Senior Business Architect

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

About the role:
Responsible for defining and modeling the organization's business capabilities, processes, and assists in enterprise-wide strategic planning process. Works with business stakeholders to identify business opportunities, define high level business needs, and assist in developing business cases. Also ensures that business capabilities and processes are optimized and aligned with the broader organization's goals and objectives.  This role will be a key partner during the product commercialization process aligning business outcomes with solution components required to efficiently achieve those outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Facilitate the rigorous identification and documentation of business architecture by participating in a variety of activities to meet the organization’s needs, including: 
  • Gathering information
  • Analyzing business needs
  • Coordinating and executing the transition and ongoing management of business architecture
• Take ownership/stewardship of department business architecture vision and direction, providing communication and education 
• Develop and communicate business needs within department and within systems 
• Facilitate business analysis discussions using business architecture methodology and techniques 
• Apply knowledge of other business departments and systems department structures and processes as necessary 
• Research industry trends in architecture disciplines and uses them to develop IT architecture strategies in support BSC’s enterprise-wide IT strategies.
• Anticipate future architectural risks based on industry trends and business needs at the enterprise level
• Utilize architecture expertise and experience to resolve key business and business process issues.
• Work under general direction and establish business relationships 
• Partner with stakeholders to document and communicate values generated from the new capabilities and processes
• Actively participate in technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes 
• Ensure architectural adherence for the services developed by Enterprise Architecture. 

Required qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline
• 7+ years in business and/or system analysis, design and development
• 3+ years experience in Architecture
• Demonstrated executive presence, comfortable collaborating with senior leaders
• Experience working in product commercialization environment including commercial functions such as marketing, sales, and R&D. 
• Demonstrated ability to create implementation roadmaps that provide realistic progress to achieving a future state.
• Able to articulate in IT and non-IT terms the architecture principles in more than one architecture domain.
• Excellent written and verbal skills including proficiency in tailoring communications depending on stakeholder. 
• Ability to create architectures for complex solutions leveraging approved strategic and standard technologies.
• Apply architecture principles to a given context.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in the medical device or life sciences industry
• Familiarity with and usage of the BIZBOK Guide in practice
• Understand Strategic Planning process and how IT Strategy supports business needs and direction
• Certification
• Strong Program/project management skills and the ability to set clear goals to get desired result
   

Requisition ID: 591713

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Boston Scientific maintains a prohibited substance free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.