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Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Role Summary
This leadership role focuses on Stryker's global quality and operations technology landscape. It includes advanced operations, integrated business planning, logistics, manufacturing, product quality, and regulatory affairs, as well as procurement. The Senior Director, Enterprise Architect will also be accountable for identifying, managing, and monitoring platform and technology risks.
This leadership role focuses on Stryker's global quality and operations technology landscape. It includes advanced operations, integrated business planning, logistics, manufacturing, product quality, and regulatory affairs, as well as procurement. The Senior Director, Enterprise Architect will also be accountable for identifying, managing, and monitoring platform and technology risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Create multi-year technology strategies that align with global and regional business and IT objectives.
- 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.
- Establish and monitor modern architecture policies, standards, and principles for the organization.
- Measure the impact of strategies with long-term financial analysis.
- Partner cross-functionally to drive operational efficiencies and process improvements.
- Manage information and derive insights and reports.
- 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.
- Perform industry research, complete project discovery, and manage RFx processes for new technology needs with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Expertise in multiple enterprise technologies supporting global operations and quality such as SAP (IBP, MM, SCM, PP, FI), Ariba, Windchill, Apriso, Priysm, Demantra, analytics software, Trackwise, or others.
- Bachelor's degree required; A Master's degree in Management of Information Systems (MIS), Business Administration (MBA), or a related discipline is preferred.
- 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.
- Strong and demonstrated ability to develop partnerships and trust across an organization.
- 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 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.
- Business process mapping and business process improvement skills.
- Demonstrated experience in multiple roles across operations or quality including manufacturing, logistics, product quality, advanced operations, or procurement.
