Director, Solution Architecture

Clinisys is a global provider of intelligent diagnostic informatics solutions and expertise designed to redefine the modern laboratory, across healthcare, life sciences, and public health. Millions of diagnostic results and data insights are generated every day using Clinisys’ platform and cloud-based solutions in over 3,000 laboratories across 34 countries. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, and Woking, England, Clinisys’ mission is to enhance the effectiveness of diagnostic workflows in any laboratory or testing environment and keep citizens and communities healthier and safer.

Purpose

The Director, Solution Architecture is responsible setting the vision and providing technical leadership and guidance to senior and associate team members that provide solution architecture and design of Clinisys’ product solutions. In this role, the Director will need to leverage a deep technical background in software architecture and design and work with the team members to guide them in establishing stable solutions that are easily supportable and highly available for our clients. The Director will need to work closely with product development and client support teams to understand operational and technical challenges presented by the current solution architecture and define and coordinate efforts to provide both internal and external solutions to these challenges.

For assigned programs, the responsibilities include being 100% responsible for the oversight of the program and will coordinate all Clinisys team resources. Responsible for all team communications. Program communication ensures that all members of the laboratory and Clinisys project teams remain informed and keeps the project on target from start to finish. Frequent communication identifies risks, resolves obstacles, and keeps critical paths in the spotlight. The time required for completing the implementation depends in some part on key strategic decisions made within the laboratory. To mitigate this risk, the Director meets with the laboratory staff to determine jointly how best to utilize the available laboratory resources.

Essential Functions

• Establishes strategic vision and manages an execution plan for a go-to market strategy for leveraging Cloud and virtualization platforms for Clinisys solutions. Creates and manages operating and capital budgets
• Leads activities and team members that perform key tasks related to architecting and designing of stable, secure, and highly available solution architecture for Clinisys’s application, focusing on repeatable processes and using automation to meet key performance indicators and service levels
• Responsible for the standardization and architecture for the maintenance, monitoring, support of key solutions and systems to support our hosted clients and internal systems
• Facilitates the delivery of solution focused configuration documents for Clinisys’s applications, which provide guidance on technical requirements, reference architectures, and scalability models
• Manage customer expectations and timelines.
• Collaborates with others to qualify third party products, engages in vendor management, and provides technology roadmap for support of these solutions, including the negotiation favorable pricing from vendors
• Reporting customer experiences and product requests.
• Establishing and maintaining program communication and success
• Collaborates with senior management to support strategic corporate initiatives and contributes to departmental goals
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned
  
  

Skills Needed To Be Successful

• Strong leadership skills
• Understanding of the Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI) with knowledge of all layers and how they work together to deliver a solution
• Experience providing solutions that use industry standard database technologies, operating platforms, and development frameworks
• Good technical acumen and critical thinking skills necessary to build and challenge experienced teams
• Validated ability to work with diverse stakeholders, handle opposing agendas and priorities, and translate complex information across internal and external audiences
  
  

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in broad IT experience to include implementation, management and maintenance of IT or software architecture and solutions
• Experience in leading high-performing teams
  
  

Preferred Experience & Education

• Master’s Degree in Information Systems
  
  

This is an individual contributor role with strategic and technical leadership responsibilities, but no direct line management.