Sr. Architect, IT-Enterprise Architecture

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Your Team

The 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. Your scope of activities could 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 Research - develop overall Enterprise Architecture recommendations to align to Kidney EA 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 gathering 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 including the identification of opportunities for consolidation, cost-savings, and simplification, and management of actions to achieve.
• Identifies the enterprise business drivers and requirements that advance future state architecture capabilities
• Creates and enhances methods and practices for architecture strategy development,
  communication and visualization.
• Support and follow 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 with business & IT leaders in a conversation over the risks and implications of product decisions to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
• Develop and apply minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is advised by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective, and efficient decision making.
• Facilitates a cohesive relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
• Collaborate 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 the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is vital to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with global EA core team to ensure the application portfolio management data are up to date for the accountable EA domains.
• 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, and 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 innovative technology and non-technology trends (trend spotting) bringing them forward for future consideration and proving out.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
• 10+ years of architecture or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with technology vendors.
• Expertise in healthcare and connected technology solutions.
• Knowledge of business domains. Experience in architecture models.
• Broad expertise in Cybersecurity and Cloud best practices.
• Experience implementing new technologies into enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of IT governance and operations.
• Enterprise Integration technologies and patterns.
• Commercial and Financial awareness.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $144,000 to $198,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors.This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and/or long-term incentive. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview. 

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