National Real Estate Programs Solutions Architect

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.

As our Real Estate Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing and optimizing innovative technology solutions that address complex challenges within our real estate operations.

Every day you will collaborate with real estate business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors to understand requirements, evaluate existing systems, and architect scalable, secure, and integrated solutions. You will be expected to create technical roadmaps, define system specifications, oversee implementation phases, and ensure that our real estate technology investments align with strategic business objectives.

To be successful in this role, you must possess a deep understanding of real estate business processes and technology, strong architectural design skills, expertise in enterprise software solutions (e.g., Yardi, MRI, Salesforce), and proven experience in translating business needs into effective technical solutions.

• Act as the CommonSpirit Technology Services champion with internal and external stakeholders regarding security, compliance, feature and product roadmaps, remediation, and service level agreements.
• Mentor, and coach Solution Architects I to build their skills and readiness in technology, portfolio, and platform responsibilities.
• Lead focused proof-of-concept activities for technology assessments, communicate findings, develop portfolio roadmaps, investment prioritization, and successful implementation and adoption.
• Be known as the subject matter expert for their portfolios/platforms and actively collaborate with other Solution Architects on IT standards, innovation and integration opportunities to enable new value chains and business efficiencies.
• Act as the IT standards owner for several technology, platform, or portfolio domains and facilitate a collaborative process to establish, gain consensus, and communicate standards.
• Drive adherence to IT strategy and IT standards in design processes for 3rd party services, products acquired, internal services, integrated hosted solutions, and hardware/software vendors.

5-8 years of experience in technology solutions engineering, technical infrastructure, or technical operations
1-3 years of experience in the healthcare or medical industry

Bachelors Degree 

Subject matter expertise in multiple technology areas, such as mobile solutions, open source systems, SOA, cloud computing, security and identity management, data warehousing and analytics, voice and data network architectures, storage technologies, and SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS relationships

Strong time management and multi-tasking skills

Career and technical progression from hand-on support, development, design, and architecture to portfolio-level responsibilities including standards, strategy, product, and capability roadmaps

Demonstrated leadership driving technology solutions from design through implementation thru a flexible staffing model which leverages cross-functional teams comprised of employees, vendors, outsource partners, and contractors across multiple locations

Proven ability to drive complex technical solutions which may include both legacy and converging technology use at a portfolio or enterprise level through education and partnership with stakeholders

Proven ability to direct technical evaluations of IT issues and products

Awareness and understanding of emerging trends and technologies in IT and Healthcare

Proven ability thru experience to diagnose complex technical problems in a multi-layered enterprise solution environment encompassing both vendor and custom built solutions

Deep knowledge of information, software and technology infrastructure management principles, methods, standards, and techniques

Communication and presentation skills appropriate for executive and ‘C’ level interaction

Relentless pursuit of service excellence at both project and operational levels

Ability to build and maintain successful relationships with operational/production leadership as well as strategic planners