
Senior IT Director – Enterprise Architecture
Medtronic
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Minneapolis • California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $206,400 - $309,600 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architectureapplication developmentsolution designtechnical architecturebusiness capability modelingvalue stream alignmentcloud architecturedata integrationsecurity architecturearchitectural governance
Soft Skills
people leadershiprelationship managementcommunicationorganizational savvyinfluencenavigating complexitydriving consensusstrategic thinkingcollaborationexecution