Req # 0900 - Enterprise Architect

Who We Are

Mercy Ships is a global faith-based charity that uses hospital ships to bring life-changing surgeries and transformational medical training to people in some of the most challenging contexts along the African coast. For over 40 years, Mercy Ships has been delivering lasting hope and healing through safe surgical care, while working alongside partners and stakeholders to strengthen local healthcare systems in more than 55 countries. Since the inception of this dream by founders Don and Deyon Stephens in 1978, Mercy Ships has served more than 2.7 million direct beneficiaries without regard for race, gender, or religion.

The Opportunity

Do you have a heart for the hurting and a desire to invest your talents and experiences into a mission with eternal significance? For every transformative surgery that takes place onboard one of our Mercy Ships, there are dozens of men and women being used of the Lord to prepare through their vocational gifts and talents!

$95,000 - $110,000 USD Commensurate Experience and other qualifications. Compensation may vary due to the Candidate’s location.

Job Summary

This role is a member of the Enterprise Architecture team, supporting the Director of IT Strategy & Governance/ Enterprise Architecture with the maintenance of enterprise and business architectures that describe the organization's current and future states. The EA works closely with stakeholders to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions. And aligns IT investments with business strategy. The role also interfaces with senior technology leaders to transform the current business and technology capabilities.

How You’ll Contribute 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily:

• Responsible for supporting the translation of business objectives into a technology operating model, encompassing business processes, systems, and infrastructure to achieve predictable transition to the intended state.
• Works collaboratively with other EA’s and stakeholders to develop a 5-year IT strategic plan. Also maintain and update this plan after it is created. o Author and enforce architectural standards and procedures to govern the adoption and usage of technology and make decisions on adjustments as needed.
• Responsible for managing enterprise-wide architecture processes to ensure that the strategic application of change is embedded in the management and review processes of the organization.
• Collaborates with Information Technology (IT) and business staff to generate a technology current state, desired future state, and corresponding roadmap.
• Recognizes potential strategic application of IT capabilities to include evaluation of emerging technologies. o Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
• Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, options & impact analysis, and producing high-level business models.
• Evaluate new applications and platforms to ensure respective business, application, data, solution, and technology perspectives are in line with the organization’s technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards.
• Maintains an awareness of the global needs of the organization and promotes (to both IT and business management) the benefits that a common approach to information and communications technology deployment will bring to the business.
• Develop and maintain system diagrams, highlighting the relationship between business value, capabilities, and technology by creating logical, business, integration, and functional architecture artifacts for review by applications and engineering teams and security.
• Contributes to the development of IT strategy, goals, and objectives, and collaborates with other IT managers to ensure that they are met, within the priorities and resources of the department.
• Provides exceptional customer service to all partners, applying Mercy Ships core values as the cornerstone of all actions and communication.
• Acts as a team player, using principles from the book Crucial Conversations to ensure strong and open working relationships.
• Perform EA Consults that provide recommendations and design solutions which improves the user experience, expand platform utilization, and align with the overall company strategy.
• Protects information assets controlled within the IT systems, applications, or infrastructure, as defined in Mercy Ships policies and procedures.
• Facilitate the Architecture Review Board (ARB). Ensure proposed IT solutions to resolve business challenges fit the existing enterprise environment and adhere to the EA guiding principles. Follow up with teams to SMEs to ensure ARB findings were implemented.
• Assess the impact on the overall business goals and outcomes, considering all constraints of new solutions being deployed (technology, risks, change management, cost, time, and resources).
• Mentors and trains cross functional teams on processes and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Ideal Candidate Will Demonstrate:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

• Able to contribute to community life, requiring stable and healthy interpersonal skills.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and modelling principles.
• Knowledge of formal IT management best practice, such as TOGAF, COBIT, and ITIL.
• An ability to adjust quickly in response to organizational, strategic or priority changes and shifting customer needs.
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with strong analytical and organizational skills.
• A strong customer service orientation, with excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills include being courteous, responsive, accurate and competent and engaged.
• Ability to gain consensus, make decisions, and take ownership.
• Supportive of Mercy Ships mission and vision and committed to its core values.
• Understand and apply servant leadership, work collaboratively with integrity and demonstrate accountability.

Education And Experience

The requirements listed below are representative of the education and / or experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science or Business Administration, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 5 years relevant work experience is required, preferably with at least 3 years management experience in an enterprise IT environment.
• Experience in planning and technical guidance for multi-discipline teams.
• Experience in the development and management of enterprise architecture functions.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Successful completion of Mercy Ships Entry Training will be required within the first year.

Benefits

• The opportunity to use your professional skills to make a global impact.
• The opportunity to live out your faith at work.
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance.
• 403(b) retirement savings plan, with matching contribution.
• Paid holidays & a competitive rate of Paid Time Off accrual
• Staff devotionals, prayer time, and Chaplaincy support.
• On campus dining with gourmet meals, including a specialty coffee shop and community events.
• On campus recreation, including indoor basketball and racquetball courts, weight room, walking and biking trails, a disk golf course, and an outdoor pool.

Pour your God-given talents into a mission with eternal return on investment -- join the Mercy Ships Crew, today!

This is a paid position. To Apply for Consideration Please Visit Mercy Ships Careers Website at https://careers.mercyships.org

To explore our many Mercy Ships volunteer opportunities, please visit us at: https://www.mercyships.org/get-involved/volunteer/

**Compensation range listed is for U.S. hires only. Actual compensation may vary dependent upon location of hire.