Senior Business Architect, Data Analytics

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-centered medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. For over 60 years, we have established a significant track record around that innovation: Work that allows clinicians worldwide to enhance and save lives. This is an exciting opportunity within Edwards Lifesciences' IT department. We are experiencing massive growth, and this is your chance to make a significant impact. The ideal candidate should have a mix of technical expertise, business understanding, and analytical skills. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to work with an incredible team and assist the team in achieving the mission of delivering actionable insights from data to the business. The chosen candidate will have a crucial role in working with stakeholders to capture insight requirements from the business to make decisions, and also create and design comprehensive solutions that align with those requirements while prioritizing excellent user experiences enabled through modern technology capabilities. Key Responsibilities: - Drive and oversee collection and analysis of stakeholder requirements and architect solutions to meet those requirements. - Lead workshops with key business subject matter experts to turn ideas into tangible solutions through the development of minimum viable product requirements (user stories), personas, and wireframes. - Collaborate with multi-functional stakeholders to determine the best approach to testing (POC/pilot) and designing solutions that align with the business strategy. - Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and improvement; advocating for continuous team learning of portfolio assets, new technologies, and frameworks for analysis and consideration in new solutions. - Prepare, review, and present complex written and verbal materials such as analyses, reports, findings, proposals, and systems training to senior stakeholders. - Prioritize operational excellence and own and be accountable for on-time and on-budget project outcomes while providing progress updates, reporting metrics, and risk mitigations to senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology and comfortable solving and reframing business issues using design and consulting mindset. Also, they should be detail-oriented, possess strong listening, verbal/written communication skills, and be capable of collaborating and overseeing others. - Guide the definition, development, and maintenance of data standards, guidelines, and practices; Guide the design of the data models, in alignment with the solution architecture, to ensure auditability of information assets. - Work closely with and provide requirement specifications to other Data Architects, Data Engineers, ETL, and BI development team to support optimization of the overall design. Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science or related field. - Minimum of ten years of information technology experience (or eight years with a Masters) and at least two years in Data and Analytics domain. - At least two years of experience in an architect role working with cross-functional teams (within IT and/or within the business) on enterprise-level or complex/novel system implementations. - Experience in analytical database platforms and query languages (Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, T-SQL, PL/SQL). Preferred Qualifications: - Experience as a Product Owner in an Agile (Scrum) environment. - Experience with data modeling and related tools (Embarcadero, ERwin, DBArtisan, etc.). - Experience working with data and data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, Cognos, Business Objects). - Experience in life sciences/bio-tech/pharma. - Domain knowledge in finance, sales operations, manufacturing, and/or supply chain. - Experience working in ERP (e.g., JD Edwards, Coupa, Concur) and/or data warehouse projects (data warehouse, data mart etc.). - Experience with enterprise data management technologies & platforms, including database platforms, ETL tools, Business Intelligence (BI) Tools, and SQL. - Experience working specifically in the areas of data management, data governance, data quality management, or as a data steward. - Familiarity with agile product delivery methods and related tools (e.g., Jira). - Experience in a relevant industry (e.g., medical device, pharmaceuticals etc.) or in highly regulated environments. Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a broad range of benefits programs to cater to the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families. For California, the base pay range for this position is $123,000 to $174,000(highly experienced). The final pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, previous experience). Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities. COVID Vaccination Requirement Edwards is committed to adhering to the directions 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 engages 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 provide proof that you have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in countries where it is against the law to mandate vaccination. In countries where vaccines are less available, or other requirements exist, we may implement alternative measures that maximize patient safety and healthcare provider safety, which may include regular COVID testing or specific masking requirements.