Enterprise Architect (Remote - United States)

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/legal/website-privacy-statement/applicant-privacy/ applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Job Description: Enterprise Architect (Solventum) 3M Health Care is now Solventum At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you. The Impact You’ll Make in this Role The Enterprise Architect is a key leadership role in the Global IT organization and a visible change agent that drives business and technology innovation and alignment. This role helps build and facilitate the federated Enterprise Architecture team to deliver a unified 3‑year enterprise technology roadmap that reduces duplication, increases organizational agility, and accelerates business growth and transformation. This role facilitates EA team activities including designing, documenting, and governing the enterprise IT architecture. The Enterprise Architect leads architecture consulting efforts to investigate and align technology solutions with business strategies, evaluating new and emerging technologies, creating architectural blueprints, and assuring technology solutions are scalable and supportable for the long term. The Architect also leads Architecture Reviews Board activities that shape technology innovation and govern technology adoption globally. You will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by: Architecture Practice Management: Develop and facilitate Solventum’s enterprise architecture practice by maturing EA methods, aligning IT and business strategy, managing architect team delivery, and promoting EA services across the organization. Architecture Governance: Coordinate, create, publish, and measure adoption of architectural artifacts (standards, policies, principles) across technology domains and technology asset classes. Architecture Reviews: Facilitate Architecture Review Board activities ensuring responsive processes, rightsizing architecture reviews, and strengthening engagement of technical teams, business leaders, and program/project managers. Solution Architecture: Collaborate with business stakeholders to define and guide the architecture design of enterprise technology assets including applications (SAP, CRM, MES, PLM, QMS, etc.), data and integrations, infrastructure, and security systems to align with strategic goals of the enterprise and to establish an integrated technology landscape. Technology Lifecycle Management: Conduct research and assess and evangelize new technologies where appropriate. Drive technology asset lifecycle and change management for implemented technologies. Delivery Management: Manage individual architects and architecture teams in the creation and publication of detailed architectural artifacts and technical solutions, assuring on time and on budget delivery. Your Skills and Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or higher AND ten (10) years of Enterprise Architect and/or Technical Architect experience in a private, public, government or military environment OR High School Diploma/GED AND fourteen (14) years of Enterprise Architect and/or Technical Architect experience in a private, public, government or military environment AND In addition to the above requirements, the following skills and experiences are also required: Ente

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