Hybrid Senior IT Director – Enterprise Architecture

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About the role

  • Senior IT Director responsible for Enterprise Architecture practice at Medtronic, shaping strategic technology directions and enabling enterprise-wide initiatives. Collaborating across IT and business units to streamline operations and enhance value realization.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Develop, maintain, and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and frameworks aligned with enterprise vision and strategy
  • Establish and operate an effective enterprise architecture governance model that balances agility and speed with architectural discipline
  • Provide architectural oversight and assurance for major programs, initiatives, and investments
  • Manage and mitigate architectural risks while ensuring adherence to security, privacy, and regulatory requirements

Requirements

  • 15 or more years with a Bachelor's degree of overall IT experience with a strong combination of application development, solution design, technical architecture, and enterprise architecture leadership
  • 13 or more years with a Graduate degree of overall IT experience with a strong combination of application development, solution design, technical architecture, and enterprise architecture leadership
  • Extensive experience leading enterprise architecture practices, including standards, governance, roadmaps, and architectural assurance
  • Demonstrated experience leading or establishing Business Architecture capabilities, including business capability modeling and value stream alignment
  • Proven people leader with experience leading senior architects and leaders across multiple domains and geographies
  • Strong background in modern enterprise architectures spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and application platforms
  • Experience delivering large-scale transformation initiatives with clear execution and outcome realization
  • Demonstrated ability to remain technology- and vendor-agnostic while guiding enterprise-wide decisions
  • Strong relationship management skills with the ability to influence senior IT and business leaders
  • Outstanding communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate architectural direction and value
  • Organizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate complexity and drive consensus-based outcomes
  • Experience operating in highly regulated industries
  • Experience with public cloud and hybrid enterprise architectures at scale
  • Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks, tools, and methodologies
  • Experience building and scaling architecture communities of practice
  • Track record of aligning architecture strategy to measurable business outcomes.

Benefits

  • Health, Dental and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Life insurance
  • Long-term disability leave
  • Dependent daycare spending account
  • Tuition assistance/reimbursement
  • Simple Steps (global well-being program)
  • Incentive plans
  • 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
  • Short-term disability
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
  • Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

Job title

Senior IT Director – Enterprise Architecture

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$206,400 - $309,600 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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