Senior Director, Enterprise Architect - IT Operations, Security, and Data

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 expe