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Johns Hopkins University Enterprise Research IT Architect in Baltimore, Maryland
IT@JH Office of the CIO is seeking an Enterprise Research IT Architect who will be the senior-most technical expert in the research IT organization. The architect ensures the organization’s technical architecture aligns with the core principles of Johns Hopkins and incorporates value, security, performance, compliance, diversity and inclusion, and reproducibility and rigor.
This leader develops and manages the technical standards, patterns, and architectures for the University research IT group. Works to continuously improve the program and actively communicate it to the broader community. They also work closely across the Hopkins environment, including with researchers, research administration, compliance and information security, healthcare IT, all components of IT@JH, and school IT organizations, to establish a university-wide set of patterns and technology sets.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
Partners directly with all levels of the organization, including healthcare IT, research leadership, research administration, and investigator teams, and works closely with the community to understand requirements, design principles, and workflow. They document and evaluates information for patterns to inform strategy and roadmap.
Serves as the technical lead on projects and major initiatives, ensuring quality and excellence throughout their lifecycle in order to lead to successful outcomes. In many instances, they will be deployed to high priority University/Medicine initiatives as well as program grants and initiatives.
Serves on the University IT’s leadership team. In this role, they contribute to all aspects of the organization design and operations to help ensure it aligns with Hopkins strategy and objectives as well as ensuring its high performance.
Sets strategic plans, foster a collaborative culture, facilitate budget management, respond to high priority issues, and find and converge on opportunities.
Leads research into innovative technologies and engineering practices to determine opportunities and challenges. They work with their program and technical partners to make recommendations, and as appropriate, implement them.
Engages the Hopkins community as well as peer institutions in advancing the state of research IT principles and technologies.
Serves as a subject matter expert on information security and compliance regulations and translates the regulations into technical implementations.
Assists with conceptualizing solutions for proposals and facilitates implementations for research awards as required.
Participates in education opportunities, including class lectures and presentations, workshops, and community sessions.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree required.
Eight years of related work experience with computer systems and applications.
Additional experience may be substituted for education. Additional education may substitute for experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Fifteen years’ experience working with research and/or healthcare data.
Ten years’ experience developing research IT solutions for an organization.
Three years’ experience working with cloud-based data technologies.
Experience with architecting and implementing enterprise-class applications and services.
Experience with ensuring solution sets comply with federal, state, and local data security and privacy regulations.
Expert in enterprise-class research IT solutions, including high performance compute clusters, electronic data capture systems, biorepositories, as well in best practices for cloud solutions, dev/ops, and integration.
Expertise in leading teams and contributing as a team member in high profile and highly complex projects.
Strong relationship building and service-oriented perspective.
Experience translating innovative technologies into sustainable and secure solutions.
Experience working with AWS or Azure cloud environments.
Classified Title: Enterprise IT Architect
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Enterprise Research IT Architect
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PH
Starting Salary Range: $115,400 - $202,000 Annually (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Mon-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Mount Washington Campus
Department name: IT@JH Office of the Deputy CIO
Personnel area: University Administration
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. The university promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.