This is a hybrid position and must be located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus for occasional on-site expectations based on business needs.
The Enterprise Architecture organization is seeking a Distinguished Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise-wide architecture leadership for strategic initiatives and complex technology challenges. This role serves as a trusted advisor to Architecture leadership and senior executives and is responsible for helping define enterprise strategy, target-state direction, standards, technical doctrine, and multi-year direction within a strategic technology specialty. The Distinguished Enterprise Architect provides expertise on decisions and challenges with enterprise-wide impact and helps guide technology choices that have long-term organizational implications.
The Distinguished Enterprise Architect establishes specialty strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technical direction while helping resolve complex challenges that span organizational and technology boundaries. Through strategic advisory work, technology evaluation, architecture governance, and collaboration with executive leadership, this role helps shape long-term enterprise technology direction. The Distinguished Enterprise Architect also mentors architects and senior technical leaders, contributes to architecture excellence across the organization, and represents Mayo Clinic in strategic engagements with vendors, research collaborators, standards organizations, and professional communities.
The Distinguished Enterprise Architect is an individual contributor appointed for exceptional and recognized expertise in a named strategic technology or architecture specialty. The role sets enterprise specialty strategy, technical doctrine, target-state direction, standards, and precedent; solves unprecedented or systemic problems; and advises Architecture leadership and senior executives on decisions with enterprise-wide and multi-year consequences. Distinguished is a cross-cutting technical-authority overlay rather than routine ownership of a portfolio, platform operating backlog, or governance service.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or other relevant degrees and 15 years of relevant technology experience required. Master's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or other relevant degree and demonstrated architecture or technical leadership as a Principal, Chief, Distinguished, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority preferred.
TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner or TOGAF 9 Certified certification is required within 12 months of employment. TOGAF EA Leader credential is preferred.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience with the following:
Authorization to work and remain in the United States, without necessity for Mayo Clinic sponsorships now, or in the future (for example, be a U.S. Citizen, national, or permanent resident, refugee, or asylee). Mayo Clinic does not participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.
Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic has expanded and changed in many ways, but our values remain true to the vision of our founders. Our primary value – The needs of the patient come first – guides our plans and decisions as we create the future of health care. Join us and you'll find a culture of teamwork, professionalism and mutual respect, and most importantly, a life-changing career.
Mayo Clinic was founded in Rochester, Minnesota by brothers Dr. William James Mayo and Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. More than 100 years later, their vision continues to evolve around a single guiding value: "The needs of the patient come first." Today we are the largest integrated, not for-profit medical group practice in the world.
We are recognized for high-quality patient care more than any other academic medical center in the nation. These endorsements are very gratifying, but also humbling. They remind us of the tradition that has been entrusted to each one of us, and the legacy of excellence that we uphold every day.
