Principal Enterprise Architect, Corporate Functions (Hybrid) - New Jersey, Allendale 2 Pearl Ct

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

As the Principal Enterprise Architect, Corporate Functions you will drive all architectural strategy and planning activities across the Corporate Function domains (including Finance, HR, Legal & Compliance, Corporate Affairs). You will be accountable for assessing business capabilities, defining technology & platform strategies, developing strategic roadmaps, and guiding End-to-End architectural solution approaches in alignment with corporate business and IT objectives.

Who we want

Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

Business-oriented evaluators. People who effectively interpret information to demonstrate the effects of business initiatives, regulation and industry trends for sales, management, and leadership teams.

Subject matter experts. Managers who not only oversee the collection, review, and analysis of data but can interpret, translate, and present on all various matters as needed.

Network builders. Managers who build connections with other teams and divisions and coordinate cross-functional collaboration to drive outcomes.

What you will do

• Assess business capabilities across the in-scope corporate business units, including how capabilities are enabled by technology usage, along with evaluating capability importance, impact, 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 corporate capabilities; 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 across the corporate business, including functional redundancy, standards adoption, technical risk, and decommissioning; lead road mapping 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 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.
• 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.
• Drive Enterprise Architecture activity associated with M&A efforts in partnership with other EA stakeholders, including (but not limited to) assessment and disposition analysis for platform migrations, the updating of E2E architecture reference materials, and the integration of new applications portfolios to Stryker information and tool repositories.
• 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.
• Monitor regulatory guidelines (such as privacy laws), compliance-related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact and resolution guidance on enterprise information architecture.

What you need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Management, or equivalent field of study required.
• Master’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Licenses or certifications related TOGAF, ITIL, EA is preferred.
• 8+ years of IT experience in Enterprise Architecture or other related business/technology architecture discipline; driving alignment between tech strategies and business objectives required.
• 5+ years of experience and demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Governance and Enterprise Architecture functions required.
• Experience working with third party IT vendors and/or IT system solution providers required.
• Experience working with Enterprise Architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF or Zachman required.
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies and IaaS, SaaS and PaaS solutions from selection to implementation perspective required.
• Experience establishing and maintaining technology governance required.
• Demonstrated experience in Provider and sourcing Management, experience in ITIL-based Services required.
• Experience documenting complex processes and presenting them in a clear and understandable format and the required changes required.
• Experience in design, analysis, integrations and planning of software solution required.
• Experience in ISO 56K implementation and its allied process framework preferred.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

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