Enterprise Architect

**Company Description**
Founded in Munich, Germany in 1989, Brainlab develops, manufactures and markets software-driven medical technology, enabling access to improved, more efficient, less-invasive patient treatments. Our key to success is our creative, talented and hard-working team, which consists of around 2400 dedicated and inspiring individuals in 25 locations worldwide. To succeed in reaching our targets, we are seeking committed colleagues who can stand behind our core values curious, authentic and useful.

As a key member of the Digital & IT department, you will design and implement Brainlab’s overall IT architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and supporting transformation initiatives. You will manage architecture standards, optimize systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and drive innovation.

**Your main tasks are**:

- ** Strategic Planning**: Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture (EA) framework to align IT strategy with business objectives. Define long-term technology roadmaps and assess emerging technologies for business relevance. Prepare and deliver presentations to executive leadership and the board on architecture initiatives.
- ** Transform enterprise architecture**: Establish cutting-edge enterprise architecture patterns to harmonize systems, standardize IT processes and technologies, and manage complex, established workflows. Your mission will be to transform these into simplified, streamlined, fully digital processes that boost operational efficiency and foster alignment across the organization.
- ** Think beyond IT**: Bridge the gap between IT, R&D and Production to create an enterprise architecture, that includes the needs of a medical technology manufacturing company, e.g. MES/MOS or PLM and other related systems.
- ** Performance Optimization**: Drive continuous improvement by analyzing the performance of IT systems and recommending enhancements. Ensure solutions are cost-effective, scalable, and meet performance expectations.
- ** Ensure Governance**: Establish and enforce standards, guidelines, and policies for architecture across the enterprise. Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure solutions adhere to architectural principles.
- ** Risk Management**: Identify and address architectural risks and ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards. Monitor technology trends to mitigate risks of obsolescence.
- ** Leadership, Integration & Collaboration**: Lead cross-functional teams in the design and implementation of enterprise-wide technology solutions. Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external vendors to understand requirements, break up “silos”, support integration and deliver scalable solutions. Act as a bridge between technical teams and business leaders to articulate architectural strategies and solutions.
- ** Build data & business intelligence capabilities**: Support the development of our data, business intelligence and machine learning capabilities, promote data-driven thinking, and transform complex, established processes into streamlined, digitally optimized ones that create real added value. Use data pragmatically to simplify, harmonize and elevate our customer data utilization to create a fully integrated customer journey

**Qualifications**
- 5-8 years of experience in IT strategy, IT management or a related field and minimum of 4 years in Enterprise Architecture Management, or a related field
- University degree in IT, Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred
- Industry knowledge in health or high-tech industries as well as manufacturing companies is a plus
- Strong technical expertise, in-depth knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, or FEAF. Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premises technologies. Strong understanding of system integration, middleware, and APIs
- Regulatory and Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with industry standards, security frameworks, and compliance regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX
- Strong strategic and entrepreneurial thinking, with ability to align technology solutions with business goals and long-term strategy. Skilled in analyzing complex systems and identifying optimization opportunities
- Proven ability to lead diverse project teams and influence decision-making across all levels of the organization. Excellent collaboration skills to work with business, IT, and vendor partners.
- Experience in project management as well as strong capability to analyze business and technical requirements and develop creative, efficient solutions. Competence in identifying risks and proposing mitigation strategies.
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills in both English and German, with an ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

**Additional Information**
- A mutually-supportive, international team
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