Principal Healthcare Architect

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

**Role Summary / Purpose**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- ** Connect Strategy to Execution**: Facilitate business and architectural alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
- ** Lead technical risk retirement initiatives** and ensure horizontal platform programs are in alignment with architectural vision. Make sure thinnest viable platform increments are always ready for stream aligned teams to integrate.
- ** Lead a collaborative community of architects** and work with a strategic committee to guide the digital transformation and resolve any conflicts between delivery and enterprise business outcomes.
- ** Collaborate with cross-functional teams**: Explain and promote data mesh, platform elements and the significance of the enterprise architecture to business stakeholders and data domain teams.
- ** Coach and mentor other architects**: Share expertise and guide junior architects, preparing them for future leadership roles and instill architectural thinking with product owners/managers and business stakeholders.
- ** Facilitate data domain onboarding**:Guide data domains through the process of setting up data products and integrating into the mesh.
- ** Lead the design and implementation of well architected**, secure, scalable, and compliant cloud solutions aligned with industry best practices and healthcare standards (HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR)
- ** Spearhead Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)** in integrating AWS Well-Architected Framework and Data Mesh principles by facilitating architectural reviews, guiding strategy, fostering cultural change, and building expertise for secure, scalable, and decentralized cloud solutions.

**Essential Qualifications**:

- ** Education**: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (Master's degree preferred).
- ** Experience**:Overall 20+ Years of experience with at least 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture and design and at least five years previous experience as an enterprise and/or cloud solutions architect.
- ** Certifications**: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (or higher). Additional AWS certifications (e.g., Security, DevOps) a plus.
- ** Technical and Domain Expertise**:

- Experience with designing and deploying secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions for healthcare workloads.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Expert level understanding of data strategies & data architectures (e.g., Data Mesh and Data Fabric), modern software engineering best practices and the capabilities of cloud-based platforms (specifically AWS).
- Expert hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Python, SQL, Data Warehouses (Redshift, etc.), data modeling, and data engineering practices.

**Leadership Skills**:

- Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
- Effective and inclusive facilitator with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation that can influence stakeholders and build consensus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with a passion for improving patient care and clinical research.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision making and assist in solving engineering problems.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tools.

**Desired Qualifications**:

- Strong understanding of clinical data management, EHR systems, and data interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR).
- Proven track record of successfully launching and managing data products in the healthcare or life sciences industry.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to analyze market trends, user needs, and business requirements to drive product innovation.
- Experience with design thinking principles and customer experience design.
- A high degree of empathy, highly curious and able to deal with uncertainty.
- Databricks Certifications or AWS Certified Data Architect.
- Knowledge of relevant AI/ML algorithms and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLFlow, LLMs, RAG, etc.).

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust, lead with transparency, deliver with focus and drive ownership - always with unyielding integrity.

**Inclusion and Diversity**

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