**Description** **Introduction** Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Consulting IT Architect today with HCA Healthcare. **Benefits** HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: + Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation. + Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more. + Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing + 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service) + Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock + Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance. + Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more + Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts + Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships + Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships) + Colleague recognition program + Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence) + Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income. Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards) **_Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._** Come join our team as a Consulting IT Architect. We care for our community! Just last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today! **Job Summary and Qualifications** Position Summary The Consulting IT Architect will provide technical direction to ITG Systems staff. Works closely with other HCA ITG Architects and Engineers to ensure enterprise technical standards are maintained. Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems. Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains those programs. Competent to work on all phases of applications systems analysis and programming activities. Provides guidance to other staff members through all phases of project. Major Responsibilities: Our Purpose Applied to this position, your skills will help transform healthcare through technology and solutions that dramatically improve patient care and business operations. Core Competencies: DECISION MAKING • Meets with customer peers, and vendors regularly to define and resolve product or project problems and issues • Analyzes business requirements, develops and evaluates alternatives, prepares approaches for complex programming systems or applications • Major participation in systems software buy or build decisions • Contributes to development of strategy and architecture • Provides technical advice to management recommending approaches and solutions to complex problems ANALYTICAL & CREATIVE • Analyzes objectives, solves problems, and develops requirements and proposals for programming systems. These activities require sophisticated business and technical expertise, extensive programming systems. These activities require sophisticated business and technical expertise, extensive programming and systems knowledge and considerable innovative ability • Work may result in publication of technical papers • Keeps technically current with changes and improvements within area of assignment or specialization, incorporating them where applicable • Contributes to the development of new programming / analysis concepts and improvements of existing technique INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS • Makes presentations frequently to senior management • Represents company at technical conferences • Recognized as an authority inside / outside own organization • Must be able to understand the requirements of multiple departments, identify and negotiate tradeoffs to gain management agreement with proposed recommendations OUTSIDE RELATIONSHIPS: • Attend technical meetings and conferences and representing views of company. • Regularly participated in vendor discussions • Meets with vendors resolving problems MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY • A staff position with major responsibility for programming guidelines interpretation relating to a significant program or project • Provides and is accountable for technical direction to a group of professionals • Recommends updates and enhancements to guidelines as necessary. Education & Experience: • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required • Master's degree in computer science or related field preferred • 10+ years of experience in Information Technology required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors: • A successful candidate will have: • Requires a knowledge of advanced technology, systems design and an overall understanding of advanced technology, systems design and an overall understanding of hardware technology, the development process and system design • Must have a sound understanding of the Erlang VM, Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, HTML/CSS, SQL and NoSQL Database and UNIX operating system • Knowledge of healthcare integration standards such as HL7 and FHIR • Knowledge of queuing engines such as Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ • Requires 10 years of related work experience, extensive professional systems and programming background • Good communication and negotiation skills in order to interact with site peers, local management and executives on technical issues on project planning. • Has made extensive use of improved programming analysis technology PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS • Prolonged sitting or standing at computer workstation including use of mouse, keyboard, and monitor. • Requires ability to provide after-hours support. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses. "The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Consulting IT Architect opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. **Unlock the possibilities and apply today!** We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.