Director of IT Architecture

<h2>Job Overview:</h2><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Labcorp is currently seeking a Director of IT Architect for our Solutions Architecture practice.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">At Labcorp we are passionate about using technology to accelerate change and help realize the company’s mission, which is to "<em>improve health and improve lives by delivering world-class diagnostic solutions, bringing innovative medicines to patients faster, and using technology to improve the delivery of care.</em>" Labcorp continues to invest in people and technology to support the delivery of the company vision in which architecture plays a critical role.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Labcorp is looking for dynamic leaders to join our Architecture practice who will bring thought leader-level knowledge and a proven record of success directing efforts in executing various aspects of architecture such as business, enterprise & solutions design. This leader will have an opportunity to work on a truly enterprise team that engages with leaders across all divisions and will be directly involved in helping enable our CIO's vision of a more agile and business outcomes focused IT organization.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 27.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">Some Responsibilities Include</span></strong><span style="color: #666666;">:</span><em><span style="color: #595959;"> </span></em></span></p><ul><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Engaging with our business partners to lead/assist and design End to End solutions that integrate one or many of cloud, COTS, systems integration, AI, automation, IoT, API and other multi-vendor capabilities and become their trusted advisor and co-create and design innovative solutions </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Strong communication skills to engage with senior leaders at a business unit as well as functional & industry leaders within Labcorp </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders in order to drive investment planning, portfolio planning and execution.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Define the reference and implementation architectures for solutions and accelerators</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Collaborating with Platform, Solution, Application and Data Architects towards creating industry leading approaches, architecture design and solutions in a rapidly evolving development environment</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Be known as an influencer and a recognized thought leader, with proven track record translating business problems into patterns that combine one or many capabilities that solve the problem </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Acts as a trusted advisor for the business implementations to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Leading design thinking workshops and build and test new technologies</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Work across IT to drive capability-led investment planning decisions</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Stay current with industry technology trends and introduce best practices to our Company's IT</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Drive the notion of reusable architecture assets & standards such as current-state business/technology capability maps as well as future state planning roadmaps across all of IT. + Partner with architects and capability owners in the other business units to re-use the best available technologies and processes to power the business</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Apply risk-based decision making to complex problems and consult with relevant subject matter advisors as needed to inform the decision</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Prepare and deliver executive level briefings and communicate complex topics effectively to a diverse executive audience.</span></li></ul><h2>Education/Qualifications:</h2><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;">Bachelor's Degree or matching experience</span></p><h2>Experience:</h2><ul><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">12+ years prior experience in Enterprise, Business, Information, Systems & Application or Solution Architectures. </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">5+ years in a management role.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Demonstrated ability to partner with business stakeholders and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - able to effectively communicate complex concepts in simple ways.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with a variety of audiences and stakeholders including executive management, business leaders, IT peers, and colleagues worldwide. </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Strategic thinker, with demonstrated ability to work in a broad and top-down manner with a fair amount of ambiguity at the center.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Results-orientation with the proven ability and reputation for developing plans and implementing them successfully.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Demonstrated leadership in achieving shared objectives in a matrix organization, managing cross-divisional initiatives, and cross-functional teams in an extremely dynamic environment. </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Self-directed, self-motivated, driven leader who with little direction can fill in the gaps as to what is needed, and drive expected results. </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Demonstrated ability to envision the future and rally the organization / people towards a common goal.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Preferred – Lab systems \ pharma \ regulated systems.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">System integration methodologies \ design - ESB, API, REST, etc.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Performance \ Scale \ Availability design and troubleshooting.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Modern security technologies for authentication \ authorization and securing data.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture including microservices, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Current agile methodologies, specifically Scrum;</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap framework, AngularJS, Spring, Nodejs, jQuery.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Data architecture, data modeling and data management across relational, columnar and NoSQL technologies like SQL, Oracle, MongoDB.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Big data technologies like Hadoop (Hortwonworks, Cloudera) Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch and others.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Service design, creation and orchestration using ESBs like Mulesoft, Talend; TIBCO, MQ.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #666666;">Cloud based components implementation \ integrations \ migrations Azure, Google Cloud, AWS(preferred).</span></li></ul>