Principal Enterprise Business Architect Lead

The Principal Enterprise Business Architect Lead plays a critical leadership role in shaping the future of care delivery, operations, and innovation across Novant Health. This role translates enterprise strategy into scalable, patient-centered business architecture capabilities that align with Novant Health’s system-wide vision and long-term priorities.

As the senior leader for enterprise business architecture, the Lead advances the discipline to enable transformation, improve capability maturity, and ensure strategic investment alignment across the organization. Serving as a trusted partner to IT, business, and clinical leaders, this role guides enterprise-level decision making through capability modeling, strategic planning, and high-reliability healthcare system design.

Schedule: 8:00AM – 5:00PM (On call support required, as needed).

Location: Remote (Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; or Georgia only)

Department: IT Architecture Innovation and Growth

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the translation of enterprise strategic goals into scalable, patient-centered business architecture capabilities spanning care delivery, operations, and innovation.
• Advance the enterprise business architecture discipline by defining standards, frameworks, and governance that drive transformation and organizational maturity.
• Partner closely with IT, business, and clinical leadership to enable system-wide alignment and informed decision making.
• Guide enterprise capability modeling, planning, and roadmapping to identify gaps, prioritize initiatives, and support long-term transformation.
• Enable strategic investment alignment by connecting business architecture insights to portfolio planning and funding decisions.
• Support the design and evolution of high-reliability healthcare systems, ensuring organizational resilience, quality, safety, and scalability.
• Influence enterprise operating models to support innovation, efficiency, and patient-centered care delivery.
• Act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, providing architecture-driven insights that inform enterprise priorities and outcomes.

• Education: 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, required. Degree in Business Administration, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field. Graduate Degree, preferred. MBA or a related field. 
• Experience:
  • Minimum of 10+ years’ of progressive experience in enterprise business architecture, strategy, or transformation in healthcare or complex regulated industries, required.
  • Minimum of five years of progressive experience in a management or leadership capacity, required.
• Licensure/Certification:
  • Certified Business Architect (CBA), TOGAF, SAFe or similar, strongly preferred.
• Additional Skills (required):
  • Leads, establishes and matures standards, methods, and templates for Business Architecture deliverables across the Novant enterprise. Leads, defines and delivers key strategic artifacts such as: Business Capability Models, Value Stream Maps. Business Motivation Models, Operating Model Blueprints, Stakeholder Information Mapping, Capability, Maturity Assessment and Heat Maps.
  • Apply and adapt formal frameworks and modeling standards, including:
    • BIZBOK for capability-based planning, value mapping, and business motivation modeling,
    • TOGAF or Gartner EA Framework for enterprise architecture alignment and governance.
    • BPMN 2.0 for process modeling and workflow harmonization.
  • Manages the Application Rationalization and Portfolio Management of enterprise business applications outcomes and deliverables for senior management.
  • Owns the discovery, planning, business case development and strategic alignment of enterprise outcomes.
• Additional Skills (preferred):
  • Strategic Leadership & Influence: Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders to drive alignment between business strategy, technology investments, and enterprise capability development.
  • Innovation & Emerging Technology Awareness: Strong understanding of emerging technologies (e.g., AI, cloud, interoperability platforms) and how they enable next-generation enterprise capabilities.
  • Tool Proficiency: Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture and modeling tools such as Lean IX, Bizzdesign, or Signavio to visualize and manage capability maps and dependencies.