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Enterprise Architecture Manager

Internal Number: DOH8859

This role leads enterprise architecture for a large, complex public health organization. You will set the long term technology direction, establish architectural standards, and guide major technology investments to ensure they are secure, sustainable, and aligned with business priorities.

The work involves building and maintaining current and future state architecture, developing multi year roadmaps, reviewing technology proposals, and ensuring projects align with enterprise standards and security requirements. You will partner with executive leaders, program managers, and technical teams to translate business needs into scalable architectural solutions. The role also includes leading and mentoring a team of senior architects and strengthening governance processes that improve consistency and reduce duplication across systems.

Strong enterprise architecture directly supports reliable public health services. Decisions made in this role influence system stability, data integrity, regulatory compliance, and the effective use of public resources.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Lead the Enterprise Architecture program and set strategic direction across data, applications, infrastructure, and business processes
  • Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, roadmaps, and target state designs
  • Review and govern technology proposals and projects to ensure alignment with architectural standards and security requirements
  • Advise executive leadership on technology strategy, risk, and long term investment decisions
  • Guide and supervise senior architects, including workload planning and performance management
  • Support development of agency wide IT strategy and enterprise level governance practices
  • Represent the organization in cross agency technology discussions and policy development

Why You’ll Love This Role:

  • Direct influence on enterprise wide technology decisions and long term strategy.
  • Opportunity to lead and shape a mature, high performing architecture team.
  • Work that strengthens secure, reliable systems supporting essential public services.
  • A leadership role where thoughtful technology decisions translate into meaningful public value.

What You Bring:

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who can see the full technology landscape while still understanding the details. They are comfortable advising executive leadership, making independent decisions with broad impact, and guiding experienced technical professionals. They bring sound judgment, communicate complex ideas clearly, and approach governance as a tool for alignment rather than bureaucracy. This person values collaboration understands the responsibility that comes with public resources, and builds architecture that is practical, secure, and built to last.

  • Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, and at least Five (5) years of progressive professional experience in enterprise architecture, IT architecture, or technology strategy that included developing architectural standards, aligning IT investments to business strategy, and leading cross domain technology initiatives.
  • Option 2: Associate degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, and at least seven (7) years of progressive professional experience in enterprise architecture, IT architecture, or technology strategy that included developing architectural standards, aligning IT investments to business strategy, and leading cross domain technology initiatives.
  • Option 3: Nine (9) years of progressive professional experience in enterprise architecture, IT architecture, or technology strategy that included developing architectural standards, aligning IT investments to business strategy, and leading cross domain technology initiatives.

And the following required experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities:

  • Experience supervising professional level IT staff 
  • Experience leading or overseeing enterprise architecture or enterprise wide technology strategy in a complex organization
  • Experience designing complex, enterprise wide systems or solutions that span multiple platforms, business units, or technology domains
  • Experience developing and maintaining enterprise architecture deliverables such as current and future state architecture documentation, standards, and multi-year roadmaps
  • Experience reviewing technology projects or proposals to ensure they align with architectural standards, security requirements, and long term organizational strategy
  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and governance practices
  • Knowledge of information security fundamentals and regulatory or compliance considerations that affect system design and data management
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to executive leaders and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to make independent decisions within broad organizational guidelines that have wide ranging operational impact
  • Experience considering equity and accessibility in technology planning or system design to help ensure systems and services are usable and inclusive
About Washington State Department of Health
Our programs and services help prevent illness and injury, promote healthy places to live and work, provide information to help people make good health decisions and ensure our state is prepared for emergencies. To accomplish all of these, we collaborate with many partners every day. We help ensure a safer and healthier Washington by: Working to improve health through disease and injury prevention, immunization, and newborn screening Providing health and safety information, education and training so people can make healthy choices Promoting a health and wellness system where we live, learn, work, play and worship Addressing environmental health hazards associated with drinking water, food, air quality and pesticide exposure Protecting you and your family by licensing healthcare professionals, investigating disease outbreaks and preparing for emergencies
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Date Posted
03/02/2026
Job Reference
22087797
Organization
Washington State Department of Health
Location
Tumwater, WA
Category
Engineering
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