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Company Overview

LHC Group as part of it business strategy is significantly investing in Information Technology. This is to ensure that the organization is in position to provide healthcare services for the 21st century.

The VP Enterprise Architect works with the business, IT and our partners / vendors to identify the major business initiatives associated with the overall business strategy, helps develop the over IT roadmap appropriately supported by a solid enterprise wide architectural solution. Also helps develop the big picture enterprise architecture and a home healthcare / hospice capability heat map. The Architect(s) directs the technical activity of the implementations to ensure that the developed solutions aligns with the specified solution.

Essential Functions

The Architect is responsible for performing the following tasks:

• Lead the LHCG architects and business/IT/vendor representatives to gather requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements for the solution

• Assess the ‘fit’ of the package to business needs and expectations. Provide experience to assist with what’s needed vs what’s possible

• Review solution requirements for reasonability and conformance to project constraints and provide experience into

• Work with the business analysts to create detailed requirements that specify the functional architecture of the system

• Good understanding of the principles and approach associated with API / SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based integration.

• Maintain an overall perspective of business objective, not loosing sight of the big picture.

• Utilise open and modular architecture techniques, IT & business knowledge to strategically align requirements with business direction.

• Ensure that scope is aligned to the agreed deliverable, identify divergence of scope & escalate to the appropriate managers

• Work with the business unit project managers and user community to determine changes that will be required to implement approved service requests

• Ability to analyse business needs with a big picture view, and ability to drive through to the detail level

• Closely work with ITSecurity/Vendor teams to ensure tight alignment of objectives and expectations.

• Closely work with the development team to ensure that the developed solution matches the required solution

• Map the alignment of the critical success factors with the business strategies

• Maintain data about the reference architectures used to implement the infrastructure / application portfolio

• Assist in change management and problem management processes as the business needs arise

• Assist in the collection, storage, and reporting of measurement data.

• Participate in other value-added operational processes such as project planning, staffing, testing, and quality assurance.

Please note that this position maybe performed through a remote Home office (e.g. home-shored, virtual ). While the preferred location would be based out of headquarters at Lafayette, LA - candidates to work at remote locations within the Dallas, Houston, Denver, or Louisville regions will be considered.

Education & Experience

• Must have a master’s degree and should have a minimum 15 years of experience with 3 years as VP

• Proven track record in delivery of home healthcare / hospice solutions for Tier 1 Organization

• Leadership, ability to work with customers and present and gain acceptance with proposed technical solution

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely

• Ability to work in a team environment and handle pressure situations

• Ability to organise and lead Workshop & requirements facilitation sessions

• Well-organised

• Logical thinking approach to all problems

• Detail-oriented

• Self-directed

• Preferred Skills:

• Telco & Network knowledge

• HCHB knowledge in particular e xperience in PointCare - SLA Management and Customer Event notification) & SSO

• Design & Implementation experience

• Experience in any of the following vendor packages / Solutions would be advantageous: Lawson (INFOR), Aprima, Continulink, WorldView, Epic, Microsoft, AWS

An equal opportunity employer

LHC Group is an equal opportunity employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status or any other legally protected status. To learn more about the opportunities for you with LHC Group and our affiliates, contact one of our Human Resources team members at 1.866.LHC.Group.

Found here: http://lhcgroup.com/careers