IT Solutions Architect

IT Solutions Architect

Job Category: Support Group
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Both Sites
Job Summary

Make a difference and advance your career with Chong Hua Hospital, the Philippines’ premier healthcare destination!

Chong Hua Hospital is looking to hire an experienced and highly motivated IT Solutions Architect who is  responsible for providing enterprise-wide technical leadership and architecture governance across the organization. The role focuses on defining standards, reviewing complex solutions, guiding strategic technology decisions, and ensuring that all technology initiatives align with the hospital’s business objectives, cybersecurity requirements, operational resiliency goals, and long-term digital transformation roadmap. 

 

The position serves as the highest-level technical authority for enterprise architecture and solution design without direct people management responsibility. 

 

The position works closely with business units, project teams, vendors, and IT Software development, IT Service Operations, and IT Security teams to ensure that all proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and long-term technology roadmaps. 

  • Provide enterprise-wide technical leadership and architecture guidance across all major IT initiatives.  
  • Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture standards, design principles, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.  
  • Review, validate, and approve high-level solution architectures for applications, infrastructure, cloud, network, cybersecurity, integration, and data platforms.  
  • Ensure that all technology solutions align with business goals, enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, regulatory compliance, and operational resiliency needs.  
  • Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex architecture, integration, infrastructure, and cloud-related concerns.  
  • Design and govern highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across multiple sites and business-critical environments.  
  • Lead architecture review sessions, technical governance meetings, CAB discussions, and solution validation activities.  
  • Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts such as system inventories, infrastructure diagrams, integration maps, application portfolios, and future-state roadmaps.  
  • Evaluate new and emerging technologies, industry trends, and vendor solutions to support innovation and business growth.  
  • Lead technical due diligence activities for major projects, procurements, vendor evaluations, RFPs, and contract reviews.  
  • Review and validate vendor proposals, technical specifications, infrastructure sizing, bills of materials, implementation plans, and solution recommendations.  
  • Ensure interoperability between systems through standards such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM, REST API, SOAP, JSON, XML, SFTP, and message queuing technologies.  
  • Define and maintain standards for cloud architecture, API governance, identity and access management, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and business continuity.  
  • Support risk assessments, audit findings, root cause analysis, and compliance initiatives from an enterprise architecture perspective.  
  • Collaborate with executives, department heads, project managers, vendors, and technical teams to ensure alignment of business and technical priorities.  
  • Mentor and guide Solution Architects, Engineers, Developers, and Project Teams on architecture best practices without direct supervisory responsibility.  
  • Provide technical oversight for mission-critical and high-risk projects involving Hospital Information Systems, PACS, ERP, cloud migration, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and enterprise integrations.  
  • Promote architecture standardization, technical governance, and best practices across the organization. 
  • Stay updated on emerging technologies, industry best practices, healthcare IT trends, and enterprise architecture frameworks. 
  • A graduate of bachelor’s degree and with master’s degree units in Engineering (Computer / Telecommunications), Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent  
  • At least 8-10 years of experience in IT, with at least 3-5 years in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, or systems integration roles. 
  • Strong experience in designing enterprise systems, cloud environments, integrations, and highly available infrastructures. 
  • Experience in healthcare IT systems, Hospital Information Systems, PACS, LIS, ERP, EMR, and other healthcare platforms is an advantage. 
  • Proficient in Linux, Containerization, DevOps, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes. 
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, identity management, encryption, access control, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. 
  • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, and COBIT. 
  • Strong understanding of integration technologies and standards such as HL7, FHIR, DICOM, REST API, SOAP, JSON, XML, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and middleware platforms. 
  • Excellent communication, analytical, documentation, problem-solving, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. 
  • Experience in vendor management, technical evaluation, project implementation, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement. 
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language for executives and non-technical stakeholders. 
  • Preferred Certifications are: TOGAF Certified, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, ITIL Foundation or ITIL Managing Professional, and COBIT Certification.

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