Principal Enterprise Architect, EMEA, LATAM, Canada

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The Principal Enterprise Architect, EELC drives all enterprise architectural strategy and planning activity across the international Commercial business regions of Europe, LATAM, Canada, and EEMEA. This role is accountable for assessing business capabilities, defining technology & platform strategies, developing strategic roadmaps, and guiding End to End architectural solution approaches in alignment with Commercial business and IT objectives. This role will leverage enterprise strategies, plans, and standards to influence the advancement of architectural outcomes through investment planning and guide all solution-related architectural governance in partnership with other cross- functional EA, IT, and business stakeholders.

Opportunities & benefits that the role offers

Being part of the Enterprise Architecture team can offer numerous benefits, both professionally and personally. Some of these benefits may include:

• Business & Technical Acumen : This role represents how technology enables our business through capabilities, strategy, and planning; accordingly, you will represent the business articulation of our technology landscape and strategies to evolve it over time
• Communication Skills : As the enterprise liaison of our EELC architecture, you will collaborate across business and technical teams while developing strong communication skills, both written and verbal, which are essential in any career path.
• Problem-Solving Abilities : Architectural decision making often involves troubleshooting and finding creative solutions to complex technical and business problems, honing your problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
• Networking Opportunities : You'll have the chance to interact with professionals across different departments and possibly with external partners or clients, expanding your professional network.
• Job Satisfaction : Contributing to the effective communication of IT initiatives and projects can be rewarding, especially when you see the positive impact on the organization's operations and efficiency.
• Continuous Learning : The field of IT is constantly evolving, offering opportunities for ongoing learning and professional development to stay updated with the latest technologies and communication strategies.
• Creativity : Developing engaging communication strategies to convey technical information in a clear and understandable manner requires creativity, allowing you to exercise and enhance this skill.
• Job Stability : With the increasing reliance on technology in organizations, roles in Enterprise Architecture are likely to remain in high demand, providing a level of job stability.

Overall, being an Enterprise Architect can offer a dynamic and fulfilling career path with opportunities for growth, learning, and making a meaningful impact within the organization.

Is this you?

You have at least 10 years of work experience in Enterprise Architecture or other business / IT architectural discipline.

You speak Fluent English A key part of this role will be to work with international stakeholders across the world.

You have a bachelor's degree the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Management, or equivalent field of study.

You are familiar working with architectural and IT frameworks such as TOGAF, ITIL or other related industry certifications.

You have experience working around commercial business capabilities such as marketing, sales order management, customer relationship management, and service management.

You love a challenge A self-started who has a high degree of situational awareness and ability to navigate complex issues and channels to successfully deliver solutions in partnership with business and IT leadership teams.

You Build Relationships You have strong interpersonal skills. You can successfully and effectively work in a global team and collaborate with colleagues across Stryker.

You do the Right Thing You have a high level of integrity, responsibility, discipline, and attention to detail.

What will you do at Stryker?

• Assess in-scope business capabilities, including evaluating impact/importance, technology enablement, performance, and health.
• Develop strategies that align business goals & objectives to architectural plans that enable the realization of them; recommend investment strategies and scenarios that maximize advancement of defined plans within funding constraints.
• Maintain representation and planning around enterprise technology standards across the in-scope international regions; drive advancement of standards adoption opportunities through planning and solution governance; monitor & mitigate risk associated with continued investment in non-standards.
• Identify and facilitate planning around architectural opportunities and risks that exist within the in-scope international regions, including functional redundancy, standards adoption, technical risk, and decommissioning; lead roadmapping activity to address and mitigate, respectively.
• Partner with other architects & delivery stakeholders to guide end-to-end architectural strategy and governance within project/program solutions; manage & resolve any risks that arise regarding delivery to strategy & plan.
• Develop and maintain architectural reference materials (e.g. Data Flow Diagrams, Business Information Models, etc... ) that demonstrate current and target-state architectural constructs & plans.
• Develop roadmaps and plans to account for all transitionary elements needed to achieve target-state architectural objectives; support functional and delivery teams through efforts to properly account for and align plans with investment planning processes.
• Conduct active monitoring and assessment of technical health and risk stemming from underlying technology layers (data, network, and server) that link the E2E value stream, while driving respective mitigation and roadmap planning efforts to address.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in emerging technology activity in alignment with Innovation practices across Global IT and business forums; including support and participation in industry trending, POC (proof of concepts) activities, and research/assessment activity associated with new vendors, capabilities, and technology strategies.
• Ensure the ongoing maintenance and quality of Application Portfolio Management (APM) information across the Commercial domains.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with achieving target architectural outcomes on behalf of the Commercial domains; define plans/activity required to achieve KPI targets and represent progress/risks vs. KPI target achievement over time.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture within strategic review cadences, representing any EA landscape information, plan/roadmap status, and opportunity/risk profile associated with achievement of strategic objectives.

About Stryker

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