The VP, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for designing, developing, implementing and continuously improving strategies for large cross-functional, multi-threaded programs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage subordinate team members and direct IT activities with overall responsibility for the successful operation of assigned areas through lower management levels where the scope and complexity of responsibilities require the integration of multiple disciplines and departments
• Develop ROI with a global scope based business cases by partnering with business stakeholders, developing and implementing strategies for large cross-functional, multi-threaded programs which have several projects within the program. Develop and continuously provide annual updates to strategic plans and multi-year roadmaps in support of AOP. Advocate solution analysis, business requirements, cost benefit analysis, risk assessment and business impact analysis. Assess new technologies and methods to enhance team's ability to execute and meet customer needs
• Set overall IT strategy including efforts to reengineer and optimize business processes and systems by assessing business needs and developing, proposing and implementing technology solution options
• Plan and direct multiple strategic project portfolios activities with highest criticality including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects. Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, alternative solutions, critical path, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with project managers
• Manage defined set of business applications or technologies to ensure performance according to business needs and IT standards
• Negotiate with and manages the performance of hosted and SaaS vendors. Ensures all activity is delivered in compliance with normal policies, procedures, technology standards, security requirements, etc.
• Other incidental duties assigned by Leadership

Education and Experience:
Bachelor's Degree 19 years experience Working experience Required or
Master's Degree or equivalent 16 years experience Working experience Required

Additional Skills:

• Expert understanding of IT procedures with extensive and detailed knowledge of company allows for innovative concepts and promoting new ideas
• Direction tends to be high level and focused on end results with means of accomplishment left to incumbent
• Makes decisions in the face of different alternatives and without formulas or guidelines or with guidelines that are not complete and exhaustive, and which allow room for creativity and judgment
• May provide guidance to lower level personnel
• Determines or effectively recommends course of action after considering potential risks of alternatives
• Considers the cause and effect of activities
• Applies his or her knowledge in following procedures or in determining which procedures to follow or determining whether specified standards are met
• Works independently without close supervision
• Compares and evaluates possible courses of action after considering various possibilities
• Expert understanding of related aspects of IT processes and/or equipment while ensuring processes and/or equipment are optimal across areas of responsibility including identifying applications of functional knowledge and existing methodologies to complex problems
• Demonstrated ability to direct IT teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
• Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of IT to the business
• Serves as core IT partner to senior leaders in Business Units, Functional Groups, Regions and IT.
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
• Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
• Ability to ensure team alignment to strategic goals and initiatives through regular communication
• Ability to coach/mentor team members, including dotted line reports as necessary. Align team members in roles to best take advantage of their strengths and to grow/diversify their skill sets
• Accountable for the performance and results of: (a) a large, strategically important discipline in an extremely large market; or (b) a related disciplines or a medium-sized function in a large market or medium-sized division; or; (c) a medium-sized discipline or department in a major region
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $203,000 to $287,000(highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).

About Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world’s leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 13,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it’s our life’s work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to complying with the requirements and guidance from our government authorities and to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them around the world. As such, all Healthcare Interacting positions require COVID-19 vaccination, which includes anyone who directly interfaces with patients and those who interact with healthcare providers as part of their role. If hired, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in countries where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination. In countries where vaccines are less available, or other requirements exist, we may institute alternate measures that optimize patient safety and healthcare provider safety, which may include regular COVID testing or specific masking requirements.

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