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Children's Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and not-for-profit system since 1924, Children's Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two free-standing hospitals, nine primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites. As The Kids Experts™ in our region, Children's Minnesota is regularly ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top children's hospital. Find us on Facebook @childrensminnesota or on Twitter and Instagram @childrensmn. Please visit childrensMN.org.

Department Overview



Position Summary

The Infrastructure architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future-state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing and immersive experiences technologies.

Technical architects provide the leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required for the development of an enterprise's technical and infrastructure architecture. Infrastructure architects create deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise, in order to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes. They enable and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through facilitating and making technical decisions.

License/Certification/Registration required? No

Education:
*Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, system analysis or a related study, or 10-15 years equivalent experience

Experience:
*Minimum 10 years of design and implementation experience in IT, with a deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following (or similar) technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), middleware, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies, and Active Directory and protocols
*Experience with working in an Agile environment and with using and promoting Agile methodologies
*Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
*Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
*Strong leadership skills
*Excellent analytical and technical skills
*Excellent written and verbal communication skills
*Excellent planning and organizational skills
*Knowledge of many, if not most, components of an enterprise technology architecture
*Knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
*Knowledge of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
*Knowledge of IT standards and controls
*Understanding of information principles and processes
*Understanding of financial models and budgeting
*Understanding of network and security architecture
*Understanding of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)

Physical Demands

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All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of an occupational health assessment, drug screen, background investigation, and compliance with the U.S. Government Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Children's Minnesota requires proof of COVID-19 vaccine, and as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), immunity to vaccine preventable infectious diseases, prior to employment.

Children's Minnesota is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities to all applicants. EO M/F/Disability/Vet Employer.

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