Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

GHX is looking for a visionary Vice President, Enterprise Architecture to design, implement, and lead our Enterprise Architecture Program, ensuring our SaaS platforms are secure, reliable, and cost-effective at scale. This role will play a strategic leadership role in guiding architectural decisions, standardizing engineering practices, and integrating AI into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to drive measurable improvements across the organization. 

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will partner across technology and business teams to bring structure, clarity, and innovation to our architecture while representing GHX with both internal and external stakeholders, including customers and the board. 

Key Responsibilities 

Build and Operate the Enterprise Architecture Program 

• Establish and lead GHX’s enterprise architecture strategy to ensure long-term alignment between technology and business goals. 

• Define and enforce architectural principles focused on Security, Reliability, and Cost Effectiveness. 

• Continuously assess and evolve systems architecture for scale, compliance (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST), and cloud efficiency. 

• Act as a strategic advisor to business and technology leaders by providing guidance on technology investments and architecture decisions. 

Standardize Engineering Practices Across GHX 

• Defines world class guiding principles, standards, and patterns to create multi-tiered architecture that is scalable, reliable, and cost effective.   

• Define and roll out architectural standards, documentation frameworks and decision-making processes across all engineering teams. 

• Drive cross-functional alignment and visibility on technical initiatives by working with product, security, operations, and compliance. 

• Drives high adoption of standards and tools among architects and stakeholders. 
• Act as a technology ambassador with GHX leadership, customers, and the board—clearly articulating architectural decisions, risks, and trade-offs 

Leverage AI to Optimize the Software Development Lifecycle 

• Envision and communicate future-state architecture aligned with business goals including vision document and strategic technology roadmap. 

• Identify and implement AI/ML tools and practices to improve code quality, automate testing, enhance observability, and reduce technical debt. 

• Drive adoption of AI across the SDLC to accelerate delivery while improving system resilience and reducing long-term operational costs. 

• Lead internal education and governance around AI tooling, model use, and risks in production environments. 

Additional Responsibilities 

• Guide the design and implementation of GHX’s platform architecture including microservices, event-driven patterns, and data flows. 

• Serve as a mentor and thought leader for engineering teams, encouraging architectural rigor and forward-thinking design. 

• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors, ensuring alignment with GHX’s strategic priorities and compliance requirements. 

• Collaborate on cloud infrastructure optimization, including cost modeling, observability, and infrastructure-as-code standards. 

• M&A platform integration architecture and design. 
• Act as a mentor, conflict mediator and facilitator of design sessions to capture and resolve all relevant architecture issues. 

Required Qualifications 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ in senior architectural or platform leadership roles. 

• Proven experience designing and maintaining enterprise-grade SaaS platforms in regulated industries (preferably healthcare). 

• Strong grasp of cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure), modern SDLC practices, DevOps, and security architecture. 

• Demonstrated success in building and managing architectural frameworks and governance in large, distributed environments. 

• Effective communicator capable of influencing C-level leaders, technical teams, and external stakeholders. 

• Experience integrating or building AI/ML solutions to enhance software engineering outcomes or platform capabilities. 

• Demonstrated high trust and credibility with business and technology leadership. 
• Ability to effectively facilitate high level discussions, resolve conflict and guide creative sessions. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in healthcare, supply chain, or both. 

• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, CodeWhisperer, AI test generation. 

• Understanding of regulatory and data exchange standards like HL7, FHIR, EDI 

 The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX’s salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/

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GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.

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Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, “GHX”) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement.

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