The Senior Director IT Enterprise Architecture role is an integral member of the IT Digital leadership team. This role is responsible for influencing key technology decisions across all major enterprise initiatives by defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture strategy, technology roadmap, and other related functions.
This role collaborates with senior executives, IT leaders, and business stakeholders to align technology with business strategies and achieve measurable impact. Responsible for championing architectural excellence, foster innovation, and strengthening our position as a technology leader by elevating the architecture function, setting technical direction, championing best practices, and mentoring teams to cultivate a culture of innovation and high performance.
In this role, you will…
- Transform business goals into actionable strategies and roadmaps, evolving our technology blueprint and architecture to deliver incremental business value. Shape the technical vision and architectural strategy to achieve business objectives and contribute to the firm's overall technology direction.
- Lead architecture modernization initiatives that deliver robust, secure, and scalable systems, including the integration of emerging technologies such as AI.
- Make architectural decisions that balance short-term project goals with the overarching architecture vision and strategy, enabling effective engineering execution. Engage in hands-on architecture design, architectural reviews, and technical mentorship to ensure innovative and practical solutions.
- Own and drive the architecture practice, focusing on recruiting and managing hands-on architects and engineering leaders to build a high-performing team. Lead by example, modeling the approach of a true engineer through tackling complex architectural challenges, leading critical projects, conducting technical workshops, and providing real-time solutions.
- Advocate and communicate a shared technology vision across the enterprise. Collaborate with executives to define and implement transformation strategies.
- Engage with stakeholders to manage complex products, drive priorities, and set expectations. Ensure seamless co-creation between stakeholders, product, experience, and IT teams to achieve business goals.
- Ensure architecture design is compliant with industry standards and regulations related to data privacy and security.
What you will need to succeed…
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience at the enterprise level across multiple industries such as Biotech and Manufacturing, including technology start-up experience, with a background in architecting, designing, developing, deploying, and operating products and platforms.
- 10+ years of leadership experience driving technology vision, strategy, research, and roadmap development with direct or matrixed teams.
- 5+ years of experience in AI/ML, creating production-grade applications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related major.
- Prior experience with Commercial Digital technologies
- Strong executive-level communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate architecture vision, strategies, decisions, and tradeoffs to a variety of audiences.
- Location: we are looking for someone local to our Westbrook, Maine location that can work hybrid on-site 8 days per month. We are also open to someone willing to relocate.
Why IDEXX?
We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from diseases. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.
So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.
Let’s pursue what matters together.
IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.
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