RQ00495 Solution Architect CRM Senior

Must haves:

• Bachelors or masters degree or equivalent working experience in Information Technology is required.
  
• 10 years experience as a Solution Architect in medical imaging technology solutions involved in day-to-day technical and business work including hands-on experience with provincially scaled Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) design and implementation.
  
• Demonstrated expertise in PACS DICOM Standards and HL7 interoperability standards
  
• Knowledge of the broader Ontario health care sector IT systems to ensure product dependencies are identified and managed.
  
• Knowledge of Architectural disciplines such as Business Application Information Infrastructure Privacy and/or Security.
  
• Knowledge of service management control and architecture frameworks such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) Zachman TOGAF Rational and/or Agile.
  
• Strong understanding of the Medical Imaging vendor landscape and how vendors operate within Integrated Community Health Services Centres (ICHSCs) including applicable ICHSC regulations.
  
• Knowledge of legislative boundaries and privacy regulations unique to Ontario and Canada.
  
• Knowledge of patient safety considerations.
  
• Experience working in the public/private sector preferably in a health care setting.
  

Responsibilities:

• Lead the definition and validation of enterprise-level architecture for the Provincial Enterprise Imaging ecosystem including EI-VNA Enterprise Imaging Viewer (EI-V) and the single Provincial Medical Imaging Repository ensuring alignment with provincial standards and clinical workflows.
  
• Develop and oversee technical implementation plans including architecture infrastructure integration pathways networking security and data flows to support scalable and secure enterprise imaging solutions.
  
• Support procurement and contract negotiations by validating technical requirements solution design and architectural alignment for enterprise imaging vendors.
  
• Establish and document standards for application interfaces middleware databases and system interactions across distributed environments ensuring performance reliability and interoperability.
  

Desired Skills:

• Ability to understand disparate health IT systems place in Ontarios health system and compare and contrast solutions and patterns to recommend/propose efficient and effective architectures and solutions pertinent to modernization of medical imaging assets in the province
  
• Ability to interpret and apply health information management principles to digital health care systems specifically medical imaging technologies and to leverage health care interoperability standards such as HL7 V2 or FHIR in development of architecture solutions.
  
• Ability to interpret and apply IT privacy and security standards principles and regulations applicable to the health care sector (such as FIPPA PHIPA) in development of architecture solutions.
  
• Ability to define requirements for execute and participate in public sector fair procurement processes.
  
• Problem solving and analytical skills to create strategies to mitigate various types of business privacy security and financial risks; identify gaps and opportunities within domains sectors and/or solutions and drive improvement and efficiency.
  
• Strong communication skills to facilitate negotiate and communicate both orally and in writing in support of internal and external partner engagement at the local provincial level delivering presentation material designing documents for both technical and non-technical audiences and to drive to consensus between internal stakeholders with conflicting goals and priorities.
  
• Ability to work at a high level of autonomy in setting objectives based on minimal direction from management.
  
• Ability to stay abreast of provincial national and international business technology architecture and solution design trends.
  

Work collaboratively:

• with internal and external stakeholders to understand Integration needs across Ontario Health and the broader health sector
  
• with other domain Architects as well as privacy security and policy areas as required
  
• with solution vendors and/or development groups to ensure solutions conform to integration architecture
  
• with external organizations (e.g.: Ministry of Health Canada Health Infoway etc.) to ensure alignment
  

Requirements

Evaluation Criteria:

• Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent working experience in Information Technology is required. 10 years experience as a Solution Architect in medical imaging technology solutions involved in day-to-day technical and business work including hands-on experience with provincially-scaled VNA design and implementation. - 20 Points
  
• Knowledge of Ontario health care sector IT systems to ensure product dependencies are identified and managed. - 20 Points
  
• Knowledge of Architectural disciplines such as Business Application Information Infrastructure Privacy and/or Security. - 20 Points
  
• Strong understanding of the Medical Imaging vendor landscape and how vendors operate within Integrated Community Health Services Centres (ICHSCs) including applicable ICHSC regulations. - 20 Points
  
• Knowledgeable of PHIPA and privacy legislation and how it applies to healthcare IT solutions. - 10 Points
  
• Experience dealing in a complex multi private/public stakeholder environment. - 10 Points
  

Deliverables Include but are not limited to:

• Support the contract negotiation for the Enterprise Imaging Vendor Neutral Archive (EI-VNA) by validating technical requirements architecture and solution alignment.
  
• Support in developing the technical implementation plan for the EI-VNA including architecture integration pathways and infrastructure requirements.
  
• Lead the creation of the draft RFPs technical components including requirements gathering architectural specifications integration design and workflows for the Enterprise Imaging Viewer (EI-V) provincial repository.
  
• Define and refine the solution architecture for the single Provincial Medical Imaging (MI) Repository ensuring alignment with provincial standards and clinical workflows.
  
• Design and oversee configuration of the technical foundation including infrastructure interfaces networking security and data flows.
  
• Develop the data migration strategy including migration approach sequencing integration considerations and technical requirements for contributing to hospitals and the initial cohort of ICHSCs.
  
• Oversee deployment of technical pre-requisites including migration tools interface components and network configurations.
  
• Establish and document technical integration and migration processes for both contributing hospitals and ICHSC participants.
  

Must Haves:

• Bachelors or masters degree or equivalent working experience in Information Technology is required.
  
• 10 years experience as a Solution Architect in medical imaging technology solutions involved in day-to-day technical and business work including hands-on experience with provincially scaled Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) design and implementation.
  
• 10 years Demonstrated expertise in PACS DICOM Standards and HL7 interoperability standards