Director - Enterprise Architecture and Planning - Stryker - Kalamazoo

Job description
Stryker has a need for a Director of Enterprise Architecture and Planning to work in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neuro technology and spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives. Stryker products and services are available in over 100 countries.

The Director of Enterprise Architecture and Planning leads the definition of a high level enterprise-wide architecture focused on mapping IT capabilities to business needs. The position provides leadership direction and accountability for architectural approaches, documents current systems in the portfolio, and recommends how to proceed with its applications (replace, retire, maintain, enhance, etc.).

Key Responsibilities:
Lead the evaluation and documentation of current enterprise architecture
Lead analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
Incorporate SOA principles into enterprise architecture design, including identifying opportunities for common services and service reuse
Drive the activities to standardize processes and technology
Lead the efforts to develop, improve, validate, and use tools to facilitate enterprise architecture efforts
Define the construct to program flow charts to describe the processing of data and development of precise steps and processing logic across all platforms
Perform advisory role on complex projects
Develop and ensure compliance with architecture principles and standards for the various systems and components based on design patterns
Build relationships with key stakeholders and business partner
Propose model to define and document the EA roadmap
Identify early opportunities to establish architectural principals
Evaluate IT alignment with business needs per the IT portfolio; establish program for on-going assessment in this area
Establish set of architectural principles and program to ensure compliance across IT
Qualifications and Experience:
Knowledge of EA methodologies, e.g. TOGAF, FEAF, or Zachman framework
Expertise in SOA principles and technologies
Experience in all phases of an established SDLC methodology
Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
Experience of building an Information Security system and control framework within a complex, global, federated organization including staffing, controls and financial / budgetary aspects.
Strong understanding of best practices in information security design of Digital products and infrastructure, including cloud applications and hosting.
Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization structure with significant emphasis on collaboration and persuasion, rather than relying entirely on command and control.
Strong communication skills, ability to present complex concepts, risks and strategies to senior management in business terms, while being able to discuss detailed technical aspects with expert Enterprise Architecture and Information Technology teams.
Ability to recruit, manage and develop a high performing team of Enterprise Architect professionals.

Desired Skills and Experience
Basic Qualifications Include:
10+ years’ overall IT experience with at least 3 years’ experience leading Enterprise Architecture or Solutions Architecture Projects and teams
Proven Experience with 2 out of the following: Technology Standards, Application Portfolio Management, Business Capability Modeling
Responsible for owing technology standards
Ability to travel up to 30%
Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred Qualifications:
CISA, CISSP or CIA certification, but not required
Master’s degree in MIS, MBA, or related disciplines

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