Enterprise Research IT Architect

IT@JH Research IT Solutions is seeking an Enterprise Research IT Architect who will be the senior-most technical expert in the research IT organization. The architect ensures the organization's technical architecture aligns with the core principles of Johns Hopkins and incorporates value, security, performance, compliance, diversity and inclusion, and reproducibility and rigor.

This leader develops and manages the technical standards, patterns, and architectures for the University research IT group. Works to continuously improve the program and actively communicate it to the broader community. They also work closely across the Hopkins environment, including with researchers, research administration, compliance and information security, healthcare IT, all components of IT@JH, and school IT organizations, to establish a university-wide set of patterns and technology sets.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Partners directly with all levels of the organization, including healthcare IT, research leadership, research administration, and investigator teams, and works closely with the community to understand requirements, design principles, and workflow. They document and evaluates information for patterns to inform strategy and roadmap.
• Serves as the technical lead on projects and major initiatives, ensuring quality and excellence throughout their lifecycle in order to lead to successful outcomes. In many instances, they will be deployed to high priority University/Medicine initiatives as well as program grants and initiatives.
• Serves on the University IT's leadership team. In this role, they contribute to all aspects of the organization design and operations to help ensure it aligns with Hopkins strategy and objectives as well as ensuring its high performance.
• Sets strategic plans, foster a collaborative culture, facilitate budget management, respond to high priority issues, and find and converge on opportunities.
• Leads research into innovative technologies and engineering practices to determine opportunities and challenges. They work with their program and technical partners to make recommendations, and as appropriate, implement them.
• Engages the Hopkins community as well as peer institutions in advancing the state of research IT principles and technologies.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on information security and compliance regulations and translates the regulations into technical implementations.
• Assists with conceptualizing solutions for proposals and facilitates implementations for research awards as required.
• Participates in education opportunities, including class lectures and presentations, workshops, and community sessions.

Specific Devices, Software, Projects

Research IT overall technical architecture

• The architect leads the development of the Hopkins Research IT architecture and its associated components.
• This involves multiple best-in-class enterprise applications and associated components.
• The architect works with key technologists within the organization to incorporate their patterns and components in the architecture as appropriate.

Research IT applications and services

• The architect leads the technical design and implementation of the suite of supported IT services and applications.
• These include discovery, laboratory, electronic data capture, training grants, research portal, and cloud-based research platforms.

IT standards

• Champions and implements IT standards for research IT across the enterprise to enable greater consistency and interoperability.
• Integration patterns: develops and operationalizes best practices for integrating multiple information technology systems together to enable data integrity, data timeliness, and data quality.

Compliance

• Facilitates the federal, state, local, and international compliance regulations for research IT solutions, based on the sponsor and institution's requirements.

Artificial Intelligence

• Evaluates and recommends opportunities to leverage AI for research IT implementations.
• Also looks at technical patterns and opportunities to enable the use of AI in a responsible and ethnical manner.

Modernizing research IT platforms

• Serves as a technical expert to help investigators and their teams modernize their IT solutions, where appropriate, to ensure a greater level of security, minimize risk to the institution, and facilitate greater opportunities for analysis and research.

Community Engagement

• Facilitates the engagement of these communities of practices around the use of research IT within the broader Johns Hopkins research community.

Education presentations/workshops

• Designs and conducts workshops and presentations to undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses.

Scale/size of Area, Project and/or System Supported

The complexity in this position includes,

Volume and diversity of research within the institution

• As one of the top research institutions in the world, this position will have to work with a large portfolio of opportunities for design and implementation of solutions.

Compliance

• Research, particularly research sponsored by federal agencies, have complex regulations that information systems must follow.
• These include traditional ones, such as HIPAA, but also new cybersecurity ones, such as the national security presidential memoranda 33.

Heterogeneity of research community

• Traditionally, research teams tend to operate as an autonomous unit so entrusting their research and associated research resources to a central IT organization can be difficult.
• This requires a certain strong soft skills

Diversity of research solutions

• Most research teams follow a best of breed' approach where they select software or services that have been tailored for their particular research.
• In these instances, it forces a greater number of integrations to create a unified user experience and quality data.

Political nuances

• Research crosses multiple organizations, including the university and health system, with their differences in culture and approach.
• This position will have to navigate these differences constantly and ensure all parties are heard and strive to reach solutions that different stakeholders will agree to.

Many Technical Standards

• A large number of technical standards to determine which is the best one to go with.
• Even after picking a standard, because of the heterogeneity of the research enterprise, it is difficult to get the organization to agree to just one. Assuming that they want to even adopt a single or multiple standards.

Broad yet deep knowledge base

• The technical architect needs to understand healthcare, research, and programmatic data in order to develop patterns and operate effectively. It is often very difficult to find individuals with this breadth of knowledge.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of common IT infrastructure components.

• Knowledge of applicable methodologies, including enterprise architecture.

• Ability to develop solution architecture designs.

• Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills.

• Ability to lead technical and business colleagues via influence and without authority.

• Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions.

• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.

• Results oriented with ability to produce products that deliver organizational benefit

• Self-starter with the ability to appropriately prioritize and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment.

• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to lay audiences. Experience working with senior IT and institutional leadership.

• Experienced in assessing a broad range of information solutions and products.

• Strategic business acumen and understanding of organization strategy, with an ability to design information systems to fulfill that strategy.

• Ability to prioritize conflicting demands.

• Ability to work on multiple priorities effectively.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Supervise a group of application developers and/or architects.

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Eight years of related work experience with computer systems and applications.
• Additional experience may be substituted for education. Additional education may substitute for experience.

• Fifteen years' experience working with research and/or healthcare data.
• Ten years' experience developing research IT solutions for an organization.
• Three years' experience working with cloud-based data technologies.
• Experience with architecting and implementing enterprise-class solutions and services.
• Experience with ensuring solution sets comply with federal, state, and local data security and privacy regulations.
• Expert in enterprise-class research IT solutions, including high performance compute clusters, electronic data capture systems, biorepositories, as well in best practices for cloud solutions, dev/ops, and integration.
• Expertise in leading teams and contributing as a team member in high profile and highly complex projects.
• Strong relationship building and service-oriented perspective.
• Experience translating innovative technologies into sustainable and secure solutions.
• Experience working with AWS or Azure cloud environments.

Classified Title: Enterprise IT Architect
Job Posting Title (Working Title):Enterprise Research IT Architect
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PH
Starting Salary Range: $116,600 - $204,000 Annually (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:00pm
Exempt Status:Exempt
Location:Mount Washington Campus
Department name: IT@JH Research IT Solutions
Personnel area: University Administration