Senior Business Architect, Data Analytics

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. For more than 60 years, we have established a remarkable track record around that innovation: Work that enables clinicians around the world to enhance and save lives. This is an exciting opportunity within Edwards Lifesciences' IT organization. We are experiencing massive growth, and this is your opportunity to make a significant impact.

The ideal candidate should possess a combination of technical expertise, business acumen, and analytical skills. This role provides the candidate with a great opportunity to work with an amazing team and help the team achieve the mission to deliver actionable insights from data to the business. The selected candidate will not only have a critical role working with the stakeholders to capture requirements from the business on insights needed to make decisions but also design and architect comprehensive solutions that align with those requirements while prioritizing exceptional user experiences enabled through modern technology capabilities.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive and oversee gathering and analyzing of stakeholder requirements and architecting solutions to meet those requirements.
• Lead workshops with key business subject matter experts to turn ideas into tangible solutions through development of minimum viable product requirements (user stories), personas, and wireframes.

• Collaborating with multi-functional stakeholders to determine the best approach to test (POC/pilot) and design solutions that align to business strategy.
• Fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and improvement; advocating continuous team learning of portfolio assets, new technologies, and frameworks for analysis and consideration in new solutions
• Preparing, reviewing, and presenting complex written and verbal materials such as analyses, reports, findings, proposals, and systems training to senior stakeholder
• Prioritizing operational excellence and taking ownership and accountability over on-time and on-budget project outcomes while providing status updates, reporting metrics, and risk mitigations to senior stakeholders
• The desired candidate is passionate about technology and comfortable solving and reframing business problems using a design and consulting mindset. Additionally, they should be detail oriented, possess strong listening, verbal/written communication skills, and able to collaborate and supervise others.
• Guide definition, development and maintenance of data standards, policies, and practices; Guide the design of the data models, in alignment with the solution architecture, to ensure auditability of information assets.
• Work closely with and provide requirement specifications to other Data Architects, Data Engineers, ETL, and BI development team to support optimization of overall design.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science or related field
• Minimum of ten years of information technology experience )OR eight years with a Masters) and at least two years in Data and Analytics domain.
• A minimum of two years of experience in an architect role working with cross-functional teams (within IT and/or within the business) on enterprise-level or complex/novel system implementations.
• Experience in analytical database platforms and query languages (Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, T-SQL, PL/SQL)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a Product Owner in an Agile (Scrum) environment
• Experience with data modeling and related tools (Embarcadero, ERwin, DBArtisan, etc.)
• Experience working with data and data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, Cognos, Business Objects)
• Experience in life sciences/bio-tech/pharma
• Domain knowledge in finance, sales operations, manufacturing, and/or supply chain
• Experience working in ERP (e.g., JD Edwards, Coupa, Concur) and/or data warehouse projects (data warehouse, data mart etc..).
• Experience with enterprise data management technologies & platforms, including database platforms, ETL tools, Business Intelligence (BI) Tools, and SQL.
• Experience working specifically in the areas of data management, data governance, data quality management, or as a data steward.
• Versed in agile product delivery methods and related tools (e.g. Jira)
• Experience in a relevant industry experience (e.g., medical device, pharmaceuticals, etc.) or in highly regulated environments.

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs