
Distinguished Enterprise Architect
Rochester, MN · HybridFull-time$185–278K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
Mayo Clinic seeks a Distinguished Enterprise Architect to set strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technical direction within a strategic technology specialty. The role advises architecture leadership and senior executives on enterprise-wide decisions, resolves unprecedented challenges, and guides long-term technology choices. It also mentors technical leaders and represents Mayo Clinic in strategic engagements. This is a hybrid position located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Why Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans (https://jobs.mayoclinic.org/benefits/) – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.
Benefits Highlights
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Medical: Multiple plan options.
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Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
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Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
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Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
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Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.
Responsibilities
This is a hybrid position and must be located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus for occasional on-site expectations based on business needs.
The Enterprise Architecture organization is seeking a Distinguished Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise-wide architecture leadership for strategic initiatives and complex technology challenges. This role serves as a trusted advisor to Architecture leadership and senior executives and is responsible for helping define enterprise strategy, target-state direction, standards, technical doctrine, and multi-year direction within a strategic technology specialty. The Distinguished Enterprise Architect provides expertise on decisions and challenges with enterprise-wide impact and helps guide technology choices that have long-term organizational implications.
The Distinguished Enterprise Architect establishes specialty strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technical direction while helping resolve complex challenges that span organizational and technology boundaries. Through strategic advisory work, technology evaluation, architecture governance, and collaboration with executive leadership, this role helps shape long-term enterprise technology direction. The Distinguished Enterprise Architect also mentors architects and senior technical leaders, contributes to architecture excellence across the organization, and represents Mayo Clinic in strategic engagements with vendors, research collaborators, standards organizations, and professional communities.
The Distinguished Enterprise Architect is an individual contributor appointed for exceptional and recognized expertise in a named strategic technology or architecture specialty. The role sets enterprise specialty strategy, technical doctrine, target-state direction, standards, and precedent; solves unprecedented or systemic problems; and advises Architecture leadership and senior executives on decisions with enterprise-wide and multi-year consequences. Distinguished is a cross-cutting technical-authority overlay rather than routine ownership of a portfolio, platform operating backlog, or governance service.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or other relevant degrees and 15 years of relevant technology experience required. Master's degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or other relevant degree and demonstrated architecture or technical leadership as a Principal, Chief, Distinguished, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority preferred.
TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner or TOGAF 9 Certified certification is required within 12 months of employment. TOGAF EA Leader credential is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience with the following:
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Defining enterprise-wide technology and architecture strategy.
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Developing standards, reference architectures, and technical guidance.
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Leading complex cross-organizational technology initiatives.
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Advising senior executives on technology direction, risk, and investment decisions.
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Evaluating emerging technologies and guiding adoption decisions.
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Solving highly complex technical and architectural challenges.
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Building alignment across multiple technology domains and stakeholder groups.
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Mentoring architects and senior technical leaders.
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Representing an organization in strategic vendor, research, and professional engagements.
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Demonstrated technical experience along with demonstrated architecture or technical leadership as a Principal, Chief, Distinguished, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority.
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TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner or TOGAF 9 Certified credential required within the required timeframe; TOGAF EA Leader credential preferred.
Authorization to work and remain in the United States, without necessity for Mayo Clinic sponsorships now, or in the future (for example, be a U.S. Citizen, national, or permanent resident, refugee, or asylee). Mayo Clinic does not participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.
Exemption Status
Exempt
Compensation Detail
$185,244 - $277,867 / year
Benefits Eligible
Yes
Schedule
Full Time
Hours/Pay Period
80
Schedule Details
Monday - Friday; Normal business hours. This is a hybrid position and must be located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus for occasional on-site expectations based on business needs.
International Assignment
No
Site Description
Just as our reputation has spread beyond our Minnesota roots, so have our locations. Today, our employees are located at our three major campuses in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, Jacksonville, Florida, Rochester, Minnesota, and at Mayo Clinic Health System campuses throughout Midwestern communities, and at our international locations. Each Mayo Clinic location is a special place where our employees thrive in both their work and personal lives. Learn more about what each unique Mayo Clinic campus has to offer, and where your best fit is. (https://jobs.mayoclinic.org/alllocations)
Equal Opportunity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Learn more about the "EOE is the Law" (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) . Mayo Clinic participates in E-Verify (https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf) and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
Recruiter
Miranda Grabner
Equal opportunity
As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer Mayo Clinic is committed to creating an inclusive environment that values the diversity of its employees and does not discriminate against any employee or candidate. Women, minorities, veterans, people from the LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply to join our teams. Reasonable accommodations to access job openings or to apply for a job are available.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,158 open Enterprise Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$185–278K/yr
- Minnesota median$142–235K/yr38 salary ranges
- US median$142–235K/yr1,766 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $232K, is 20% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($192K) — in the top quarter of Enterprise Architect salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 44 open Enterprise Architect jobs in Minnesota and 2,158 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Travelers Insurance Company5 open
- Accenture4 open
- Mayo Clinic (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Enterprise Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 10 years, across 1,884 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 684 of the 2,158 open Enterprise Architect jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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