Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2023 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com
Key Responsibilities
- Work proactively and holistically lead and support EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), and shared application services.
- Works closely with the Tech Business Partners, product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the technology life cycle
- Design and develop important artefacts of High-level architecture, High Level Design, contribute and review Low Level Design that align with architectural governance and standards
- Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
- Create deliverables for managing the Convatec’s portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.
- Work closely with the program management office (PMO) to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle.
- Follow the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
- Facilitate the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations,
- Support product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information.
- Responsible for analysis, designing, implementing, and integrating information systems to fit within existing systems infrastructure and security standards.
- Identify the potential technology innovations and engage with different enterprise business leaders and units and attend to their computing needs and requirements in order to design solutions that achieve business goals while also working within existing and/or legacy systems.
- Contribute and lead on ensuring Privacy, Security and AI by design.
- Provide expert guidance to the engineering teams and act as the TDA and Solution Governance for Architecture.
- Evaluation of feasibility and business cases for implementation steps towards target architecture.
- Ensure adherence to regulations and industry standards while maintaining alignment with regional regulations.
- Work with system integators and software technology provider to understand technology & product roadmap.
Key requirements
- Experienced in software engineering /technology design and implementation.
- Solution architecture experience in ERP (SAP preferred) / Commercial / MARTECH/ R&D technologies / integration tools and patterns (ESB).
- Excellent understanding of architecture models like C4.
- Experience working in diverse, global teams.
- Can lead and manage strategically important technology projects.
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and data analytics.
- Good understanding of using and leveraging enterprise architecture management tools (e.g LeanIX).
- Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
- Good knowledge of any development languages like React, JavaScrip node.js, .net, Python, C# etc.
- Good understanding of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle etc.
- Understanding of IT standards and controls.
- Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and DevOps).
Examples of day to day decisions
- Technical design decision e.g. Where to use API instead of standard database operations
- Using a SaaS based solution over Onprem self hosted solutions
- Deciding if High level Architecture is required or not
- If an existing solution meets the requirement or if we need to build / buy new solution
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What We Do
At Convatec, #ForeverCaring is our promise to patients & healthcare providers, as we deliver pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch.
