As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA

 

The In-Patient Technology Architect defines and governs the enterprise architecture for technologies used directly by patients and clinicians in exam rooms and patient rooms. The role provides domain ownership for in‑room and bedside solutions, ensuring they are safe, scalable, secure, and consistently deployable across facilities, while aligning technology decisions to clinical workflows, patient experience, privacy, and infrastructure requirements.

 

Corporate Overview: University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system with five hospitals including a level 1 trauma center, eleven community health centers, over 1,600 providers, and a health plan serving over 200,000 members. University of Utah Health is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. In addition to our clinical delivery system, we have a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Health providing education and training for over 1,250 providers annually. We have over 2 million patient visits annually and research grants exceeding $350 million. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics represents our clinical operations for the larger health system.

Essential Functions

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise reference architectures, standards, and guardrails for patient‑facing and point‑of‑care room technologies.
• Lead solution architecture for exam‑room and patient‑room capabilities (e.g., patient engagement, in‑room interaction, bedside workflows).
• Establish repeatable integration patterns between patient‑facing solutions and enterprise platforms (clinical systems, identity, network, infrastructure).
• Perform architectural assessments of patient‑facing vendors/solutions and document design decisions, tradeoffs, and target‑state architectures.
• Reduce fragmentation and rework by promoting standard designs and shared platforms across facilities and care settings.

Cross‑Domain Integration and Governance

• Partner with Clinical Operations, Facilities/Construction, Information Security/Privacy, Infrastructure/Network, and Identity teams to ensure designs meet operational constraints and compliance obligations.
• Participate in (and help mature) intake, discovery, and architecture review processes for patient‑facing initiatives; ensure decisions are captured and reusable.
• Define architectural criteria and governance checkpoints for new patient‑room technologies to ensure consistent deployment, supportability, and risk management.

Strategy, Influence and Communication

• Translate clinical and patient experience needs into target‑state architectures and a practical modernization roadmap for patient‑facing technologies.
• Influence stakeholders through clear architecture rationale, risk/benefit analysis, and alignment to patient safety, reliability, and privacy principles.
• Communicate architecture standards and decisions effectively to both technical and clinical audiences; enable adoption through patterns, templates, and guidance.

In Scope Items

• Technologies used directly by patients or clinicians in exam rooms and patient rooms
• In‑room / bedside interaction and patient engagement capabilities at the point of care
• Architectural integration with clinical systems (e.g., EHR-related workflows), identity, networking, infrastructure, and security services
• Vendor/solution architecture assessments and enterprise standards for patient‑facing room technologies

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Enterprise and Solution Architecture: Demonstrated ability to develop enterprise and solution architectures, reference models, technology standards, design patterns, and architectural guardrails for complex technology environments.

• Healthcare Technology Architecture: Strong understanding of technologies used within patient rooms, exam rooms, and other point-of-care environments, including patient engagement, bedside, smart-room, clinical workflow, and connected-device solutions.

• Systems Integration: Ability to design scalable integration approaches across clinical applications, identity and access management, networking, infrastructure, security, devices, and other enterprise platforms.

• Architecture Governance: Ability to establish and apply architecture principles, standards, review criteria, and governance checkpoints to promote consistency, interoperability, scalability, security, and supportability across the organization.

• Technical Assessment and Decision-Making: Skilled in evaluating technologies and vendor solutions, identifying architectural risks and dependencies, analyzing alternatives and tradeoffs, and documenting architecture recommendations and decisions.

• Clinical Workflow Understanding: Ability to understand clinical and patient workflows and translate operational and patient experience requirements into effective technology architecture and design solutions.

• Security, Privacy, and Risk: Working knowledge of information security, privacy, data protection, and regulatory considerations applicable to healthcare and patient-facing technology environments.

• Clinical and Facilities Technology Integration: Ability to design and integrate technology within complex clinical and physical environments, considering clinical workflows, room design, construction requirements, network and infrastructure dependencies, medical/biomedical technologies, patient safety, security, and operational supportability. Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Clinical Operations, Facilities/Construction, Clinical Engineering/Biomedical, Infrastructure, and other technical teams to establish scalable and repeatable room-based technology designs.

• Strategic Technology Planning: Ability to assess current-state environments, define target-state architectures, identify technology gaps and dependencies, and develop practical modernization and technology roadmaps.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with clinical operations, information technology, information security, facilities and construction, biomedical/clinical engineering, vendors, and other stakeholders.

• Influence and Consultation: Ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders without direct authority and provide authoritative architectural guidance on complex technology decisions.

• Communication: Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts, risks, standards, and recommendations to technical, clinical, operational, and executive audiences.

• Problem Solving and Systems Thinking: Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills with the ability to evaluate complex dependencies, anticipate downstream impacts, and develop scalable solutions across multiple facilities and care environments.

• Software Engineering and Prototyping: Knowledge of software engineering principles and the ability to use prototypes, proofs of concept, or technical demonstrations to validate architecture concepts and solution approaches.

• Hardware and Software Product Knowledge: Understanding of hardware and software product lifecycles, vendor capabilities, product roadmaps, interoperability requirements, and technical considerations that influence enterprise architecture decisions.

• Vendor and Technology Evaluation: Ability to assess vendor architectures, product capabilities, integration requirements, technical maturity, lifecycle considerations, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.

• Independent Judgment: Ability to operate with a high degree of independence, manage ambiguity, establish technical direction, and make or recommend architecture decisions within established organizational governance.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Three years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or senior technical design roles (healthcare or regulated environments preferred).
• Experience designing solutions that connect physical room‑based technologies with enterprise IT services and clinical workflows.
• Strong understanding of privacy, security, and compliance considerations for patient‑facing technologies and environments that handle sensitive data.
• Proven ability to operate independently, document architecture decisions, and influence cross‑functional stakeholders.

Preferred

• Innovation mentality.
• Experience with smart room, bedside, or patient engagement technologies and point‑of‑care workflows.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability and integration concepts (e.g., interface patterns and secure data exchange approaches).
• Experience partnering across IT, clinical, and facilities teams in build/renovation or multi‑site deployment contexts.
• Software engineering and software prototyping experience.
• Hardware and software product management skills.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

• This is a sedentary position in an office setting that may exert up to 10 pounds and may lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. This position involves sitting most of the time and is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Carrying, Climbing, Color Determination, Crawling, Far Vision, Lifting, Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Non Indicated, Pulling and/or Pushing, Reaching, Sitting, Speaking, Standing, Stooping and Crouching, Tasting or Smelling, Walking