We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Feb 2026

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Role Overview
The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for leading and maturing the Enterprise Architecture practice across the enterprise. This role provides strategic direction, governance, and architectural leadership to ensure technology investments are aligned with business strategy, enable innovation, reduce complexity, and deliver long-term enterprise value.

This leader owns enterprise-wide architecture vision, standards, governance, and current and future state roadmaps across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains. The role requires a seasoned architecture leader who operates as a trusted advisor to senior IT and business leadership, drives architectural discipline at scale, and influences outcomes across a complex, global organization.

This role also owns the Enterprise Business Architecture capability, including business capability models, value streams, and end-to-end process architectures. Business Architecture serves as a foundational input to enterprise strategy, investment decisions, transformation roadmaps, and landscape rationalization efforts.

In addition, this role is accountable for looking holistically across the enterprise to formulate and drive strategies for large-scale landscape rationalization and technical debt reduction, and for acting as a driving force toward the execution and realization of those strategies in partnership with IT and business leaders.

Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Architecture, Global Functions and SAP COE, this role establishes Enterprise Architecture as a strategic capability that enables speed, simplification, resilience, and disciplined transformation across the enterprise.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Vision

• 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

Business Architecture Leadership

• 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 business architecture standards, methods, and governance integrated with enterprise architecture practices

Enterprise Landscape Rationalization and Technical Debt Reduction

• 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
• Formulate multi-year strategies and roadmaps for application rationalization, platform consolidation, and technical debt reduction
• 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

Architecture Standards, Governance, and Assurance

• 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

Cross-Enterprise Influence and Alignment

• Collaborate across IT value streams, platforms, and business functions to drive adoption of common solutions, shared services, and reusable capabilities
• Influence technology and investment decisions through architectural guidance, trade-off analysis, and long-term impact assessment
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior IT and business leaders on enterprise-wide architecture, modernization, and transformation priorities
• Enable alignment across decentralized teams while supporting effective local execution
• Architecture Practice Leadership and Community
• Build, lead, and mature the Enterprise Architecture practice as a high-impact enterprise capability
• Establish and grow an architecture community of practice that promotes consistency, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Define architecture roles, responsibilities, career paths, and capability expectations across the enterprise
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical leadership to senior architects and the broader architecture community
• Ensure the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of architectural deliverables across programs and domains

Technology Strategy and Innovation Enablement

• Maintain deep awareness of modern enterprise platforms, architectural patterns, and emerging technologies
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and methodologies that can enhance enterprise capabilities, drive Digital Transformation and performance
• Ensure architectural decisions remain technology-agnostic, value-driven, and aligned to long-term enterprise outcomes
• Enable innovation by establishing clear architectural guardrails that accelerate delivery while maintaining integrity

Communication, Influence, and Change Leadership

• Translate complex architectural concepts into clear, concise narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Articulate the value of enterprise architecture in terms of business outcomes, risk reduction, cost optimization, and sustainability
• Drive adoption of architecture standards, business architecture models, and rationalization strategies through strong communication and influence
• Navigate complex organizational dynamics and lead change across a broad range of stakeholders

Qualifications and Experience

Required – Must Have

• 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 or 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

Preferred

• Demonstrated experience formulating and driving large-scale landscape rationalization and technical debt reduction initiatives
• 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

Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate is a strategic and pragmatic enterprise architecture leader who sees the enterprise as a whole and connects strategy to execution. This leader is intellectually curious, unbiased in technology choices, and respected for their ability to influence, mentor, and mobilize teams. They bring strong executive presence, sound judgment, and a relentless focus on simplifying complexity and turning architectural strategy into realized outcomes.

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to ensuring the enterprise evolves with clarity, coherence, and discipline. By strengthening enterprise and business architecture, driving landscape rationalization, and reducing technical debt, the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture enables faster delivery, lower risk, improved resilience, and more intentional technology investment. This role ensures architecture is not only a guiding function, but a driving force behind enterprise transformation and long-term value realization.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$206,400.00 - $309,600.00

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

 

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.