Associate Vice President of Enterprise Architecture bei NBME

POSITION OVERVIEW

As Associate Vice President of Enterprise Architecture (AVP, EA) you will lead the technical architecture mission and strategy for the organization, ensuring our enterprise architecture evolves in step with our business strategy, assessment product roadmaps, internal staff needs, and emerging technologies. To achieve this, you will partner with business and IT leaders to shape the next generation of NBME business capabilities and technology that enables them. And you will consider how solutions integrate into our current and future enterprise landscape.

This role has been designated as primarily remote, meaning it requires little to no onsite attendance. While this role can be designated as remote, you are offered the flexibility to select if you prefer to work primarily remotely, hybrid, or onsite. We're open to considering candidates residing in the following states: DE, NJ, MD, PA, or VA

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the healthcare community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come.

1. ABOUT THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE TEAM
   

   The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team plays a strategic role in enabling NBME's business outcomes by aligning technology standards and decisions with organizational goals. EA provides guidance that maximizes value to NBME through cost-effective, secure, and sustainable technology solutions. The team fosters collaboration and flexibility across IT and business units, promoting practical governance that supports innovation and agility.

   Enterprise Architects set clear technology guardrails and help establish reusable solutions and patterns that improve architectural integrity and efficiency. They also encourage experimentation and adoption of emerging technologies while balancing enterprise-wide priorities with specific business and technology needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Align architecture with strategy: Develops and maintains relationships with key business leaders across the organization to align technology strategy and standards with NBME's strategic goals and assessment product roadmaps.
• Govern architecture with guardrails, not gates: Develops and maintains enterprise architecture frameworks, patterns, and standards which function as guardrails for implementation teams. Strikes the right balance between ensuring compliance with architectural standards and making tactical exceptions to ensure flexibility required for innovation and optimal business outcomes. Responsible for application policy and architecture governance processes.
• Enable agile delivery: Leads a team of architects embedded within Agile business capability development teams to guide them on the design of solutions within the EA guardrails, ensuring balance between enterprise consistency and team autonomy.
• Accelerate experimentation: Facilitates proof of concept work to solve difficult problems and collaboratively create practical reusable components. Influences the community to gain support for their use.
• Mentor and upskill talent: Provides mentorship and guidance to architects and technical staff.
• Evolve the tech stack: Evaluates and recommends new technologies and tools to enhance enterprise capabilities.
• Champion Innovation and Emerging Technologies: Provides strategic leadership in identifying, evaluating, and adopting emerging technologies (e.g., AI, NLP, ML) to strengthen NBME's product capabilities, platform evolution, and business process transformation.
• Advance engineering excellence: Contributes to the definition and execution of DevSecOps and MLOps practices that support secure, automated, and high-velocity delivery.
• Integrate data as an asset: Influence the design operational and analytical data architectures and integration strategies.
• Leverage strategic partnerships: Maintains relationships with strategic technology vendors. Engages with vendors to understand strategic offerings and alignment with NBME's future requirements and roadmaps.

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills and Abilities

• Exceptional leadership abilities with high emotional intelligence, ability to influence staff, and who knows when to hold firm and when to be flexible.
• Skilled relationship builder and collaborator who effectively uses influence and persuasion in leading others to achieve balanced, optimized goals. 
• Effective communicator and presenter enabling collaboration within IT and across business units.
• Applies modern enterprise architecture practices (e.g., capability modeling, domain-driven design, lean architecture) with proficiency in cloud computing and emerging technologies.
• Ability to analyze complex systems and provide strategic solutions.
• Expert in defining a comprehensive technology strategy and vision to optimize business applications and reduce risks.
• Financial acumen.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing secure architectures that align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.

Experience

• 8+ years of managerial experience.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Advanced degree desired.

One or more of the following certifications strongly preferred:

• TOGAF Certified
• Certified Information Systems Architect (CISA)
• Zachman certified Enterprise Architect
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

These are valuable certifications for this role but not required:

• Certified SAFe® Architect (ARCH)
• ICAgile ICP-ARC (Agile Architecture)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

About NBME

NBME is a not-for-profit organization that specializes in the creation of assessments and learning tools for physicians and health professionals. Our mission is to advance assessment of these professionals to achieve optimal care for all, supporting the development of a highly effective, diverse and compassionate health care workforce.

Founded in 1915, NBME develops and manages the United States Medical Licensing Examination® with the Federation of State Medical Boards. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of assessment products for every stage of the medical school journey and provide assessment services to various health profession organizations.

We are dedicated to advancing innovative assessment approaches through research, collaboration and contributions to the medical education and assessment communities. In 2024, we expanded our assessment capabilities to include simulation through the acquisition of MedVR Education.

Learn more on NBME's website.

NBME's Community Collaborations and Contributions

NBME believes that a key path to meeting our mission is collaborating with and supporting our communities. Our Community Collaborations and Contributions programs provide resources and recognition to medical educators and researchers advancing the field of assessment throughout their careers. In addition, we invest in fee assistance, scholarships and pathway programs to aid learners and help support increased representation in health care. Headquartered in Philadelphia, NBME also gives to local organizations that advance health equity and access and positively impact social determinants of health.

Compensation we are offering for this position is at $200,000 - $230,000/year. Please note that the offered rate for this position typically aligns with the minimum to midrange of this grade, but it can vary based on the successful candidate's qualifications and experience, department budget, and an internal equity review.

The NBME offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a rewarding work environment. Excellent Benefits include: Healthcare, Dental, Prescription, and Vision plans; 401(k) w/match, Tuition Reimbursement Plan, Commuter Benefit: Public Transit or Parking options. Remote Friendly Workplace.

NBME is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.