NETWORK ARCHITECT

MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT OCHIN

OCHIN is a rapidly growing national nonprofit health IT organization with two decades of experience transforming health care delivery to drive health equity. We are hiring for a number of new positions to meet increasing demand. When you choose to join OCHIN, you have the opportunity to continuously grow your skills and do meaningful work to help fulfill our mission.

OCHIN provides leading-edge technology, data analytics, research, and support services to nearly 1,000 community health care sites, reaching nearly 6 million patients nationally. We believe that every individual, no matter their race, ethnicity, background, or zip code, should have fair opportunity to achieve their full health potential. Our work addresses differences in health that are systemic, avoidable, and unjust. We partner, learn, innovate, and advocate, in order to close the gap in health for individuals and communities negatively impacted by racism or other structural inequities.

At OCHIN, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of every individual and work hard to maintain a culture of belonging.

Founded in Oregon in 2000, OCHIN employs a growing virtual workforce of more than 800 diverse professionals, working remotely across 46 states. We offer a generous compensation package and are committed to supporting our employees' entire well-being by fostering a healthy work-life balance and equitable opportunity for professional advancement. We are curious, collaborative learners who strive to live our values everyday: leadership, collaboration, excellence, innovation, inclusion, and stewardship. OCHIN is excited to support our continued national expansion and the increasing demand for our innovative tools and services by welcoming new talent to our growing team.

Position Overview

The Network Architect is responsible for developing, enhancing, maintaining and troubleshooting network infrastructure related hardware, operating systems, firewalls, configuration changes, system performance, and other technologies as described below. Architectural design work includes placement and specification of servers, routers, switches, firewall, remote access systems and network management systems. Provides technical assistance and mentoring to other team members and customers.

Essential Duties

• Design and develop complex networking architecture to support existing and future connectivity with OCHIN and members to support continued growth.
• Proactively examine current networking architecture to identify areas of improvement.
• Determine technical strategy, framework, and tools to support networking architectures.
• Assist with technical escalations as needed to support the team, Epic EMR, and other integrations as required.
• Act as a consultant to team regarding design and support as needed by OCHIN leadership.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise to solve for both internal and external networking needs.
• Provide support and leadership for new and evolving network technologies across the team in order to meet requirements for strategic plans, projects, and rapid growth.
• Responsible for defining OCHIN's network architectural strategies and processes.
• Make network architectural and design decisions to ensure long-term supportability.
• Provide primary oversight on scoping and identifying network requirement.
• Scope, create, and document network architectural designs and proactively review, revise, and improve existing ones.
• Attend and lead calls as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and OCHIN's representative and work with vendors to assess and review technical scoping requirements and solutions; participate in design and scoping sessions.
• Provide technical mentorship to the OCHIN teams from scoping to designing to ensure the detailed specifications from Members, or OCHIN will be configured to meet the operational need as well as fulfill OCHIN's vision.
• Ensures the network and system architectures are in synchronization.
• Act as an ambassador and liaison between the teams that own different components of the overall architecture to ensure cross-functionality and efficient development of the system.
• Will provide guidance and support for documentation.
• Provides expert level networking support to members and OCHIN team members.
• Ability to provide high level project analysis and planning.
• May take on a lead role in medium to large projects that may include:
• Design, analysis and implementation, along with supporting the overall business and project plan by identifying and providing deliverables, assisting project managers on tracking key decision points and technical timelines.
• Works as a key team member to ensure the project or team performance & outcomes are met relative to established project goals and measurements.
• Assists the project manager in identifying risk.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple networking sources and vendors, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree (equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered)
• Cisco CCNP certification is required
• 10-15 years of Network Engineer/Sr Network Engineer or Network Architect experience
• Innovative, shows initiative, and is accountable
• Healthcare IT experience required
• Experience working in security administration required
• Demonstrated understanding of networking including routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP
• Proficient with configuration and management of FortiGate firewalls and SD-WAN
• Proficient with configuration and management of the Citrix NetScaler platform
• Proficient with configuration and management of Cisco IOS based routers
• Proficient with configuration and management of Palo Alto PanOS firewalls
• Strong documentation and communication skills regarding technical requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

To keep our colleagues, members, and communities safe, OCHIN requires all employees-including remote employees, contractors, interns, and new hires-to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, as supported by state and federal public health officials, as a condition of employment. All new hires are required to provide proof of full vaccination or receive approval for a medical or religious exemption before their hire date.

Work Location and Travel Requirements

OCHIN is a 100% remote organization with no physical corporate office location. Employees work remotely from home and many of our positions also support our member organizations on-site for new software installations. Nationwide travel is determined based on OCHIN business needs. Please inquire during the interview process about travel requirements for this position.

Work from home requirements are:

• Ability to work independently and efficiently from a home office environment
• High Speed Internet Service
• It is a requirement that employees work in a distraction free workplace
• Travel up to 15% could be necessary on occasion

We offer a comprehensive range of benefits. See our website for details: https://ochin.org/employment-openings

Equal Opportunity Statement

OCHIN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills for the benefit of our staff, our mission, and the communities we serve.

As an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, OCHIN, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital or civil union status, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristics. All aspects of employment are based on merit, performance, and business needs.

Base Pay Overview

The typical offer range for this role is minimum to midpoint (min-$108,701 mid-$141,311), with the midpoint representing the average pay in a national market scope for this position. Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will consider a wide range of factors directly relevant to this position, including, but not limited to, skills, knowledge, training, responsibility, and experience, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.