Senior IT Director Enterprise Architecture Practice
MedtronicAbout the role
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Role Overview
The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for leading and maturing the Enterprise Architecture practice across the enterprise. This role provides strategic direction, governance, and architectural leadership to ensure technology investments are aligned with business strategy, enable innovation, reduce complexity, and deliver long-term enterprise value.
This leader owns enterprise-wide architecture vision, standards, governance, and current and future state roadmaps across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains. The role requires a seasoned architecture leader who operates as a trusted advisor to senior IT and business leadership, drives architectural discipline at scale, and influences outcomes across a complex, global organization.
This role also owns the Enterprise Business Architecture capability, including business capability models, value streams, and end-to-end process architectures. Business Architecture serves as a foundational input to enterprise strategy, investment decisions, transformation roadmaps, and landscape rationalization efforts.
In addition, this role is accountable for looking holistically across the enterprise to formulate and drive strategies for large-scale landscape rationalization and technical debt reduction, and for acting as a driving force toward the execution and realization of those strategies in partnership with IT and business leaders.
Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Architecture, Global Functions and SAP COE, this role establishes Enterprise Architecture as a strategic capability that enables speed, simplification, resilience, and disciplined transformation across the enterprise.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Vision
- Define and drive the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and strategic direction aligned with business strategy and enterprise priorities
- Own and maintain enterprise-wide current state and future state architecture roadmaps across business, application, data, integration, and technology layers
- Collaborate with IT Value Stream leadership and Business Unit leadership to shape enterprise-wide transformation initiatives and ensure architectural coherence
- Drive rationalization and simplification of enterprise platforms, processes, and capabilities to maximize the value of enterprise assets
Business Architecture Leadership
- Own and mature the Enterprise Business Architecture discipline across the organization
- Define and maintain enterprise business capability models, value streams, and end-to-end process architectures
- Partner with business and IT leadership to align business strategy, operating models, and technology roadmaps
- Use business architecture to guide portfolio prioritization, investment decisions, and transformation sequencing
- Ensure business architecture informs enterprise landscape rationalization and technical debt reduction strategies
- Establish business architecture standards, methods, and governance integrated with enterprise architecture practices
Enterprise Landscape Rationalization and Technical Debt Reduction
- Establish a comprehensive enterprise-wide view of the application, data, integration, and technology landscape
- Identify duplication, fragmentation, aging platforms, and sources of technical debt across the enterprise
- Formulate multi-year strategies and roadmaps for application rationalization, platform consolidation, and technical debt reduction
- Partner with IT and business leaders to embed rationalization and technical debt reduction into transformation programs, roadmaps, and investment planning
- Act as a driving force to ensure rationalization and technical debt strategies translate into funded execution and realized outcomes
- Track progress, measure benefits, and continuously refine strategies to ensure sustained enterprise impact
Architecture Standards, Governance,
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