Director Enterprise Architecture

Director Enterprise Architecture Location Bannockburn, IL :

About Us:

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Position Purpose:

Responsible for Enterprise Architecture, standards and strategy. Develops, maintains and facilitates the use of IT to enable the company to achieve its business goals by linking IT and services to business strategy and objectives. This position is hybrid to our Bannockburn, IL office.

Key Job Activities:

• Is responsible for development and implementation of the overall enterprise architecture management process, including standards and frameworks, ensuring that all organization wide systems, both legacy and potentially new, are compatible with the current and future architecture and landscape. 20%
• Develops architecture vision to consolidate the portfolio of applications into a coherent stack that enables business strategy 20%
• Accounts for the quality and performance of the overall architecture 10%
• Reviews and approves investment proposals from the demand management process for architectural compliance with target blueprint 10%
• Represents Enterprise Architecture in executive and strategic business meetings 15%
• Serves as decision body to resolve potential architectural conflicts 15%
• Provides functional coaching to solution and infrastructure architects 10%
• Coordinates solution and infrastructure architects to enforce the compliance of applications and infra-structure to the enterprise architecture 10%

Scope of Work:

• Working with the business and IT owners, the Director, Enterprise Architecture will influence and set strategic architectural direction for the company
• He/she will develop and maintain strategic and tactical programs and plans to strategic architectural direction, consulting with IT stakeholders on planning of emerging enterprise shared services
• will develop and maintain strategic and tactical programs and plans to strategic architectural direction, consulting with IT stakeholders on planning of emerging enterprise shared services

Contacts (Internal/External):

• Frequent contact with various Stericycle Personnel; primary contact with IT stakeholders at all levels, including but not limited to Sales, Financial Planning & Analysis, Marketing, Operations/Logistics and Senior Management
• Regular contact with external/3rd party vendors

Financial Responsibility:

• P&L responsibility over respective space

Direct Reports:

• Yes - Enterprise Architecture team

• Financial Responsibility i.e., revenue, assets, budgets, number of accounts, expenditures, etc.

Education:

Preferred Education: in Bachelor`s Degree or Information Systems

Experience (North America):

• Education equivalent to Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, or a related technical discipline or the equivalent in related work experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in IT with progressive responsibility and influence, demonstrating effective communication with all levels of management.
• Three or more years of experience in setting and influencing company-wide strategic architecture / technical direction
• Three or more years of experience with commercial ERP platforms (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as a broad technology knowledge of major retail applications, middleware and platform vendors
• Demonstrated experience in the development of architecture for business programs/projects

Key Competencies (Non-technical Behavioral Skills, i.e. presentation, negotiation, customer service skills):

• Demonstrates the ability to train, mentor and provide ongoing support of architecture best practices to all IT stakeholders.
• Demonstrates strong analytical ability, judgment and problem analysis techniques
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrates the ability to work with teams that are geographically distributed and work across different time zones.
• Demonstrates a desire to make a difference in the business, to work with a highly talented set of peers, and to work on interesting projects
• Demonstrates the ability to supervise and inspire other senior architects

Benefits:

Stericycle currently offers its employees the option to participate in a full range of benefits, including a health care program which includes medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, an employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation and sick time, a 401(k) plan, and an employee stock purchase plan. Participation in some programs requires that employees be regularly scheduled to work a minimum number of hours and/or to have fulfilled a waiting period after they begin employment with Stericycle.

Disclaimer:

The above description is meant to provide a summary of the nature and level of work being performed; it should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements of the job or person. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise. Stericycle will consider requests for workplace accommodations for protected physical or mental limitations in accordance with its human resources policies and local laws.To the extent permissible under local law, and consistent with business necessity, Stericycle reserves the right to modify the content formally or informally, either verbally or in writing, at any time with or without advance notice.