VP Enterprise Architecture

GuideWell Source

VP leading Enterprise Architecture function at Florida Blue. Owning the architectural direction and ensuring alignment with long-term technology strategy.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaMicroservicesSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and own the enterprise-wide technology architecture vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, aligned with the company's business strategy and healthcare market evolution
Translate complex business and clinical goals into coherent, actionable architecture strategies that span applications, data, cloud infrastructure, integration, and security
Serve as a strategic advisor to the CIO and executive leadership on technology investments, platform decisions, and emerging technology trends relevant to the health plan and payer space
Monitor the external technology landscape including AI, cloud, interoperability standards, and regulatory shifts to proactively evolve the architecture strategy ahead of business need
Build, lead, and operate the Enterprise Architecture Office as a center of excellence that partners with product, engineering, and business teams to guide solution design and delivery.
Establish the Architecture Review Board (ARB), leading governance processes that evaluate proposed solutions against architectural standards before investment and implementation
Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture repository, including reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), technology standards, and approved patterns
Define and communicate technology lifecycle policies governing the adoption of new technologies, management of current platforms, and retirement of legacy systems
Develop and enforce architecture governance frameworks, principles, and guardrails that ensure consistency, reusability, and long-term sustainability across the technology portfolio
Establish a tiered governance model that balances speed-to-delivery for product teams with appropriate oversight for high-risk, high-complexity, or enterprise-wide architectural decisions
Partner with engineering leadership to embed architecture standards into the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring governance happens by design not as a bottleneck
Drive architecture compliance reviews for major programs, vendor solutions, and third-party integrations to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic direction
Own the enterprise cloud architecture strategy, guiding the organization's adoption of cloud-native patterns, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud models, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Define reference architectures for cloud infrastructure, platform services, containerization, and orchestration that enable engineering teams to build with speed and confidence
Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure cloud architecture decisions align with cost optimization, reliability, performance, and zero-trust security principles
Define the enterprise data architecture strategy, including data platform design, data mesh or data fabric adoption, interoperability standards, and master data management (MDM) frameworks.
Own integration architecture standards, including API strategy, event-driven architecture, messaging patterns, and real-time data streaming across the enterprise
Ensure data architecture supports regulatory requirements specific to the healthcare payer environment, including HIPAA, CMS interoperability mandates, HL7 FHIR, and EDI standards.
Collaborate with the VP of AI Engineering and Data Science leadership to ensure the data architecture enables scalable, governed AI and analytics workloads
Define application architecture standards, including microservices patterns, domain-driven design, API-first development, and platform modularity principles.
Guide teams in making sound build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions, evaluating vendor platforms and COTS solutions against enterprise architecture standards and strategic fit.
Establish standards for technical debt management, application rationalization, and modernization prioritization across the application portfolio.
Partner with the CISO and security engineering teams to embed zero-trust security principles and security-by-design patterns into all architectural frameworks and reference architectures.
Ensure security architecture considerations — including identity and access management, data encryption, network segmentation, and threat modeling — are embedded into solution design from inception
Build trusted relationships with business, clinical, and technology leaders across the organization, serving as a strategic bridge between business intent and technology execution.
Communicate architecture strategy, roadmaps, and governance decisions to executive, board-level, and operational audiences with clarity and conviction
Mentor and develop senior architects and technical leads across the organization, raising the overall architecture maturity and engineering craft
Represent the company in external architecture and technology forums, industry groups, and standards bodies relevant to health plan technology

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or additional related work experience
10+ years in technology, with 7+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles
5+ years in a senior technology leadership position
Healthcare Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the healthcare payer landscape, including health plan operations, claims systems, care management platforms, provider data, and regulatory environment
Architecture Leadership: Proven experience establishing or leading an enterprise architecture function, including governance frameworks, ARB processes, and technology standards programs
Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technology concepts, trade-offs, and strategic recommendations to C-suite and board-level audiences
Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization, building alignment across engineering, product, operations, and business functions
Strategic Thinking: Track record of translating long-range business strategy into concrete technology architecture decisions and investment priorities
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Deep expertise in TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture frameworks; experience adapting frameworks pragmatically to large, complex organizations
Cloud Platforms: Expert-level knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture; experience with multi-cloud strategies, FinOps principles, and cloud-native design patterns
Integration & API Architecture: Strong command of API management, event-driven architecture, ESB/iPaaS platforms, and microservices design.
Data Architecture: Experience with modern data platforms, including data lakehouses, streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink), data mesh principles, and vector databases
Healthcare Interoperability: Familiarity with HL7 FHIR, EDI (X12), HL7 v2, and CMS interoperability and prior authorization rules; experience with healthcare data exchange platforms a strong plus
Security Architecture: Solid understanding of zero-trust frameworks, identity and access management, and NIST cybersecurity standards.
AI & Emerging Technology: Working knowledge of AI/ML architecture patterns, LLM integration approaches, and responsible AI design principles sufficient to govern and guide AI solution architecture

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance;
Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs;
Leave programs to support personal circumstances;
Retirement Savings Plan including employer match;
Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days;
Additional voluntary benefits available;
A comprehensive wellness program

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architecturecloud architecturedata architectureAPI managementevent-driven architecturemicroservices designzero-trust securitydata mesharchitecture governancetechnical debt management

Soft Skills

executive communicationcross-functional influencestrategic thinkingmentoringrelationship buildingleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makinginfluencing

Certifications

TOGAFZachman