Job Description:
We are currently seeking an Enterprise Architect to play a key role in the successful modernization of the Illinois Medicaid Enterprise System (MES). The Enterprise Architect will assist the (Lead) Medicaid Enterprise Architect in defining and governing the end-to-end enterprise architecture for the State of Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) task order supporting Medicaid Enterprise modernization. This role ensures that solution designs align to business outcomes, Medicaid Enterprise objectives, and target-state architecture across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains. The Enterprise Architect will support architecture planning and roadmap development, establish architecture standards and patterns, and provide oversight to ensure solution consistency, interoperability, scalability, and maintainability. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this role evaluates current-state capabilities, identifies gaps and risks, and guides modernization decisions including cloud strategy, integration approaches (e.g., API-enabled architecture), data architecture, and legacy system transition. Serving as an key architecture resource for HFS, and key stakeholders, this role facilitates architecture governance (e.g., design reviews, decision logs, and compliance to standards) and supports the establishment of architectural direction, facilitates tradeoffs, and identifies key impacts for discussion with both technical and non-technical audiences throughout the engagement.
