Senior Enterprise Architecture, Integrated Supply Chain, Quality & R&D

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world.

You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Team :

Nothing changes if nothing changes, which is why Baxter is transforming our global IT function into one that will strengthen partnerships and enable smarter, more efficient and connected business processes.

In the dynamic healthcare industry, we need to be ready to face new challenges and opportunities. As we learn, we must be agile and innovative to reveal new ways of working.

Technology and our digital capability will help create a more efficient and innovative ecosystem to enable our employees, customers and products to drive better outcomes for patients worldwide.

We are at the critical intersection where robust IT infrastructure and networking support meets the physicians, nurses and care givers who save and sustain lives.

Together, we can build upon Baxter’s rich heritage to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations.

Together, we can change how IT meets healthcare. Together, we are Baxter.

This is where technology fuels purpose-driven work. Where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role :

The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business and technology strategy, outcomes and capabilities.

The enterprise architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability.

You will be using techniques such as Technology Blueprinting, Capability Mapping, Benchmarking and Research to develop overall Enterprise Architecture recommendations, Baxter standards and governance thereby optimizing Baxter's technology implementation at the Enterprise-level. This role

What You'll Be Doing :

• Maintains the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities within the Enterprise Architecture practice across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a cohesive, encouraging and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business & IT leaders in a conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the business segment or function, division and the greater enterprise.
• Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is advised by the business strategy and corporate governance.

Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.

• Facilitates a cohesive relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
• Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, to manage technical debt as well as to identify when it is vital to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with global EA core team to ensure the application portfolio management data are accurate and up to date for the accountable domains.
• Handles the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to resolve their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
• Scans new technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and non-technology trends (trend spotting) that affect business.

What You'll Bring :

• Bachelor's degree in related field required (Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant field). Minimum of 10 years of architecture or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with technology vendors.
• Broad expertise in Integrated Supply Chain & Manufacturing solutions.
• Broad expertise in Infrastructure, Cloud and Network services.
• Knowledge of business domains. Experience in architecture models.
• Experience implementing new technologies into enterprise environments.
• Ability to explain sophisticated technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand.
• Knowledge of IT governance and operations.
• Enterprise Integration technologies and patterns.
30+ days ago