Posting Date
10/02/2026
2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America
The Sr. Director is responsible for providing strategic vision, transformational leadership, and technical oversight for the Solution Architecture program at DaVita. This role drives the day-to-day leadership of the Solution Architecture team, ensuring that all technical designs are robust, scalable, secure, and tightly aligned with the strategic goals of the enterprise.
Acting as a key evangelist and bridge between enterprise architecture, product teams, and business stakeholders, this leader guides digital transformation initiatives and modern platform scaling. They are pivotal in shifting the organization from legacy paradigms to modern, composable architectures, championing “AI-first” and agentic workflows, and establishing rigorous “buy vs. build” frameworks to reduce redundancy, drive innovation, and improve patient outcomes.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Strategic Vision, Transformation & Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and evolve the solution architecture disciplines. Manage the health of the team including coaching, performance reviews, recruiting, and development. Establish KPIs to measure team efficiency and architectural impact on business agility. Cultivate a culture of continuous learning and architectural evangelism.
- Composable Solution Architecture & Design: Develop the overall architectural vision that underlies projected solutions. Ensure delivery of high-quality logical and physical designs that align with Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and business requirements. Champion composable architecture paradigms to create modular, interchangeable business capabilities.
- Buy vs. Build & Ecosystem Optimization: Lead rigorous “buy vs. build” evaluations for new initiatives, taking into consideration Enterprise Architecture policies and guardrails. Actively identify opportunities to reduce technology redundancy, optimize technical debt, and leverage commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) or SaaS solutions to accelerate speed-to-market.
- Business Alignment & Cross-Stakeholder Scaling: Partner closely with product engineering, platform leaders, product owners, and executive leadership to translate highly complex technical strategies into actionable blueprints. Act as a trusted advisor who bridges the gap between technical concepts and measurable business ROI.
- AI-First Modernization & Agentic Workflows: Drive the modernization of legacy thinking by infusing AI-driven capabilities and agentic workflows into solution designs. Design patterns for autonomous, AI-augmented systems that enhance operational efficiency and clinical decision-support.
- Practice Maturation & Agile Governance: Mature the Solution Architecture practice by defining policies, procedures, patterns, and standards. Chair or actively participate in the Solution Architecture Review Board (SARB) to ensure governance, security, and adherence to enterprise guidance without bottlenecking agile delivery.
- Innovation, Emerging Technologies & Customer Journey: Research changing trends in technology, data architectures, and vendor ecosystems. Champion the adoption of next-generation capabilities (e.g., Generative AI, machine learning, cloud-native ecosystems, event-driven architectures), ensuring maximum ROI, agility, and competitive advantage. Support digital strategy, identify product line digital opportunities, map customer journeys, and seamlessly introduce new technologies.
- IT Portfolio Modernization & Roadmapping: Support Product Line Managers (PLMs) in the development and maintenance of comprehensive product roadmaps. Actively support IT portfolio modernization by managing cross-product line (Cross-PL) current and future-state architectures and driving technical debt reduction.
- Other Duties as Assigned
Education and Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline required. (Master’s degree or relevant advanced industry certifications preferred).
- Leadership Experience: Minimum of 5–7 years of experience directly managing and developing high-performing, matrixed technology or architecture teams in agile/product-driven environments. Proven track record of transformational leadership.
- Technical Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of experience in an Information Technology architecture or technical capacity, with at least 5 years designing modern, cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure). Hands-on experience with API-led connectivity, microservices, DevOps/DevSecOps practices, and operationalizing AI/ML solutions would be preferred.
- Strategic Architecture Skills: Deep expertise in guiding “buy vs. build” strategies, implementing composable business architectures (e.g., Gartner’s PACE-layered application strategy), and designing agentic AI systems. Proficiency with modern Enterprise Architecture management and modeling tools (e.g., LeanIX) to drive architectural visibility and governance.
- Industry Knowledge: Deep technical knowledge and broad healthcare industry experience that fosters prompt analysis of requirements, regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA), and alignment to common healthcare interoperability standards. Must possess a strong understanding of relevant healthcare technology vendor products and how to build a seamlessly connected, interoperable ecosystem.
Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
- Preferred: TOGAF, AWS/GCP/Azure Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), or equivalent enterprise architecture certifications.
Travel and Time Requirements
Additional Requirements
- Language Skills: Fluent in the written and verbal skills necessary to successfully perform the essential functions, duties, and responsibilities of the position.
- ADA/Reasonable Accommodations: DaVita provides reasonable accommodations to enable otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential Physical and/or Mental functions of a position.
- Work Environment: Level III – Moderate noise (e.g., business office with computers or printers, light traffic). No required tasks involve greater exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues than would be encountered by a visitor. The normal work routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluids or other hazardous conditions.
- Visual: Vision adequate to perform the essential duties/responsibilities of position. May be required to demonstrate the ability to differentiate colors on a test strip.
- Physical Demands: Physical requirements can vary. These must be reviewed with management. However, in general, the position requires the following activities:
- Ability to lift minimum of 5 lbs to a max of 50 lbs unassisted and able to stand, sit, stoop, walk, stretch, reach, and use full range of body motions.
- Manual dexterity as required for specific equipment and ability to use computer keyboard and peripherals.
What We’ll Provide:
More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.
- Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
- Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
- Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
This position will be open for a minimum of three days.
The Salary Range for the role is $148,000.00 - $234,000.00 per year.
Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits
Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
