**Why join Stryker?**:
Our total rewards package offering includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.
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**Who we Want**:
**Dedicated achievers**. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
**Strong communicator** **- People who can communicate with stakeholders in different positions and translate feedback and information to actionable achievable goals.
**Analytical problem solvers**. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
**Goal-oriented**: Keeping the customer and requirements squarely in focus, people who deliver safe and robust solutions.
**Detail-oriented process improvers**. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.
**Job description**:
**What you will do**:
- Drive EA strategy and planning guidance within IT project/solution activity to ensure understanding and adherence to EA principles and business / IT objectives; provide strategic guidance and cross-functional alignment within EA assessment and governance activity accordingly
- Perform EA assessment activity to ensure EA principles are properly represented and enforced within IT solutions; manage and mitigate any risk associated with architectural conflicts vs. principles or strategies
- Develop and maintain E2E architectural design documentation that accurately and comprehensively represents current and target-state landscape information while informing upstream/downstream integration points within and across the ecosystem
- Identify cross-functional architectural collision points and synergy opportunities across IT demand and active projects to ensure technology investments adhere to global strategies while risk is proactively mitigated; work with demand owners & project teams as needed to mitigate & resolve
- Drive the coordination, alignment and communication of architectural design strategies and decisions across EA, Portfolio Project Management (PPM), Delivery, and Business Partner (BP) teams to ensure proper understanding of impact, risk, and benefit with proper business context
- Partner with EA strategy and planning stakeholders to perform analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and risk while recommending solutions for improvement
- Leverage institutional EA toolsets and systems to capture & maintain EA landscape/information updates stemming from solution-related design and governance activity; represent & enforce respective operating procedures needed to drive consistency of tool usage
- Lead the development, sustainment, and ongoing improvement of functional capabilities, best practices, processes, and operating procedures associated with EA design and governance; manage respective continuous improvement roadmaps and performance objectives accordingly
- Represent Enterprise Architecture design & governance input within M&A activity to ensure inherited platforms are properly assessed, disposed, and executed with respect for EA strategic objectives and standards; track the execution of target M&A objectives to ensure realization of outcomes
- 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
- Maintain regular status updates with IT and EA leadership, guiding the team through problem definition, issue mitigation and work plans, and roadmap development using problem solving principles
- Contribute towards EA performance measurement through the definition of key performance indicator (KPI) targets, status tracking of KPI progress associated with IT solution activity, and performance reporting
**What you need**:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or General Business (or equivalent) required
- Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Information Technology, Application/Technology Management, Portfolio Management, IT Governance, and/or Enterprise Architecture focus
- Experience supporting human resources, corporate marketing, corporate finance, legal and compliance business domains
- Knowledge of EA methodologies, e.g. TOGAF, FEAF, or Zachman framework
- Experience in all phases of an established SDLC methodology
- Experience of building an Information Security system and control framework within a complex, global, federated organization including staffing, controls and financial / budgetary aspects.
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization structure with significant emphasis on collaboration and pe