The Chief Architect will lead enterprise architecture strategy including design, governance, and execution across data and applications, manage a team, and ensure alignment with business goals.
Censis is seeking an experienced Chief Architect to lead the design, governance, and execution of enterprise‑wide architecture across data, applications, integrations, and platforms. This role will manage and scale a team of architects while remaining hands‑on in defining modern, secure, and scalable architecture solutions that support Censis’s business strategy and long‑term growth.
The Chief Archiect will be responsible for establishing architectural standards and guardrails, guiding critical technical decisions, and ensuring alignment between business priorities and technology execution. This role requires deep technical expertise—particularly in modern data and analytics platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse architecture, Power BI, semantic modeling)—combined with strong people leadership, strategic thinking, and cross‑functional influence.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Define, own, and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology capabilities, scalability, security, and compliance.
- Lead a team of architects, providing technical direction, performance coaching, and career development while planning for future team growth.
- Establish and enforce architecture governance, standards, and best practices across data, applications, integrations, and infrastructure domains.
- Serve as the final decision authority for enterprise and product architecture decisions, resolving trade-offs and architectural disputes across teams.
- Partner closely with Technology, Product, Engineering, Security, and Business leaders to ensure architecture roadmaps support organizational goals.
- Build and mature the Enterprise Architecture function, fostering a culture of architectural excellence and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and guide strategic investments in data platforms, analytics, AI tools, integration technologies, and automation.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external partners such as Microsoft, AWS, and service delivery partners to execute on enterprise architecture strategy.
- Accountable for architecture decisions that balance performance, scalability, reliability, security, and total cost of ownership
- Define architectural patterns and deployment standards that reduce operational burden and long-term maintenance costs.
- Partner with Finance, Engineering, and Cloud Operations to guide cost-aware architectural decisions, including cloud spend optimization.
- Own the end-to-end architecture of Censis products and shared platforms, including application design, data architecture, integrations, and infrastructure.
- Define and drive the product modernization strategy, including cloud-native design, modularization, and reduction of technical debt.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to influence roadmap decisions based on architectural risk, scalability needs, and long-term cost implications.
- Ensure architectural decisions support multi-tenant scalability, high availability, and healthcare-grade reliability.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in technology and enterprise architecture across data, applications, integrations, and platforms
- 5+ years in an enterprise, solution, or architecture leadership role with accountability for architectural outcomes
- Proven ability to build, lead, and scale high‑performing teams, including mentoring senior architects
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and setting enterprise‑level technical direction, standards, and guardrails
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and governance operating models
- Strong experience designing and governing modern data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse) with a focus on scalability, performance, and reuse
- Hands‑on experience with Power BI and modern semantic modeling, including ownership of enterprise data and reporting standards
- Experience designing and governing integrations using APIs and middleware platforms such as Azure API Management, Boomi, or similar
- Proficiency in ELT/ETL architecture using SQL Server, columnar data formats (Delta, Parquet), and modern pipeline orchestration tools
- Strong working knowledge of Python, T‑SQL, Spark, or similar technologies
- Working knowledge of application technologies such as C#, .NET, Node.js, and modern front‑end frameworks (Vue.js a plus)
- Experience evaluating and governing AI‑assisted development and analytics tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) within enterprise standards
- Experience partnering with Agile/Scrum delivery teams, product management, and engineering leadership
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to translate complex architectural decisions into clear business outcomes and delivery impact
- Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Data Engineer)
- Power BI certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst)
- Microsoft Fabric certification(s) or equivalent modern data platform credentials
- Enterprise or Data Architecture certifications such as TOGAF (or equivalent) — a plus
Product & Platform Architecture Ownership
- Own the end-to-end architecture of Censis products and shared platforms, including application design, data architecture, integrations, and infrastructure.
- Define and drive the product modernization strategy, including cloud-native design, modularization, and reduction of technical debt.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to influence roadmap decisions based on architectural risk, scalability needs, and long-term cost implications.
- Ensure architectural decisions support multi-tenant scalability, high availability, and healthcare-grade reliability.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 12+ years of progressive experience in technology and enterprise architecture across data, applications, integrations, and platforms
- 5+ years in an enterprise, solution, or architecture leadership role with accountability for architectural outcomes
- Proven ability to build, lead, and scale high‑performing teams, including mentoring senior architects
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and setting enterprise‑level technical direction, standards, and guardrails
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and governance operating models
- Strong experience designing and governing modern data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse) with a focus on scalability, performance, and reuse
- Hands‑on experience with Power BI and modern semantic modeling, including ownership of enterprise data and reporting standards
- Experience designing and governing integrations using APIs and middleware platforms such as Azure API Management, Boomi, or similar
- Proficiency in ELT/ETL architecture using SQL Server, columnar data formats (Delta, Parquet), and modern pipeline orchestration tools
- Strong working knowledge of Python, T‑SQL, Spark, or similar technologies
- Working knowledge of application technologies such as C#, .NET, Node.js, and modern front‑end frameworks (Vue.js a plus)
- Experience evaluating and governing AI‑assisted development and analytics tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) within enterprise standards
- Experience partnering with Agile/Scrum delivery teams, product management, and engineering leadership
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to translate complex architectural decisions into clear business outcomes and delivery impact
Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Data Engineer)
- Power BI certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst)
- Microsoft Fabric certification(s) or equivalent modern data platform credentials
- Enterprise or Data Architecture certifications such as TOGAF (or equivalent) — a plus
Why This Role Matters at Censis
This role is foundational to Censis’s ability to scale intelligently. The Enterprise Architecture Manager will shape how technology decisions are made across the company—ensuring consistency, speed, and long‑term value—while building the architectural muscle needed to support innovation in a regulated healthcare environment.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About the Team About Censis
Censis, the first company to engineer a surgical asset management system that tracks down to the instrument and patient levels, has continually set the standards for the sterile processing industry.
From the beginning, Censis has recognized the vital connection between perioperative innovation and efficiency, unparalleled customer care and improved operational performance. By continuing to invest in technology, ease of integration, education and support, Censis provides solutions that empower hospitals and healthcare providers to stay compliant and ahead of healthcare’s rapidly changing environment. With Censis, you’re positioned to start ahead and stay ahead, no matter what the future holds.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].
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