Head of Enterprise Architecture

Abbott•Madison, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Abbott Cancer Diagnostics is seeking a Head of Enterprise Architecture (known internally as Sr Manager, Enterprise Architecture) to guide the software ecosystem that powers their cancer diagnostics. This role reports into the IT Software Engineering function and is responsible for setting the architectural vision, standards, and governance to ensure platforms are scalable, secure, and positioned for future growth. The leader will manage a team of architects, aligning solutions, applications, and technology around common standards and disciplined decision-making. As chair of the Architecture Review Board, this individual will bring rigor to technical direction decisions and partner in the IT Program Intake process to evaluate options, risks, and trade-offs. The Head of Enterprise Architecture will define the future-state platform, establish roadmaps, and embed architectural thinking across product teams to advance modern patterns and standards. The ideal candidate will have substantial technical depth, typically 10+ years in IT and 5+ years in an architecture or engineering leadership role, with business acumen to connect technology decisions to measurable outcomes and executive presence to advise senior leaders. Strong collaboration, influencing, and communication skills are essential in a matrixed, cross-functional environment. This role offers an opportunity to apply enterprise architecture leadership to a mission with meaningful impact for patients and the fight against cancer.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or field as outlined in the essential duties; or High School Diploma/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
10+ years of information technology experience or with increasing levels of responsibility for delivering transformative technology solutions and business capabilities.
5+ years of experience in an architecture role or equivalent (e.g. engineering leader).
Demonstrated ability to get to the essence of a new concepts quickly.
Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience delivering innovative technology solutions or business capabilities in the life sciences or pharma industries.
Experience in supply chain/logistics.
Experience in physician or patient customer experience initiatives.

Responsibilities

Establish the mission and vision of the Enterprise Architecture organization to foster a business-oriented culture and mindset driven by continual innovation and improvement techniques.
Develop and control the annual operating expenditure and capital expenditure budgets for Enterprise Architecture to ensure that it’s consistent with the overall strategic objectives of IT and the enterprise and remains within plan.
Build, guide and motivate the Enterprise Architecture organization through coaching and mentoring to become a creative, collaborative and business outcomes focused technology team.
Partner with business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
Define the future-state technology platform needed to support new business models and services and establish the strategic technology roadmaps.
Refine and extend communication plans for architecture at the enterprise level.
Instill architectural thinking into product teams and provide mentoring and guidance; challenge the status quo and promote modern technologies and architectural patterns.
Advise senior leaders on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
Grow the architecture community, bringing together solution/application/technology architects from the engineering teams, with the goal of knowledge sharing, technology standardization, decision making and continuous improvement.
Maintain a strong business acumen and ability to translate technology to potential business impacts.
Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching.
Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong customer focus and executive presence.
Demonstrate a high degree of cross-functional agility using outstanding influencing and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrate excellent organizational and follow up skills with strong attention to detail.
Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
Ability and means to travel between local Abbott Cancer Diagnostics locations.
Ability to travel 15% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.