Director, Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery

Hourly Pay Range:

$74.78 - $115.91 - The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate's expertise and years of experience, among other factors.

Position Highlights:

• Position: Director, Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery
• Location: Skokie, IL or Warrenville, IL or Arlington Heights, IL
• Full Time
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
• Hybrid Position
• Required Travel: local travel to other corporate sites will be required as needed.

Job Summary:

As the Director of Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery at Endeavor Health, you will lead the Enterprise Architecture team in making strategic technology investment decisions, aligning with clinical and business objectives to optimize cost efficiency and mitigate risks. You will oversee the development, testing, optimization, maintenance, and communication of the enterprise-wide Disaster Recovery Program. You will identify opportunities to support critical business recovery requirements, foster strong relationships with key stakeholders to align technology solutions with organizational goals, and promote the consistent use of tools, techniques, workflows, and platforms to drive operational excellence.  Collaborates with the IT business unit and Cyber security teams to ensure business continuity plans are seamlessly aligned with architecture requirements. Develops and maintains comprehensive system recovery testing protocols and detailed playbooks tailored to diverse scenarios

To be successful in this role, you will be expected to remain updated on the latest solutions and technologies and advocate for the adoption of industry best practices.

What you will do:

• Drives end-to-end activities for the assigned solutions portfolio and developing and leading teams for high performance outcomes.
• Provides direction for solution implementation, testing, support, and deployment, technical and workflow guidance.
• Establishes relationships with domain leaders to understand strategic business needs and user needs; identifies business requirements to guide specifications for ease of business operations.
• Lead or participate in governance committees to collaborate with key stakeholders about priority and workload.
• Develops strong partnerships with other fellow leaders to identify synergies and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborates with vendors to ensure systems and solutions are achieving or exceeding the needs of Endeavor Health.
• Sets direction for IT operations through oversight of activities such as: Capital and Operating budgets, policy and procedure development and maintenance, talent management and acquisition, sustaining relationships with operational stakeholders, governance activities, and other duties as assigned.
• Remains updated on latest technologies available in the market and promotes the implementation of relevant technologies. Participates in industry related organizations, such as HIMSS, CHIME, Epic UGM / XGM, VMWare World, etc.
• Collaborate and actively participate across functional components led by other leaders, ensuring overlaps and touch points are seamless, effective, efficient and achieve measurable outcomes.
• Manage the execution and completion of IT Disaster Recovery test activities including collaborating with business continuity management (BCM), business unit management, external business partners, and key IT staff members to plan, direct, control, and maintain effective DR plan testing.
• Coordinates data center recovery and serve as an IT liaison to the enterprise Business Continuity Management (BCM) team, ensuring that IT technologies and processes support all key availability and recovery requirements.
• Coordinates regular testing of Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Reduces costs and improves resource allocation by optimizing the IT infrastructure and eliminating redundancies.
•  Identifies and integrates new technologies to drive business growth and enables the organization to respond quickly to market changes.
• Develops roadmaps for the future state of technology which aligns the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
• Stays current with IT platform technologies, architectures, best practices and methodologies.

What you will need:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in technology, computer science, or a related field OR equivalent work experience.
• Certifications: Disaster Recovery Certification (EDRP, DRCE or DRCS), TOGAF, ITIL, Foundations or equivalent experience.
• Experience:
• Five (5) or more years of experience in managing Enterprise Architecture and Disaster Recovery processes, applications, or systems in a healthcare setting or relevant related industries.
• Three (3) or more years of leadership experience as defined as essential to the role.
• Unique or Preferred Skills:
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong technical skills.
• Strong understanding of information processing fundamentals and best practices.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects with efficiency.
• Significant domain knowledge and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to identify, plan and execute strategic initiatives.
• Strong personal and ethical accountability.
• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking for problem solving / issue resolution.
• A lean towards curiosity, out of the box thinking and innovative.
• Focus on people and active engagement in recruitment and retention.

Benefits (For full time or part time positions):

• Eligibility for our Annual Incentive Plan, which offers the potential to earn a certain percentage amount of your base salary based on organizational performance.
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
• Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
• Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free Parking
• Wellness Program Savings Plan
• Health Savings Account Options
• Retirement Options with Company Match
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Community Involvement Opportunities

Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals – Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) – all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org.  

When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential.

Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to “help everyone in our communities be their best”. 

Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.

EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.