IT@JH Office of the Deputy CIO is seeking an IT Enterprise Architect who will shape the future of how Johns Hopkins connects and empowers its global community through cutting-edge enterprise portal solutions. This pivotal role architect's transformative digital experiences for faculty, staff, students, and administrators across the Johns Hopkins ecosystem. The position sits at the forefront of innovation, integrating emerging AI/ML technologies, designing next generation microservices architectures, and creating seamless, intelligent user experiences that impact thousands of users worldwide.

This high-visibility role involves working on mission-critical initiatives where architectural decisions directly influence how one of the world's leading research universities operates and innovates. The Enterprise IT Architect has the autonomy to drive technical strategy, evaluate and implement breakthrough technologies, and solve complex challenges that push the boundaries of what's possible in enterprise portal architecture. Working alongside brilliant minds across IT leadership, this position mentors talented teams, establishes architectural excellence, and builds scalable solutions that will serve as the foundation for Johns Hopkins' digital transformation for years to come. The role offers the perfect blend of technical challenge, strategic impact, and meaningful purpose for those passionate about creating elegant, powerful architectures that make a real difference in education and research.

Job Scope/Complexity

The Enterprise IT Architect typically involves applications and integration of a broad variety of products, technologies and services, and various architectural styles and domains Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. This role is involved in strategic technology planning and oversees solution architecture using and/or defining enterprise protocols in the design, implementation, performance, and documentation of technologies and systems. Ensures that appropriate technologies and protocols are applied when analyzing and translating business requirements into functional/technical specifications and designs. Using functional specifications and designs, produces high level framework used by more junior IT staff and partitions large systems into components that enable parallel solution development by multiple teams. The scope of a technology specialization is described in the supplemental, however all IT Architects have a centralized and enterprise breadth. Work complexity is extremely high, spanning the entirety of a specialty for the Johns Hopkins enterprise. Enterprise IT Architects are the technical experts for their domain and comprehensively understand the Hopkins specifics of the technical implementation.

Where this position is a technology leader for the Enterprise, this position will not have direct reports and performance reviews are not in scope for this role. However, the Enterprise IT Architect will provide feedback for technical staff to their management on performance reviews. The Enterprise IT Architect serves as a senior technical leader and mentor across the TAG and organization, providing architectural guidance and technical direction to development teams, solution architects, and technical staff. The role encompasses conducting architectural reviews, establishing technical standards, and delivering expert consultation on complex technical decisions. While not maintaining formal supervisory duties, this position significantly influences technical direction and provides valuable feedback to management regarding team members' technical performance and architectural adherence. The architect fosters technical excellence and knowledge sharing across multiple teams through collaborative leadership and strategic guidance.

The scale is enterprise. All Johns Hopkins Medicine and/or all Johns Hopkins University affiliates, including international locales.

• Users: 100,000+
• Systems: 100,000+
• Complexity is at the highest.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy/Leadership

• Collaborate with, and frequently lead, other technical experts, architects and subject matter experts to contribute technology elements for the enterprise.
• Develop guiding principles, standards, and best practices consumed by execution teams.
• Responsible for IT vision, strategy, technology innovations, and architecture services of enterprise infrastructure and applications; design, document and implement a strategic roadmap for assigned technologies.
• Address highly complex problems by meeting with clients to observe and understand current processes and the issues related to those processes. Provide written documentation of findings to share with the client and other IT colleagues.
• Tracks a broad range of emerging technologies to:
• Determine their maturity and applicability to the enterprise
• Assess the relative impact to IT strategy and interprets meaning to senior IT leadership team
• Lead and manage strategic activities, including adoption of enterprise products and continuous integration strategies

Design, Development & Deployment

• Develop, manage and maintain standards, partner in the development, management, establishment, and enforcement of technical standards.
• Support the translation of business and technical objectives into solution architecture requirements, application of multiple technical solutions to business problems while leveraging enterprise solutions.
• Provide support and enforcement of compliance with enterprise support and identify opportunities to fully leverage offerings to the benefit of the enterprise.
• Develop detailed tasks and project plans by analyzing project scope and milestones for highly complex projects in order to ensure product is delivered in a timely fashion according to lifecycle standards.
• Provide experienced leadership for strategic planning in designing and developing comprehensive, innovative and integrated solutions. Oversee and mentor junior staff by reviewing tasks and milestones for quality standards and provide guidance in system/application design and development.
• Integrates multiple cross functional processes and disciplines to meet business and technical requirements by bringing perspective from all architecture domains (process, system, application information, data, and security).

Implementation & Maintenance

• Oversee changes by adhering to the change management policies and procedures for any given project to communicate to all parties the nature, significance, and risk factors of the solution.
• Monitor changes and resolve highly complex problems requiring the highest level of technical expertise by responding as they occur, by reviewing all processing and output of the newly implemented solution, and by proactively ensuring the solution works successfully to satisfy the customer requirements and to provide a smooth transition to the new solution.
• Strong written and oral communication skills to effectively lead change and communicate with business and IT staff.
• The ability to embrace change, adapt to the unexpected, and focus energies, people, and solutions on practical and positive results.
• Perform other related duties as requested.

• Bachelor?s Degree.
• Eight years of related work experience with computer systems and applications.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond HS Diploma/Graduation Equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Demonstrated expertise architecting large-scale enterprise portal solutions serving 50K users across multiple geographic locations.
• Experience with AI/ML architectural patterns including LLM integration, vector databases, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Proven ability designing event-driven architectures and real-time data streaming solutions for complex portal environments.
• Deep knowledge of advanced API strategies including API mesh, service mesh architectures, and comprehensive API lifecycle management.
• Extensive background in cloud-native architectures, containerization strategies (Kubernetes), and multi-cloud deployment patterns.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise knowledge graph implementations and semantic web technologies.
• Strong foundation in zero-trust security architectures and advanced authentication/authorization patterns.
• Comprehensive understanding of composable architecture patterns, including packaged business capabilities (PBCs) and headless CMS architectures.
• Expertise implementing data mesh and data fabric architectural patterns for distributed data management.
• Proven track record with observability architectures including distributed tracing, metrics aggregation, and intelligent monitoring.
• Significant experience with digital experience platforms (DXP) and omnichannel architecture strategies.

Classified Title: Enterprise IT Architect 
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PH  
Starting Salary Range: $116,600 - $204,000 Annually (Commensurate w/exp,) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Mon-Fr, 8:30am-5pm 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Remote 
Department name: IT@JH Office of the Deputy CIO   
Personnel area: University Administration 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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