Principal EDT Enterprise Architect (Remote)
Stryker
Summary
As a Principal EDT Enterprise Architect, you will set direction for Instruments & Customer Solutions and is accountable for the quality and consistency of its architecture outcomes. The role acts as a recognized authority, solves the highest-complexity problems in its scope, and defines patterns and priorities that others adopt. The role connects strategy to execution across products, platforms, data, AI, integration, cloud, digital customer experience, and operational capabilities, while balancing division speed with enterprise scale, reuse, security, compliance, and long-term sustainability.
Job description
What you will do
- Define enterprise architecture strategy, principles, technology patterns, and priorities that connect business objectives with scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions.
- Develop and maintain end-to-end current-state and target-state architecture designs, including applications, platforms, data flows, integrations, dependencies, and technology roadmaps.
- Identify architectural risks, technology overlaps, consolidation opportunities, and cross-functional dependencies, and lead teams toward solutions that improve reuse, scalability, security, and business value.
- Guide complex technology decisions across products, platforms, data, AI, cloud, integration, digital customer experiences, and commercial capabilities.
- Align business leaders, technology teams, delivery teams, and enterprise architects around architecture decisions, clearly communicating business impact, technical trade-offs, risks, and benefits.
- Lead architecture governance practices, standards, processes, documentation, and continuous improvement of roadmaps while driving consistent use of enterprise architecture tools.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and solution options to determine their fit with business strategy, enterprise standards, security requirements, and long-term technology direction.
- Monitor architecture performance, regulatory requirements, privacy standards, data retention requirements, audit considerations, and key performance indicators to identify risks and drive measurable improvements.
What you will need
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Information Systems or related field.
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience in Information Technology, application or technology management, portfolio management, IT governance, enterprise architecture, or a related technology discipline.
- Experience with Salesforce.com, ServiceMax, SAP S4/Hana
- Experience supporting commercial technology capabilities such as sales enablement, territory management, incentive compensation, channel management, field service, case management, or order-to-cash processes
- Experience working across the phases of an established software development lifecycle.
- Experience analyzing application portfolios to identify rationalization, consolidation, integration, or modernization opportunities.
Preferred
- Experience applying enterprise architecture methodologies or frameworks such as TOGAF, FEAF, or Zachman.
- Experience of building an Information Security system and control framework within a complex, global, federated organization including staffing, controls and financial / budgetary aspects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Information Systems or related field
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience in Information Technology, application or technology management, portfolio management, IT governance, enterprise architecture, or a related technology discipline
- Experience with Salesforce.com, ServiceMax, SAP S4/Hana
- Experience supporting commercial technology capabilities such as sales enablement, territory management, incentive compensation, channel management, field service, case management, or order-to-cash processes
- Experience working across the phases of an established software development lifecycle
- Experience analyzing application portfolios to identify rationalization, consolidation, integration, or modernization opportunities
- Experience applying enterprise architecture methodologies or frameworks such as TOGAF, FEAF, or Zachman
- Experience building an Information Security system and control framework within a complex, global, federated organization
Company overview
Stryker is a global leader in medical technology, founded in 1941 by Dr. Homer Stryker and headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As one of the world's premier medical device companies, Stryker operates across three major business segments: Medical and Surgical Equipment, Orthopaedics and Spine, and Neurotechnology. The company impacts more than 150 million patients annually through its innovative products and services sold in over 75 countries worldwide. With approximately 53,000 employees globally and annual sales of $22.6 billion in 2024, Stryker maintains a strong commitment to research and development, investing $1.5 billion in R&D annually. The company's diverse portfolio includes surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, neurovascular devices, endoscopic systems, and advanced digital healthcare solutions. Stryker is recognized for its Mako robotic-assisted surgery systems and has been consistently ranked as one of Fortune's World's Best Workplaces for eight consecutive years, demonstrating its commitment to corporate culture and employee development.