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 role at Baxter

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.

Senior Enterprise Architect for Healthcare Systems and Technologies

The Senior Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The Senior Enterprise Architect’s scope of activities 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 Tech Blueprinting, Capability Mapping, Benchmarking, and Technology Strategy & Research to develop overall Enterprise Architecture recommendations aligned to Baxter and Enterprise Architecture technology standards and governance.

What you'll be doing

• Through collaboration with Business Relationship Managers, and Manufacturing Relationship Managers align and optimize Healthcare Systems and Technologies (HST) business capabilities and processes to IT Strategy.  Including capturing and managing demands from the HST segment, identifying segment priorities through EA Domains and value stream mapping to support key objectives, and establishing segment-level strategic blueprints for the future.
• Rationalization of existing technologies and business applications including the identification of opportunities for consolidation, quantification of cost-savings, simplification, and management of actions to achieve.
• Support, comply with, and adapt policies and governance as aligned to technology risk and architecture.
• Maintain the alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects, and products as they evolve over time.
• Facilitate 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.
• Lead and facilitate interaction and conversations with business & IT leaders including with software developers about connected and digital products over the risks and implications of product decisions to the overall enterprise, business segment, and division.
• Develop and apply minimal viable architectures, which can include sets of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is advised by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarify accountability and provide the focal point for agile, effective, and efficient decision making.
• Facilitate a cohesive relationship across the architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing degrees of freedom for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries to ensure success.
• Collaborate and communicate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is vital to modify the enterprise architecture or infrastructure standards.
• Collaborate with global EA core team to ensure the application portfolio data are up to date for the HST segment.
• Handle 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, innovation and corresponding architecture.
• Lead 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.
• Scan new technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and non-technology trends (trend spotting) bringing them forward for future consideration, for innovation and to prove-out through Proof of Concepts and minimally viable prototypes (MVPs).

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
• Minimum of 10 years of architecture or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with technology vendors.
• Broad expertise in healthcare, connected technology and digital and connected product solutions.
• Knowledge of IT and Architecture governance and operations, enterprise integration technologies, and architectural patterns including composability and UI/UX.
• Experience in architecture principles, practices and models including Business Capability models.
• Broad expertise in Infrastructure, Cloud and Network services.
• Experience implementing new technologies into enterprise environments.
• Ability to explain sophisticated technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand.

The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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