Enterprise Solutions Architect

Requisition ID: 7309

Job Title: Enterprise Solutions Architect

Job Country: United States (US)

Here at Avanos Medical, we passionately believe in three things:

• Making a difference in our products, services and offers, never ceasing to fight for groundbreaking solutions in everything we do;
• Making a difference in how we work and collaborate, constantly nurturing our nimble culture of innovation;
• Having an impact on the healthcare challenges we all face, and the lives of people and communities around the world.

At Avanos you will find an environment that strives to be independent and different, one that supports and inspires you to excel and to help change what medical devices can deliver, now and in the future.

Avanos is a medical device company focused on delivering clinically superior breakthrough solutions that will help patients get back to the things that matter. We are committed to creating the next generation of innovative healthcare solutions which will address our most important healthcare needs, such as reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we develop, manufacture and market recognized brands in more than 90 countries. For more information, visit www.avanos.com.

The Role

The Enterprise Solution Architect defines and governs enterprise technology solutions that align business strategy with Avanos' technology landscape and long-term objectives. With SAP S/4HANA as Avanos' core ERP platform, this role serves as the technical design authority across enterprise applications, business processes, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, and security. The role develops roadmaps, leads cross-functional solution design, guides technology investments, and provides technology leadership for mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and divestitures.

Responsibilities

Architecture and Strategy

• Define enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps, including the strategic roadmap for SAP S/4HANA and its supporting ecosystem.
• Assess the technology landscape and identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, standardization, reuse, and cost optimization.
• Translate business capabilities into current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Evaluate technology investments and recommend whether platforms should be retained, enhanced, consolidated, replaced, or retired.

Solution Design and Implementation

• Lead end-to-end enterprise solution design with SAP S/4HANA as the core ERP, integrated with enterprise applications, data, cloud services, infrastructure, and security.
• Lead cross-functional SAP solution design with strong depth in Supply Chain and Order-to-Cash, ensuring alignment across Finance, Procure-to-Pay, Manufacturing, Quality, Warehouse Management, Transportation, master data, integrations, controls, and reporting.
• Promote standard SAP functionality and ensure designs address data integrity, performance, availability, recovery, scalability, and supportability.
• Provide architectural oversight through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Review vendor proposals and solution designs for business and technical fit, cost, risk, integration impact, and alignment with enterprise standards.

Technology Leadership and Collaboration

• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to business and IT leadership and communicate complex decisions in clear business terms.
• Provide technical direction to SAP functional leads, developers, integration specialists, data teams, cloud engineers, infrastructure teams, and implementation partners.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews, resolve architectural issues, and promote consistent engineering practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, cloud services, and digital platforms, based on business value, maturity, risk, and organizational readiness.

Governance and Compliance

• Lead architecture governance, including design reviews, standards compliance, technology lifecycle management, and exception management.
• Ensure solutions comply with corporate security, privacy, data, quality, and regulatory requirements, including SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, GxP, computer system validation, electronic records and signatures, and data integrity.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, platform dependencies, resiliency concerns, and lifecycle issues, and define mitigation plans.
• Maintain architecture decisions, standards, diagrams, roadmaps, and supporting documentation in partnership with cybersecurity, quality, compliance, privacy, legal, and internal audit teams.

Technology Leadership for Mergers Acquisitions and Divestitures

• Lead technology architecture activities for mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and divestitures, including IT due diligence and risk assessment.
• Develop Day 1, transition-state, and target-state integration or separation architectures and roadmaps.
• Assess SAP landscapes, business processes, applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, integrations, customizations, cybersecurity, compliance, licensing, technical debt, costs, and dependencies.
• Recommend SAP and enterprise technology integration, migration, consolidation, separation, retention, or retirement strategies.
• Partner with business, finance, legal, operations, quality, cybersecurity, and program teams to support transaction objectives, business continuity, and organizational readiness.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10 or more years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, technology strategy, or related roles.
• Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA architecture, solution design, implementation, integration, and technology roadmap development.
• Deep experience in SAP Supply Chain and Order-to-Cash, with strong cross-functional knowledge of Finance and Controlling, Procure-to-Pay, Manufacturing, Quality Management, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, and enterprise master data.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate cross-functional SAP designs, identify downstream impacts, and resolve dependencies across processes, data, integrations, controls, and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, enterprise integration patterns, cloud architecture, identity and access management, data architecture, security, resiliency, and technology lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to influence technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Position will follow Avanos’ Hybrid Schedule with requirements to be onsite Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting IT due diligence, integration, carve-out, or separation activities associated with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Experience in a regulated medical device, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or healthcare organization.
• Knowledge of SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, GxP, computer system validation, electronic records and signatures, and data integrity requirements.
• Experience with SAP BTP, APIs, middleware, EDI, Salesforce, Azure, data and analytics platforms, and external logistics solutions integrated with SAP S/4HANA.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Avanos Medical is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

IMPORTANT: If you are a current employee of Avanos or a current Avanos Contractor, please apply here.

Join us at Avanos
Join us and you can make a difference in our products, solutions and our culture. Most of all, you can make a difference in the lives, people, and communities around the world.

Make your career count
Our commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of others begins with our employees – through a comprehensive and competitive range of benefits. We provide more than just a salary – our Total Rewards package encompasses everything you receive as an employee; your pay, health care benefits, retirement plans and work/life benefits.

Avanos offers a generous 401(k) employer match of 100% of each pretax dollar you contribute on the first 4% and 50% of the next 2% of pay contributed with immediate vesting.

Avanos also offers the following:

benefits on day 1

free onsite gym

onsite cafeteria

HQ region voted 'best place to live' by USA Today

uncapped sales commissions