IT Enterprise Architect
Danaher Corporation
Summary
The IT Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise-wide technology architecture to enable business strategy, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. This role provides architecture leadership across applications, data, integration, cloud, and AI platforms, ensuring coherent, future-proof decisions across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect acts as a strategic advisor to business and IT leaders, partners with Solution and Platform Architects, and serves as a key decision maker in architecture governance forums.
Job description
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Define and evolve enterprise architecture vision, principles, and target-state roadmaps across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders on technology investments, modernization options, and trade-offs.
- Provide architectural leadership for major programs and platform decisions, ensuring alignment to business strategy, risk posture, and technology standards.
- Establish and operate architecture governance (e.g., architecture review boards), including decision records, standards, reference architectures, and exceptions.
- Partner with business and IT leaders to translate strategic priorities into capability-based architectures and sequenced transformation plans.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, and improve interoperability and operability.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience in Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
- 7+ Years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform strategy within complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ability to create and govern standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional architectural decisions
- Strong communication skills, including ability to articulate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Ability to travel up to 25% for stakeholder engagement and site/program support
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Enterprise Architecture frameworks and modeling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, capability and process modeling)
- Experience with large-scale modernization and cloud transformation programs and in regulated industries and designing controls for security, privacy, and compliance.
- Experience integrating enterprise platforms (ERP/CRM), digital channels, and data/analytics ecosystems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience in Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
- 7+ Years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform strategy within complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ability to create and govern standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional architectural decisions
- Strong communication skills, including ability to articulate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
- Ability to travel up to 25% for stakeholder engagement and site/program support
Benefits
- Health care program
- Paid time off
Company overview
Danaher Corporation is a leading global science and technology innovator headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializing in biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. Founded in 1984 by brothers Steven and Mitchell Rales, the company has evolved from its origins as a manufacturing conglomerate into a premier healthcare technology organization with approximately 63,000 employees worldwide. Danaher operates through three core divisions: biotechnology (28% of revenues), which develops products for therapeutic development; life sciences (31% of revenues), focused on disease identification, new therapies, and drug testing/manufacturing; and diagnostics (41% of revenues), providing instruments, consumables, and software for disease diagnosis. The company's portfolio includes renowned brands such as Beckman Coulter, Cytiva, Pall Corporation, Cepheid, Leica Microsystems, and Abcam, serving pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, healthcare providers, and research institutions globally. Danaher is distinguished by its Danaher Business System (DBS), a continuous improvement methodology that drives innovation and operational excellence. With 2024 revenues of $23.9 billion, the company ranks 180th on the Fortune 500 and plays a critical role in advancing scientific research, improving diagnostic capabilities, and accelerating the development of life-saving therapies.