Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Position summary: 

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture is a people leadership role focused on Stryker’s global IT operations, security, data and artificial intelligence (AI) architecture strategies including leading our Mergers and Acquisitions application rationalization. This is a highly visible, cross-functional role that will have both strategic and program-specific responsibilities. As an Enterprise Architecture leader, the role will be responsible for the development and oversight of a global technology strategy ensuring alignment between the business strategy and technology solutions and investments. The position requires the ability to synergize insights, objectives, and strategies across functions, regions or other silos, and blend that with strategies from our strategic vendors, emerging technology needs, and enterprise programs. In addition, the role will be accountable to identify, manage and monitor platform and technology risks. The ability to be influential and effective working with global and cross-functional teams is imperative.   

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architect will also be accountable for developing, managing, monitoring, and influencing our key metrics such as adherence and adoption to technology standards, redundancy reduction, and overall operating cost optimization.  

 

Essential duties and responsibilities: 

 

Strategic Alignment   

Create and align multi-year technology strategies that align with global and regional business and IT objectives, inclusive of decommissioning and rationalization plans, and dependency identification  

Translate business vision into end-to-end capability enablement across technologies; develop future state vision  

Identify and promote opportunities for business process and technology standardization or modernization  

Optimize the technology decision-making across the enterprise   

Analyze internal and external trends and incorporate into strategies  

Drive value through strategic technology vendors in partnership with supplier management  

Support or drive business case development and long-term financial impact from technology strategies  

 

Architecture design, governance, and compliance monitoring  

Develop comprehensive architectural blueprints across various domains   

Establish and monitor modern architecture policies, standards, and principles for the organization  

Establish and monitor architecture metrics including adoption, redundancy reduction, and cost reduction  

Measure impact of strategies with long-term financial analysis  

Ensure portfolio investments tie to overarching business and technology strategies  

Partner cross-functionally to drive operational efficiencies and process improvements  

Leverage reporting tools (Planview APM, PowerBi, etc.) to manage information and derive insights and reports  

Align architecture requirements with SDLC requirements  

Protect Stryker’s landscape driving secure, stable and scalable technology solutions   

 

Stakeholder Engagement  

Work in a highly collaborative, global environment including stakeholders, management, and subject matter experts to develop and implement the technology strategy  

Facilitate needs analysis across multiple stakeholders  

Advise cross-functional teams and senior management on investments, risks, and opportunities that integrate functional or siloed strategies  

Communicate architecture strategies and key decisions in an effective way  

Responsible to educate and reinforce our organization around strategic vendors, architecture and harmonization principles  

 

Technology evaluation and mastery  

Perform industry research, complete project discovery, and manage RFx processes for new technology needs with cross-functional teams  

Get the best leverage out of our strategic vendors to deliver on our technology strategies  

Expertise in multiple enterprise infrastructure or security technologies including Microsoft Azure, Identify and Access Management tools (active directoyr, MS entra, okta), ServiceNow, SAP, other data clouds, or artificial intelligence (AI) architecture

People Leadership

Lead, mentor, coach, and develop high performing and global teams 

Education or special trainings:

Bachelor's degree required; equivalent years of relevant experience may be considered. A Master's degree in Management of Information Systems (MIS), Business Administration (MBA), or a related discipline is preferred.

 

Qualifications and experience: 

Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in technical or strategic roles  

Minimum of 8 years of experience in a management role  

Knowledge of enterprise systems, data architecture, integration strategies and security frameworks.  

•Knowledgeable of current and future technology direction of the industry and corporate and commercial domain areas  

Engaging leadership style, demonstrated ability to develop and grow teams  

Strong and demonstrated ability to develop partnerships and trust across an organization  

Understanding of EA frameworks such as TOGAF, FEAF, or Zachman Framework   

Demonstrated ability in driving a large strategy to transform a business and systems   

Knowledge of regulated application landscape in life sciences and current platforms and technologies  

Knowledge (5+ years) of medical devices and/or pharmaceutical or other regulated industry  

Ability to work effectively in a global and matrixed organization structure with significant emphasis on collaboration, influence, and conflict resolution  

Strong communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with leadership and technical teams  

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills  

High business acumen and effective negotiation approaches  

ITIL foundational knowledge  

Strong organizational and project management acumen to deliver multiple priorities at once  

Strong understanding of application and vendor lifecycle management including the RFx processes   

Strong understanding of IT application contracts and license models   

Strong business and financial acumen to develop strategies for negotiation and business cases/ROI  

Demonstrated management of risks and dependencies  

High acumen in all phases of SDLC framework, and familiarity with Agile frameworks  

Demonstrated understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles  

Business process mapping and business process improvement skills  

Demonstrated experience in multiple infrastructure operations, security and/or data roles 

Expertise in multiple enterprise infrastructure or security technologies including Microsoft Azure, Identify and Access Management tools (active directoyr, MS entra, okta), ServiceNow, SAP, other data clouds, or artificial intelligence (AI) architecture

Travel Percentage: None

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

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