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Service Integration Architect Principal Architect

Primary Location Pleasanton, CA Worker Location Remote Job Number 1271556 Date posted 04/13/2024
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Description:

Technical Summary

***Role is fully remote - however, you must reside within a state where Kaiser Permanente does business (WA, OR, CA, CO, GA, MD, VA, DC, HI)


Serving as a senior thought leader across infrastructure planning, engineering, and deployment teams, this role is responsible for planning and designing block & file storage architectures by driving both functional and non-functional requirements and validating system designs with risk, issue, assumption, and dependency considerations.This individual contributor role is required to build consensus on storage technology, roadmaps, and strategies across multiple organizations by collaborating with business leaders, vendors/partners, managed services, architects, service owners/product owners and service delivery teams. It requires a deep subject matter expertise in several areas of enterprise storage, including Hardware/Software Technologies & Platform Models (Dell Powermax, Powerflex, NetApp AFF-X00, FAS-X000, VXRAIL, Isilon, VMAX, Pure FlashBlade, etc.); modern switching technologies, standards, capabilities, protocols, services & best-practices. Optional experience with Commvault & Object storage data protection use-cases, private & public cloud (i.e. Azure) based storage design and implementations, Security/Cyber Resiliency and security hardening best-practices, Kubernetes Stateful storage considerations for Containers and ethernet networking is desired. As a lead architect you will be expected to interface with senior leadership on a regular basis, tying together technical and financial considerations.


Job Summary:

This senior level individual contributor is primarily responsible for leading development of the IT strategic technology direction over technical domains and developing the IT enterprise architecture, while ensuring alignment on IT architecture and technology direction across business and IT leaders.



Essential Responsibilities:


  • Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

  • Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

  • Leads development of the architecture strategy and technology direction over technical domains by collaborating with executives to translate business and IT objectives into architectural approach.

  • Provides expertise and shares an understanding of current capability gaps, architectural gaps, and market and industry trends that can be used to set future direction.

  • Leads the definition and communication of architecture standards, guidelines, and statements of direction by providing expertise and guidance to architects on the design and establishment of architecture standards to ensure alignment with IT strategy and target architecture.

  • Reviews, contributes to, and approves architecture standards or controls which allow business needs to be met.

  • Develops and establishes architectural best practices that guide the design of technology solutions.

  • Develops and maintains the architecture for assigned domain(s) (for example, data, infrastructure), and takes accountability for ensuring alignment with IT strategy and target state architecture.

  • Provides the vision for strategic roadmaps to align business, applications, data, integration, and/or infrastructure architecture.

  • Manages the development of transition plans for moving from the current to the target state architecture.

  • Provides consulting to architects on developing architecture designs.

  • Helps create the vision for adopting new high-impact technologies by researching technical trends and developments.

  • Partners with IT and business senior leadership to facilitate and influence decisions regarding technology investment.

  • Drives innovation across the team using a deep understanding of how enterprise architecture works within the organization.

  • Takes accountability for ensuring adoption of architecture best practices for assigned domain(s) and educates others throughout the organization on the function of architecture methodologies, governance, and standards by serving as a subject matter expert across business and/or IT teams, and presenting to internal and external audiences, including senior leadership.

  • Builds partnerships with architects and other stakeholders to facilitate the continuous development and drive consensus on changes to the companys architecture practices.

  • Takes accountability for ensuring appropriate reporting to executives, business leaders, and IT management to communicate the impact of architecture practices.

Minimum Qualifications:


  • Minimum three (3) years experience with modeling techniques (e.g., BPMN, UML, ER).

  • Minimum four (4) years experience translating solution requirements into technical architecture requirements.

  • Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, Business, or related technical field and Minimum ten (10) years IT experience delivering technical solutions, including at least Minimum four (4) years in IT architecture. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.


Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Three (3) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)
  • Four (4) years experience in a leadership role of a large matrixed organization.
  • Four (4) years experience working with IT vendors.
  • Six (6) years experience architecting, designing, and implementing enterprise-scale, high volume, high availability systems.
  • Six (6) years experience establishing and documenting standards, guidelines, and best practices.
  • Three (3) years experience working with Enterprise Architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF or Zachman.
  • Three (3) years infrastructure architecture experience.
  • Three (3) years experience working with large corporate or enterprise business systems.
  • Three (3) years experience working with emerging technologies related to architecture.
Primary Location: California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building B Additional Locations:

Corona Data Center, 1850 California Ave., Corona,California, 92881
KP-IT @ West Annex - Parsons, 74 N. Pasadena Ave., Pasadena,California, 91124
KPIT - Dole Annex, 680 Iwilei Rd. Ste. 600, Honolulu,Hawaii, 96817
Nicolai Service Center, 2850 NW Nicolai Ave., Portland,Oregon, 97210
Greenwood Plaza IT, 6560 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Greenwood Village,Colorado, 80111
Pershing Point Plaza IT, 1375 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta,Georgia, 30309
New Carrollton Administration, 4000 Garden City Dr., Hyattsville,Maryland, 20785
Renton Administration - Rainier, 2715 Naches Ave. SW, Renton,Washington, 98057
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 08:30 AM Working Hours End: 04:30 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Remote Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Individual Contributor Specialty: Architecture Department: KPIT ADMIN - ITO IPS EO SIA - 9601 Pay Range: $185900 - $240570 / year The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted. Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time Remote: Work location is the remote workplace (from home) within KP authorized states. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest