Chief Enterprise Architect

Position Summary

The Chief Enterprise Architect provides enterprise-wide leadership for technology architecture, standards, and strategy, ensuring technology investments support business priorities and measurable outcomes. This role defines and drives the organization’s target-state architecture and multi-year roadmap, balancing innovation and speed with governance, simplification, security, sustainability, and risk management.

Reporting to the Vice President & Chief Information Officer, the Chief Enterprise Architect leads the Enterprise Architecture function and serves as a strategic advisor to senior technology and business leaders. The role establishes architecture and technology standards, leads architectural and artificial intelligence governance, and helps ensure technology decisions enable growth, optimize cost, reduce complexity, and manage risk. The Chief Enterprise Architect also leads and develops a team of Enterprise Architects responsible for key technology domains.

This position is ideally based in Mentor, Ohio and operates in a hybrid work environment. While proximity to the office is preferred, remote candidates may be considered.

What You'll Do As a Chief Enterprise Architect

• Define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, technology standards, and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead architecture governance and the Architecture Review Board.
• Establish and oversee responsible AI governance, risk, compliance, and technology standards.
• Guide application and technology portfolio rationalization, modernization, and lifecycle decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders on technology investments, emerging technologies, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Support technology strategy and integration for mergers and acquisitions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Enterprise Architecture team while promoting consistent standards and best practices across the organization.

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including technology and architecture leadership experience.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps, standards, and governance.
• Broad expertise across cloud, integration and APIs, data and analytics, cybersecurity, and application lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to influence and communicate with senior executives.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing technical or architecture teams.

Preferred

• Experience with responsible AI governance, risk management, and compliance.
• Experience leading enterprise technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience in medical device, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• Familiarity with FDA, GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 11, SOX, GDPR, or similar regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions and technology integration.
• Enterprise architecture, cloud, cybersecurity, or AI certifications, such as TOGAF

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that support your health, well-being, and financial future.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and vision benefits
• Long/Short Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued educations programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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Pay range for this opportunity is $194,650 - $251,900. This position is also Long-Term-Incentive and Bonus eligible.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio.

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.