and integrations align with business goals and regulatory requirements. This is a strategic role requiring technical authority and business communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Define, own, and enforce enterprise architecture standards and governance across the organization
- Act as the primary architecture liaison to C-suite and executive stakeholders
- Translate complex technical strategies and risks into clear, business-friendly language
- Develop and maintain the enterprise technology roadmap
- Ensure integration and standardization across platforms, systems, and cloud environments
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies aligned with business and innovation goals
- Own and manage architectural risk across the enterprise
- Lead architecture reviews and approve key design decisions
- Support compliance with regulatory and security requirements including HIPAA
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams — DevOps, Data, Engineering, Security — to guide architecture decisions
- Mentor solution architects and technical leads
- Foster a culture of architectural innovation and best practices
Requirements
- Proven experience in enterprise architecture governance and standards enforcement
- Strong background in strategic IT planning and technology roadmapping
- Deep knowledge of cloud architecture across AWS and Azure
- Experience with application architecture, data architecture, and systems integration
- Strong understanding of microservices, API design, and modern distributed systems
- Solid grasp of DevOps and Agile methodologies
- Experience managing technology risk and mitigation at an enterprise level
- Ability to drive regulatory and security compliance — especially HIPAA
- Demonstrated ability to align IT strategy with business goals and digital transformation objectives
- Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills
- Experience mentoring and leading technical teams
- US citizenship is required
Skills
- Enterprise architecture governance
- Standards enforcement
- Strategic IT planning
- Technology roadmapping
- Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure)
- Application architecture
- Data architecture
- Systems integration
- Microservices
- API design
- Distributed systems
- DevOps
- Agile methodologies
- Technology risk management
- Regulatory compliance (HIPAA)
- Security compliance
- Business goal alignment
- Digital transformation
- Executive stakeholder management
- Team mentoring
- Healthcare industry experience (Nice to Have)
- Health-tech industry experience (Nice to Have)
- Digital transformation leadership at scale (Nice to Have)
- Enterprise integration platforms (Nice to Have)
- Interoperability standards (Nice to Have)
Location
- US-based
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- 40h/week
- Contract
- B2B arrangement
Experience Level
- Experienced
- Seasoned architect
About the Company
- IT Labs is an international software tech company founded in 2005, specializing in purpose and process-driven teams for high-performance, innovation, transformation, and efficiency.
- HQ is in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with teams globally.
- Values: Integrity, Excellence, Proactivity, Innovation, and People.
